50 ★ States

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ALASKA emergency Juneau: public The health city order issued mandating an as that of Saturday. all bars close At least indoor 13 people service have had confirmed cases of the coronavirus after one large gathering that many local bartenders attended in late August, KTOO-FM reports.

ARIZONA Phoenix: The VRBO vacation rental site says it is implementing a monthslong ban on one-night rentals in the state in response to concerns about large gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: The state reported a new daily record for confirmed coronavirus cases Friday with 1,107, surpassing the one-day record increase set a week prior.

CALIFORNIA Sacramento: With millions of people out of work in the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law giving tax breaks to small businesses that hire more workers by Dec. 1. Businesses of 100 employees or fewer would get a $1,000 credit for the net increase of each new worker.

COLORADO Boulder: Enrollment at the University of Colorado Boulder for incoming freshmen is expected to drop by more than 12% this year, contributing to the additional $25 million budget shortfall amid the pandemic, officials said.

CONNECTICUT Storrs: University of Connecticut and local health officials have ordered about 700 students living in an off-campus apartment complex to quarantine for two weeks after tracing several COVID-19 cases to homes there.

DELAWARE Dover: The state is expanding access to free coronavirus testing. Gov. John Carney announced Friday that Delaware is shifting testing from mobile sites to 19 permanent sites across the state that can handle a greater volume of testing. The shift will take place beginning Monday.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: The Art All Night show, a multiday event curated to celebrate artists and inspire aspiring artists, has gone virtual, WUSA-TV reports. Kristi Whitfield, director of the D.C. Department of Small and Local Development, said the shift to an online model for the event that started Sunday and runs through Sept. 26 was made in an effort to shield as many people as possible from the coronavirus.

FLORIDA Miami: Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that the state’s two most-populous counties will loosen some stringent regulations on businesses and set the stage for their schools to resume classroom instruction. DeSantis said Miami-Dade and Broward counties on Monday will become the last in the Sunshine State to move into Phase 2 of the economic recovery program.

GEORGIA Atlanta: State court judges may begin calling grand juries to consider indictments, as courts take another step toward resuming trials that were suspended due to the pandemic, Georgia Chief Justice Harold Melton said.

HAWAII Honolulu: Lt. Gov. Josh Green has tested positive for the coronavirus. The deputy governor has been one of the top officials in the state’s effort to suppress the spread of the virus.

IDAHO Boise: Gov. Brad Little on Friday restored $99 million in K-12 education funding he cut earlier this year amid budget shortfall concerns due to the pandemic.

ILLINOIS Peoria: A civic center is seeking about $4 million to keep afloat during the coronavirus pandemic that has caused the facility to lay off staff and lose money. The financial woes for the Peoria Civic Center began when the state ordered it shut in March due to the virus outbreak, which led to it absorbing a $250,000 loss and cutting staff from 350 to 16.

INDIANA Indianapolis: Lawmakers are preparing to partially move some of their 2021 legislative session activity out of the Statehouse over coronavirus concerns.

IOWA Iowa City: State officials have granted the city’s public schools a two-week extension to teach all classes online as the district seeks to avoid the spread of the coronavirus among students and staff.

KANSAS Topeka: A mostly Republican state council voted Friday to extend Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s emergency declaration providing services to combat the coronavirus in Kansas, but only after language was added clarifying that the governor doesn’t intend to use her authority to close businesses as she did in the spring.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: A prominent infectious disease specialist who was hailed by the governor as a “front line hero” has died after a nearly four-month battle against COVID-19. Dr. Rebecca Shadowen, who tested positive for the virus May 13, died Friday night, Med Center Health in Bowling Green said.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: Bars in a handful of parishes will be allowed to reopen under new, looser coronavirus restrictions announced Friday by Gov. John Bel Edwards.

MAINE Portland: A federal appeals court will make a ruling about whether rules designed to prevent spread of the coronavirus in the state are unconstitutional. The restrictions applied by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills have been the subject of three federal lawsuits, and federal judges in Maine have ruled in favor of the governor each time.

MARYLAND Annapolis: Gov. Larry Hogan says the state will be the first member of a multistate coalition to purchase a large amount of rapid COVID-19 antigen tests. Maryland will buy 250,000 antigen tests at a cost of about $8 million, or roughly $30 per test.

MASSACHUSETTS Worcester: School officials are asking the city to explore the creation of a municipal broadband network after many families were unable to access online schooling during the pandemic.

MICHIGAN East Lansing: Health officials are strongly recommending that Michigan State University students living on or near the school’s East Lansing campus self-quarantine immediately because of an outbreak of COVID-19. At least a third of the 342 people affiliated with the university who have tested positive for the virus since Aug. 24 attended parties or social gatherings, the Ingham County Health Department said Saturday.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: State health officials on Sunday confirmed 741 new cases of the coronavirus and 13 deaths resulting from COVID-19. Nine of the people who died were residents of long-term care and assisted living facilities, the Minnesota Department of Health reported.

MISSISSIPPI Natchez: The mayor has tested positive for COVID-19. Mayor Dan Gibson had already been on a 14-day self-imposed quarantine after a person with whom he had lunch tested positive for the coronavirus. “It is the weirdest, strangest virus,” Gibson said.

