50 ★ States
ALABAMA Montgomery: The number of COVID-19 patients in Alabama hospitals climbed to more than 900 on Monday – a number the state has not seen since February.
ALASKA Juneau: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans to review whether a southeast Alaska wolf population merits Endangered Species Act protections.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Civil rights leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and William Barber, were among 39 people arrested Monday after refusing to leave the Phoenix office of Democratic U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who has faced unrelenting pressure from liberal activists over her opposition to ending the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he planned to meet with House and Senate leaders about growing calls to allow schools to require face masks as the state reported 23 more deaths from COVID-19.
COLORADO Fort Collins: The first phase of the Larimer County Jail’s multimillion-dollar expansion project has wrapped up.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: Dr. Manisha Juthani, an infectious disease specialist at Yale School of Medicine, was nominated by Gov. Ned Lamont to serve as the next commissioner of the Department of Public Health.
DELAWARE Wilmington: State Rep. Gerald Brady will not seek reelection when his term ends in 2022, he said Monday.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: D.C. neighbors are calling for action from the city after three young men were shot on Q Street northwest Sunday afternoon, two of whom died, WUSA-TV reported.
FLORIDA Orlando: Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings said “we are now in crisis mode” when it comes to dealing with soaring numbers of COVID-19 infections.
GEORGIA Savannah: For the first time, the Port of Savannah has moved 5.3 million 20-foot equivalent container units in a fiscal year, the Georgia Ports Authority said.
HAWAII Lihue: Kauai utility officials are installing glow-in-the-dark devices to prevent endangered nocturnal seabirds from crashing into power lines.
IDAHO Boise: A federal court has temporarily halted a northern Idaho logging project in grizzly bear habitat following a lawsuit contending the U.S. Forest Service violated environmental laws.
ILLINOIS Chicago: The city of Chicago and its police union announced they have reached a tentative contract agreement after four years of negotiations.
INDIANA Indianapolis: The Department of Environmental Management forecasted high ozone levels Tuesday for four regions in the central, southern and western parts of the state.
IOWA Des Moines: The Des Moines Metropolitan Wastewater Reclamation Authority has begun sampling sewage as part of a national program to track the spread of the coronavirus and its variants.
KANSAS Overland Park: One of Kansas’ largest public school districts plans to require elementary students to wear masks this fall.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: The Kentucky Department for Public Health is offering a coronavirus testing program for schools to assist with safe in-person learning for the upcoming academic year.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: Officials suspended visitation and volunteer programs in Louisiana’s eight staterun prisons Tuesday to guard against the spread of COVID-19. MAINE Augusta: Public health authorities said a second case of a rare tick-borne infection has been located in the state.
MARYLAND Annapolis: Gov. Larry Hogan honored deaf and blind swimmer Becca Meyers for courage in championing the disabled, after the three-time gold medalist withdrew from the Paralympics in Tokyo when told her mother couldn’t travel as her personal care assistant.
MASSACHUSETTS Provincetown: City officials have approved an indoor mask mandate to fight an outbreak of more than 500 new confirmed coronavirus cases. MICHIGAN St. Ignace: Enbridge said it had retrieved an anchor that broke away from a maintenance vessel while on the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac.
MINNESOTA Fairmont: An announcer who was fired by an Iowa racetrack after a racist rant was back behind the microphone in southern Minnesota last weekend.
MISSISSIPPI Vicksburg: The Mississippi Department of Public Safety said it wants local officials to find a larger building for the state driver’s license office in Vicksburg. MISSOURI Jefferson City: Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has sued to halt a mask mandate in the St. Louis area.
MONTANA Livingston: Authorities in south-central Montana continued searching for an inmate who overpowered a county jail guard, took the guard’s gun and car keys and escaped in a stolen minivan.
NEBRASKA Omaha: A man has been indicted on a federal charge of bank fraud after prosecutors said he lied to get a loan through a federal program meant to help businesses struggling from the pandemic.
NEVADA Reno: A federal judge has denied environmentalists’ request for a court order temporarily blocking the government from digging trenches for archaeological surveys at a mine planned near the NevadaOregon line with the largest-known U.S. deposit of lithium.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Fineparticle air pollution concentrations have reached unhealthy levels statewide for people with lung diseases and those who are active outdoors as smoke from wildfires in the West and Canada reaches the area.
NEW JERSEY Newark: A $44 million federal grant announced Monday will be used to modernize, expand and reconfigure the road system at the port complex in Newark and Elizabeth, making it safer and cutting down on delays.
NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: State education officials released updated guidance on COVID-19 case reporting, masking requirements and vaccine considerations for K-12 schools this fall.
NEW YORK New York City: Carlos Santana, LL Cool J and Barry Manilow are among the performers who will join headliners Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen and Jennifer Hudson at next month’s Central Park concert to celebrate the city’s recovery from the pandemic.
NORTH CAROLINA Currituck: The Currituck-Knotts Island ferry service is being suspended to alleviate a staffing shortage at the Hatteras terminal.
NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: The Army has awarded a more than $13 million contract to Gast Construction Company, Inc. in Fargo to build a Remotely Piloted Aircraft operations center for the North Dakota Air National Guard’s 119th Wing.
OHIO Athens: Ohio University has notified the Delta Pi chapter of Sigma Chi that it has been suspended for four years following an investigation by the school that revealed student code of conduct violations.
OKLAHOMA Tulsa: The remains of 19 bodies exhumed as part of a city search for unmarked burials from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will be reinterred during a private ceremony Friday at Oaklawn Cemetery.
OREGON Portland: Health officials in Oregon’s most populous county said they strongly recommend that people wear masks in all indoor public spaces regardless of vaccine status.
PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: Nearly 1,500 nursing home workers across Pennsylvania canceled a one-day strike Tuesday after they reached contract agreements with their employers.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Public health officials are investigating a rise in the number of cases of Legionnaires’ disease in Rhode Island, the state Department of Health said. SOUTH CAROLINA Lake Wylie: At least 80 dogs were taken out of a home because they were living in very poor conditions, deputies said. Two monkeys and a bird were also removed Monday from property in Lake Wylie.
SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: The Great Plains Tribal Leaders’ Health Board is requiring all of its employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19.
TENNESSEE Memphis: An exhibit of artwork, costumes and props from The Walt Disney Co. archives is on display at the Graceland Exhibition Center.
TEXAS San Antonio: A man elbowed a bailiff who was attempting to handcuff him after the man was convicted of killing a police detective.
UTAH Kanosh: A sandstorm caused a 22-vehicle pileup on a highway that left eight people dead, including four children, authorities said.
VERMONT Montpelier: Vermont’s congressional delegation sent a letter to the U.S. State Department asking it to direct sufficient resources to work through a backlog of requests for passports and renewals.
VIRGINIA Richmond: The two leading candidates in the closely watched race for governor said they will voluntarily disclose at least some information from recent tax returns before the November election.
WASHINGTON Yakima: The federal government has issued big fines for two Yakima County fruit companies for missing the annual deadline for filing forms reporting their facilities store anhydrous ammonia.
WEST VIRGINIA Mount Hope: A new West Virginia highway marker commemorates the Siltix Mine explosion that killed seven people.
WISCONSIN Milwaukee: The Milwaukee Common Council voted to approve a $627,000 settlement with former Police Chief Alfonso Morales over his demotion last year.
WYOMING Gillette: Recently retired U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming has died Monday at 77. Enzi had been hospitalized with a broken neck and ribs three days after a bicycle accident near Gillette on Friday.