50 ★ States

ALABAMA Ider: A small- town police chief who died of COVID- 19 loved the community he served and regretted his decision against getting vaccinated, his widow said. Buddy Crabtree died Saturday, news outlets report.

ALASKA Anchorage: The board of the Alaska Railroad has voted to rescind a requirement for all employees to be vaccinated against COVID- 19.

ARIZONA Phoenix: Former Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes said he was questioned about the 2020 election Monday by investigators from the office of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who has pledged to review the findings of state Senate Republicans’ partisan review of last year’s vote.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: Gov. Asa Hutchinson has scheduled a Feb. 8 special election for a vacant state Senate seat, with the primary in the typically red district Dec. 14.

CALIFORNIA Huntington Beach: A month after an offshore oil spill, environmental advocates say they plan to sue the federal government over the failure to review and update plans for platforms off the coast.

COLORADO Denver: A ballot initia

tive that would have allowed residents to sue the city for a slow response to homeless encampment cleanups was amended in a court ruling Sunday, after thousands had already cast mail ballots.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: The interim commissioner of the state Department of Labor told legislators Monday that her agency is barred by state and federal law from granting a blanket waiver to thousands of workers who are now being billed for overpayment of unemployment benefits.

DELAWARE Dover: State lawmakers voted Monday to approve new legislative district maps. Some GOP senators expressed concern that more people were crammed into southern areas represented by Republicans.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: The Rev. Jesse Jackson was hospitalized Monday after he fell during a visit to Howard University, where students have been protesting housing conditions, according to a statement from his nonprofit, the Rainbow Push Organization.

FLORIDA Jacksonville: An educator was arrested on a child abuse charge against a student just two days after being named a Teacher of the Year at

Darnell- Cookman Middle/ High.

GEORGIA Atlanta: Donald Trump was threatening Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger when he asked him to help “find” enough votes to overturn his loss in the state, Raffensperger says in a new book.

HAWAII Honolulu: The state’s public schools are having trouble finding substitute teachers amid lingering concerns about the coronavirus. Of a daily average of 1,200 requests for subs statewide, nearly 150 go unfilled, the Honolulu Star- Advertiser reports.

IDAHO Boise: Lawmakers are seeking technology companies to appraise federal land in real time to find out how much money the lawmakers think the federal government should be paying the state in property taxes if the land were privately owned.

ILLINOIS Chicago: The city’s public school system has seen another enrollment drop, with 10,000 fewer students this academic year.

INDIANA Evansville: An Indian rhinoceros that was a star attraction at the Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden has been euthanized.

IOWA Palo: Alliant Energy says it will invest $ 750 million in 400 megawatts of solar power generation and 75 megawatts of battery storage in eastern Iowa, for the state’s largest solar project to date.

KANSAS Topeka: Six women in the state House and a former member are calling on Rep. Aaron Coleman to resign after being charged with domestic battery and ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: Growing numbers of vaccinated Kentuckians have contracted COVID- 19 and ended up in hospitals, signaling the importance of getting a booster, Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: A reexamined autopsy ordered by the FBI in the 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene has rejected the Louisiana State Police claim that a car crash caused his fatal injuries, narrowing prosecutors’ focus on the troopers seen on video beating, stunning and dragging the Black motorist.

MAINE Bar Harbor: Acadia National Park has reopened the entire 6- mile Eagle Lake Loop, completing rehabilitation of the 45- mile network of carriage roads in the park.

MARYLAND Annapolis: The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has named as its president and CEO Hilary Harp, of the National Wildlife Federation.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s service for people with disabilities is dropping its current ride- booking software in response to complaints of poor service.

MICHIGAN Hartford: Two more school districts – Saranac and Hartford – are dropping Indian nicknames and images.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: The judge who presided over the trial of Derek Chauvin has made public the names of jurors who convicted the former police officer of murder in the death of George Floyd.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Gov. Tate Reeves says he wants legislators to make more changes in a proposed medical marijuana program, tightening limits on the amount patients could buy and curbing THC content.

MISSOURI Jefferson City: Two weeks after a newspaper found a security flaw on a state website, the Parson administration has hired a company that performs data breach and credit monitoring services.

MONTANA Helena: A disruption in the U. S. aluminum supply has put a temporary stop to traditional license plate manufacturing in the state.

NEBRASKA Omaha: Facing staff shortages, public schools in the city have turned to bilingual high school students to interpret for families during report card conferences.

NEVADA Carson City: Incomplete data provided by prison officials is prompting questions and frustration two years after the Legislature passed a law to count incarcerated people in their home communities.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Bedford: Nearly 200 absentee ballots from the town that weren’t counted in the 2020 election would not have changed the outcomes of any races, the state attorney general’s office said.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: Food banks across the state are facing increased prices and difficulty sourcing and transporting food amid the supply chain logjam of the pandemic.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: Firearms are being banned at the state Capitol building with few exceptions starting in early December.

NEW YORK New York: Mayor Bill de Blasio has filed paperwork to create a fundraising committee for a possible gubernatorial run.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday vetoed legislation that would have required other elected leaders to sign off on long- term emergency declarations.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: State corrections officials say coronavirus cases among inmates at the North Dakota State Penitentiary have soared to the highest level to date.

OHIO Cleveland: The city’s police department plans to rescind its policy requiring officers to notify crime victims before sending low- level, nonviolent offenders to a county diversion program.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A total of 31 tornadoes in the state last month was a record high for October dating to 1950, according to the National Weather Service.

OREGON Salem: A judge has found that new congressional district maps passed by Democratic state lawmakers meet all legal criteria, with little evidence they amount to blatant partisan gerrymandering.

PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: City employees who are not fully vaccinated against COVID- 19 by Dec. 22 could be fired, the mayor announced.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state plans to offer businesses struggling to find enough workers up to $ 5,000 to help them fill positions left vacant by the pandemic, Gov. Daniel McKee said Tuesday.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Gov. Henry McMaster plans to announce he wants to spend the last $ 17 million of his COVID- 19 education relief money to fully pay for anyone to go to a technical college for two years to train to enter high- demand jobs.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Sanford Health, the state’s largest private employer, began suspending employees who have not been vaccinated against COVID- 19 on Monday.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Public schools will have to jump through even more hoops if they want to implement mask mandates under legislation approved in the dead of night by the GOP- controlled General Assembly. Gov. Bill Lee has held off on promising to sign the measure but has yet to veto a bill in his time in office.

TEXAS Houston: Saying the death row inmate hasn’t clearly proven his innocence, a judge recommended no new trial for Rodney Reed, whose supporters point to evidence they say raises serious doubts about his guilt.

UTAH Salt Lake City: An independent commission tasked with redrawing voting districts has presented a variety of proposed maps to state lawmakers.

VERMONT Montpelier: The Vermont Agency of Education has created a new, free program to help students build social and emotional learning skills – part of an effort to address the impact of the pandemic on kids.

VIRGINIA Roanoke: Three adults have died from complications of a hepatitis A outbreak linked to local restaurant chain Famous Anthony’s, health officials say.

WASHINGTON Seattle: A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed by the mother of a 19year- old man who was fatally shot last year after a police precinct was vacated during a protest.

WEST VIRGINIA Sharples: A coal miner died in an accident Monday, Gov. Jim Justice said. It was the sixth coal mining- related fatality in the state this year.

WISCONSIN Madison: Vel Phillips, Wisconsin’s first Black secretary of state, will be honored with a statue on state Capitol grounds, a legislative board decided Monday.