MISSOURI Jefferson City: The state has reached a grim milestone, topping 100,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that over the seven-day period of Sept. 4-10, Missouri saw the sixth-highest number of new cases among all states.

MONTANA Helena: A long-term care facility reported the deaths of four more residents due to complications of COVID-19 on Friday. Whitefish Care and Rehabilitation’s outbreak has led to the deaths of 10 residents, and more than 75% have tested positive since August, the Flathead City-County Health Department said.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: The owner of a bowling alley who has been at loggerheads with city officials for weeks over orders intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus is suing to stop the mandates from being enforced.

NEVADA Las Vegas: Gov. Steve Sisolak said President Donald Trump has denied the state’s request to have the federal government fund all of the cost of deploying the National Guard to help with Nevada’s coronavirus response.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Nashua: Students in two districts, in Nashua and Concord, were subjected to pornography and other inappropriate behavior during remote classes last week, authorities said.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: Almost three-fifths of people who respond to the state’s COVID-19 contact tracers are refusing to cooperate, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said Friday. “It’s not a witch hunt,” he said.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: State labor officials say they have started paying out supplemental federal unemployment benefits of $300 a week.

NEW YORK New York: The president of the city’s teachers union warned that it wouldn’t let schools open later this month if the city doesn’t do what’s needed on issues such as issuing protective equipment, testing and school cleanings.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: A judge refused Friday to place more controls upon the state prison system after inmate advocates argued it wasn’t doing what the judge previously ordered to protect the incarcerated against COVID-19.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: A county that is among the state’s COVID-19 hot spots has voted unanimously against creating a public mask mandate. The Bismarck Tribune reports nearly a dozen people spoke out against the idea at the Morton County Commission meeting Thursday.

OHIO Oxford: A college student house held a party over the Labor Day weekend that included people who had recently tested positive for the coronavirus, according to police body camera footage. Oxford police cited six men who attended a house party near Miami University on Saturday for violating the state’s mass gathering and quarantine ordinance. OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Health officials reported six more deaths from the coronavirus Sunday as the state’s death toll surpassed 900.

OREGON Salem: Oregonians who were unemployed between July 26 and Sept. 5 can now certify for the $300 weekly Lost Wages Assistance benefits through the Oregon Employment Department.

PENNSYLVANIA Bethlehem: Peeps treats are going on hiatus for several months – another consequence of the coronavirus pandemic. Just Born Quality Confections said it won’t be producing the popular marshmallow sweets for Halloween, Christmas or Valentine’s Day as the Bethlehem based company prepares for next Easter, PennLive.com reports.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state will send applications for mailin ballots to every registered voter in advance of the Nov. 3 election, officials announced Friday. Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea said she’s taking the action to make it easy to vote from home and to avoid crowding polling places during the pandemic.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Three inmates at Broad River Correctional Institution have died after testing positive for COVID-19, bringing the death toll at the facility up to five, officials said.

TENNESSEE Chattanooga: School leaders in Hamilton County have approved a $2.1 million surface disinfectant vendor contract in taking extra precautions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

TEXAS Houston: Harris County can move forward with plans to send all registered voters a mail-in ballot application for the November general election, taking place against the backdrop of the pandemic, a state judge ruled Friday.

UTAH St. George: Since the reopening of the shuttle system in July, Zion National Park’s shuttles have been filled to the brim while operating at limited capacity due to COVID-19. Now more are coming to Zion Canyon via St. George Shuttle to help the ever-increasing amount of people escaping the indoors. The two newest buses will cost about $800 per day, according to Commissioner Gil Almquist – all funded with federal money allotted to the county to help alleviate the financial effects of the pandemic.

VERMONT Montpelier: Republican Gov. Phil Scott on Friday extended Vermont’s coronavirus-related state of emergency to Oct. 15 and, on the 19th anniversary of 9/11, said the unity, determination and resolve the country found following that attack are needed now amid the pandemic.

VIRGINIA Richmond: Two inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 died Saturday as the state struggled with an outbreak of more than 400 active cases at a prison that houses many older and ailing male inmates. Lisa Kinney, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Corrections, said in a news release that 407 inmates at the Deerfield Correctional Center in Capron currently have the illness caused by the coronavirus. Kinney said a total of six Deerfield inmates have died from COVID-19, the most deaths at any prison in Virginia.

WASHINGTON Seattle: As coronavirus cases spike at Western State Hospital, the state’s largest psychiatric hospital, workers are pleading with officials to save them not just from the disease but from the patient-onpatient violence that continues to plague the facility. As of Thursday, 23 patients and 74 workers have tested positive for COVID-19, numbers that have doubled since mid-July.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Marshall University will impose pay cuts affecting 650 employees due to the coronavirus pandemic reducing enrollment, the school’s president announced Thursday.

WISCONSIN Madison: The state Supreme Court has temporarily blocked an order that prevented most students in Dane County from attending school in person as health leaders tried to control the coronavirus’ spread.

WYOMING Casper: The University of Wyoming plans to restart in-person classes Tuesday after switching to online learning when a cluster of coronavirus cases emerged.