In the news

■ Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado, praised the “creativity and ingenuity” of the state’s plan to auction off the rights to license plates with cannabis-themed phrases, including “BONG,” “GANJA,” and “ISIT420,” in a fundraiser for the Colorado Disability Funding Committee.

■ Messod Bendayan, a police spokesman in Daytona Beach, Fla., said investigators believe they have identified the driver of a gray SUV seen in security footage crashing through a traffic arm and jumping a drawbridge over the Halifax River as its ramps were being raised.

■ Larry Brown, the director of the Emergency Management Agency in Wilcox County, Ga., said the pilot of a crop-duster was killed when his aircraft hit some heavy-duty power lines, causing the plane to go down.

■ Kay Ivey, the governor of Alabama, signed a bill naming the sweet potato as the official state vegetable, an idea that was originally submitted to the state’s Legislature by a home-school class, according to the bill.

■ Louis Goffinet, 27, a teacher from Mansfield, Conn., who raised $41,000 through two fundraisers on Facebook to help hundreds of his struggling neighbors get groceries during the pandemic, said he was shocked when he received a tax form from the social media company stating that he could owe $16,000 in income taxes on the money.

■ Stancy Bond, the outgoing school board president in Savannah, Mo., said after months of dueling petitions over the high school’s mascot that the board made a compromise to keep the school’s “Savages” nickname but phase out the use of American Indian imagery.

■ Elvis Reyes, 56, of Brandon, Fla., was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to charging migrants to file fraudulent immigration documents and intercepting communications from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to conceal the fraud.

■ Damione Brock, an inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, was found guilty in a drug conspiracy case in which he arranged the delivery of methamphetamine into the prison using two couriers, including a female guard, according to prosecutors.

■ Ernie Trakas, 70, a councilman in St. Louis County, Mo., said he wasn’t injured when his vehicle was shot on a highway in what police are describing as a possible case of road rage, and the incident “reminded me that violence impacts everyone in our region.”