TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — An assisted living center is closing in Traverse City, highlighting the demand for workers in the field and the scramble to find new housing for people suddenly facing uncertainty.

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (AP) — A 37-year-old Maine woman has been rescued by game wardens after falling in Aroostook State Park in Presque Isle, officials say.

REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The 17th District Court in Redford Township has been awarded $48,500 in grants for its Veterans Treatment Court and for planning for a new hybrid DWI/drug court.

BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — Residents complaining about foul odors from a sugar beet processor in Bay City have a lost a key decision at the Michigan Court of Appeals.

CAHOKIA HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Metro East community leaders hope the federal infrastructure deal will help address decades of flooding and sewage problems.

CHICAGO (AP) — Organizers of an effort to restore North Pond in Chicago's largest park hope to reach their fundraising goal and begin work by early next year.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An increased infant mortality rate among Black newborn children contributed to what Indiana health officials found was a slightly higher overall infant mortality rate in the state during 2020.

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Police officers in central Florida fatally shot a man who pointed a gun at them early Sunday as they were investigating reports of a suspicious car parked in a construction zone along Interstate 4, authorities said.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Dr. TaQuina Warren – better known as “Dr. Tee” – treats her patients like family, oftentimes inducting them as her newfound relatives when they enter her Smyrna pharmacy.

WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — The local Salvation Army has secured about 300 volunteers to participate in its 2021 Red Kettle fundraising campaign — a record high.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The newest facility in Virginia Commonwealth University Health’s sprawling enterprise is a 17-story, $384 million outpatient tower in downtown Richmond. It opens Dec. 6, consolidates at least seven other buildings’ worth of services into one, and expands the capabilities…

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — As a former case manager and soup kitchen cook, Urbana assistant coach John Jefferson knows the value of giving back to the community.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's big fall hunting seasons ended for the year on Saturday.

PARIS (AP) — France is inducting Josephine Baker — Missouri-born cabaret dancer, French World War II spy and civil rights activist — into its Pantheon, the first Black woman honored in the final resting place of France’s most revered luminaries.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's governor is hosting the annual holiday celebration and tree lighting at the State House.

BOSTON (AP) — Proposed regulations of autocycles will be on the schedule when Massachusetts state lawmakers hold a virtual public hearing Tuesday.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sixty years ago, a group of Black students was arrested and jailed for peacefully studying at the white-only Jackson Municipal Public Library.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont's 16-day rifle deer hunting season is wind downing.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Department of Education is offering competitive grants to public schools and public charter schools to set up robotics teams and participate in contests.

OGUNQUIT, Maine (AP) — A Maine art museum has received one of the largest gifts in its history and is renaming a gallery after the donors.

ALBURGH, Vt. (AP) — Two men are dead and a third injured following a shooting in the town of Alburgh, the Vermont State Police said Sunday.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State wildlife biologists are again proposing a ban on the use of trail cameras in hunting a few months after they pulled the proposal to further survey hunters after some initial backlash.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — The devastation starts on the western slope. Many of the cabins that once lined the highway between here and Sacramento are now gone. Instead, brick and stone chimneys stand sentinel, visible through blackened toothpick trees that dot the mountainsides. Gray a…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Growing up in Broward County, Triston Williams had his heart set on a sports-based future.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — After three campaigns spanning close to four years, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is about to become South Florida’s newest member of Congress, after besting a slew of prominent elected officials. She’s wasting no time.

HUBBARD LAKE, Mich. (AP) — A century of stories, memories and camaraderie lies between the walls of the Little North Hunt Club lodge.

PEKIN, Ill. (AP) — Built in 1862, a historic home in Pekin currently serves as both the Crossroads Programs Inc. counseling center and as The Mansion on Walnut events center.

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) — When the sky is clear, sunlight spills through the towering, south-facing windows on the top floors of McGregors Furniture and Mattress in Marshalltown.

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — A call comes in when you’re at your kid’s birthday party. It’s a wildfire. You quickly grab your gear and head out to the scene of the fire. Such is the life of a firefighter.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — What was once a cubicle farm is now fodder for a freshly flourishing high school athletic opportunity adopted by Grand Island Senior High: Girls wrestling.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — School lunches have become one of the many areas being impacted by national supply chain issues, and local school districts are struggling to get a hold of needed items.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police in Beverly Hills were a standoff Saturday night with a vehicle parked in the middle of a major intersection.

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — It started with a need for structure.

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — This year’s Alabama Education Association “Be A Champion and Read Contest” was full of firsts.

BRASELTON, Ga. (AP) — A new $10 million hospice house planned for the Northeast Georgia Health System was inspired by the Community Hospice House in Merrimack, New Hampshire, where Diane Stephens’ father received his end-of-life care.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — There’s been a new addition to the family since Bill and Shirley Shaffstall said “I do” two years ago.

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — The Southern Oaks Elementary School leadership and education team did not want students to miss out on an opportunity to learn about the indigenous people of the United States before celebrating Native American Heritage Day on Friday, Nov. 26.

NINETY SIX, S.C. (AP) — Rolling mounds of earth spread out before Joshua Manley on his first day as the Ninety Six National Historic Site’s superintendent — 245 years worth of American history baked into the soil.

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jonathan Andrew Curling was born in Utah and lived in 13 places over the next 16 years. Although he attended Heritage High School in only the second semester of his sophomore year, the teen who died in a July accident left a lasting impact here.

GARY, Ind. (AP) — Indiana University Northwest Adjunct Professor Chelsea Whittington was teaching an introductory computer and social media class as part of IUN’s Senior University when a student casually introduced himself.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Before recently passing the state bar exam and joining a local law firm, Tristan Gruspier had a very different career in which he served as a goodwill ambassador of the United States in a selective unit that prides itself on excellence and being the face of the Army …

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A young Mississippi hunter had his sights set on harvesting his first buck this season, but a missed shot with a crossbow seemed to be a huge setback. However, prayer, perseverance and his dad’s guidance paid off with a 145-inch trophy.

RUSTON, La. (AP) — Steven Ensminger Jr. leaned forward in the visitor’s press box. Play sheet at the ready. Eyes transfixed on the field.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A security guard has died after he was shot while he protected a San Francisco Bay Area television news crew covering a smash-and-grab theft, part of a rash of organized retail crime in the region.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than $1.4 million had been raised as of Saturday for a man who spent 43 years behind bars before a judge overturned his conviction in a triple killing.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — As Oregon prepares to take in approximately 1,200 Afghan refugees in the next 12 months, state lawmakers are asking the Legislature’s emergency board for an additional $18 million to expand services and capacity.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 20-year-old UNLV student has died several days after collapsing and being hospitalized shortly after participating in a Nov. 19 charity boxing match.

LAUDERHILL, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has begun a process to revoke a South Florida assisted living home's license after a 69-year-old woman who went missing ended up dead in a car in the parking lot.

WICHITA,Kan. (AP) — A 59-year-old woman who was found unresponsive during Friday's fire at the Broadmoor at Chelsea apartments in north Wichita has died, said Wichita Fire Department Battalion Chief Jose Ocadiz.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A stretch of a street in west Tuscaloosa now recognizes Investigator Dornell Cousette, a police officer killed in 2019 while trying to take a suspect into custody.