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■ Tommy Tuberville, the former football coach facing former Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Alabama U.S. Senate Republican primary runoff, no longer has a campaign bus after it burst into flames on a DeKalb County interstate during a maintenance test drive.

■ Tim Slavin, historical and cultural affairs director in Sussex County, Del., said an 8-foot-tall whipping post in the courthouse square that was used for public floggings until 1952 and was removed Wednesday didn’t “adequately account for the traumatic legacy it represents, and that still reverberates among communities of color in our state.”

■ Jeff Searfoss, chief deputy of Powhatan County, Va., said Gladys Townsend, a white, 63-year-old woman who told police she had been assaulted by a Black couple, was charged with filing a false report after investigators determined that no assault occurred.

■ Jarvis Dortch, 39, of Raymond, Miss., a Democrat who has served as a Mississippi legislator since 2016, submitted his resignation and will become director of the state’s American Civil Liberties Union chapter.

■ Sonya McKinstry, a City Council member in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said college students in the city have hosted parties that included guests infected with covid-19 and money put in a pot that would go to whoever tested positive first.

■ Kenton Thompson, 31, accused of biting off the tip of an officer’s nose as he struggled with police in Gainesville, Ga., as he was being taken into custody on a drug charge, now faces aggravated battery and other counts, police said.

■ Greg Johnsman, co-owner of Geechie Boy Mill, a family-owned operation in South Carolina that makes locally grown and milled grits, said that because of customer backlash, the company is changing its name, derived from a dialect once spoken by former slaves.

■ Alfredo Ramirez, police director of Miami-Dade County, Fla., said he has fired a police officer and has asked prosecutors to investigate after the officer struck a woman who was yelling at him inside the terminal at Miami International Airport.

■ Herman Cain, 74, a 2012 Republican presidential candidate who attended President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa and traveled to Arizona where coronavirus cases are spiking, is being treated at an Atlanta-area hospital for covid-19, a spokesman said.