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ALABAMA Tuskegee: The Macon County Commission has sued the United Daughters of the Confederacy, arguing the county owns the property where a Confederate statue has stood for 115 years in the center of the nearly all-Black city, WSFA-TV reports.

ALASKA Juneau: Republican state Sen. Lora Reinbold, an outspoken opponent of masking rules, requested an excusal from the Senate until midJanuary, citing the challenges of traveling after she was suspended from flying on Alaska Airlines.

ARIZONA Phoenix: State auditors say public safety may be put at risk by reporting gaps and a backlog in the database that Arizona uses for conducting background checks of people seeking certain jobs and for helping to decide if defendants should get plea bargains or lenient sentences.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: Former state Sen. Eddie Joe Williams said he’ll run for the Republican nomination for secretary of state, becoming the second to challenge incumbent John Thurston in next year’s GOP primary.

CALIFORNIA San Francisco: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop Saturday. The Rev. Megan Rohrer will oversee nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and northern Nevada.

COLORADO Brighton: A man convicted of vehicular homicide for hitting another car during a Facebook livestream that showed him speeding up to 167 mph at night has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: About 300 refugees from Afghanistan are expected to arrive in the state in the coming weeks and months as immigrant advocacy groups work to find permanent homes for them.

DELAWARE Rehoboth Beach: Three teenagers were hospitalized after possibly being struck by debris at Funland on Sunday, officials said.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: An exact replica of the original, smaller version of the 9:30 Club is in the works, WUSA-TV reports.

FLORIDA Miami Beach: An apartment building owned by the mayor of the adjacent town where a condominium collapsed in June has given his tenants 45 days to vacate so extensive repairs can be completed.

GEORGIA Dunwoody: An explosion rocked an apartment building Sunday, partially collapsing it and injuring four people, authorities said.

HAWAII Honolulu: A judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement in a lawsuit by inmates who allege state officials mishandled the pandemic and failed to protect them from COVID-19 outbreaks.

IDAHO Boise: Over 1,000 protesters gathered Monday during a visit by President Joe Biden to express their displeasure about his coronavirus plan, the election and other issues.

ILLINOIS Chicago: The Chicago Park District said it plans to put life rings along the Lake Michigan waterfront – but only in areas considered safe to swim, upsetting the mother of a college student who drowned off a pier.

INDIANA West Lafayette: About 300 Purdue University students and employees face disciplinary action for failing to comply with coronavirus testing for those who haven’t provided proof of vaccination.

IOWA Des Moines: Polk County will purchase Sleepy Hollow Sports Park, a favorite site for tubing and sledding in the winter and for Renaissance fairs, festivals, comedy shows and concerts in the summer.

KANSAS Hutchinson: Kansas State Fair officials judging 4-H entomology entries discovered a student had caught a spotted lanternfly, an invasive insect that prompted quarantines elsewhere.

KENTUCKY Fort Wright: The city plans to return artifacts on loan after permanently closing the James A. Ramage Civil War Museum.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: The head of the State Police says he wants to know why 67% of his agency’s uses of force in recent years were directed at Black people and would welcome a Justice Department probe.

MAINE Portland: Two companies that manufacture coronavirus testing supplies in the state say they’re ready to meet increased demand. MARYLAND Baltimore: Cruise ship passengers left the city’s port for the first time in 18 months Sunday.

MASSACHUSETTS Danvers: A tourist farm called police on a Black couple it accused of stealing six apples and is apologizing after the family went public in a blog post.

MICHIGAN Benton Harbor: Advocacy groups are urging the Biden administration to help provide safe drinking water in the low-income, predominantly Black city, saying local and state officials have not responded adequately or quickly enough since lead contamination was discovered three years ago.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: Black bear sightings are on the rise, including in Twin Cities suburbs, as drought has made it harder for the animals to find food ahead of hibernation.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Six Black farmworkers say in a lawsuit that their former employer brought white laborers from South Africa to do the same jobs they were doing and that the farm has been violating federal law by paying the white immigrants more for the same type of work.

MISSOURI St. Louis: A member of Washington University’s student government put nearly 3,000 U.S. flags meant to commemorate 9/11 victims in trash bags, prompting a school probe into what the student said was a protest about the human cost of the attacks’ aftermath.

MONTANA Billings: Montana Youth Action, Forward Montana Foundation and Montana Public Interest Research Group are suing Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen over laws they say reduce youth voter turnout.

NEBRASKA Omaha: Four students are suing Creighton University over its COVID-19 vaccine requirement, arguing some “feel coerced” to violate anti-abortion religious beliefs.

NEVADA Carson City: An analysis found Nevada’s students are doing worse on most tests than they did in 2000, when the state spent 79% less on each pupil.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Durham: The University of New Hampshire has been awarded a $1.8 million grant to study how and why coastal hazards like excessive flooding are causing roads to crack and crumble.

NEW MEXICO Las Cruces: A new study co-authored by a New Mexico State University researcher found that participants who did not have a friend or family member infected, hospitalized or die with COVID-19 were at least two times more likely to refuse vaccinations.

NEW YORK New York: All of the city’s 472 subway stations are now equipped with security cameras.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Certain ex-felons who’ve registered to vote recently will remain eligible as litigation over their right to vote continues, the state’s high court ruled.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Authorities said one person was hurt in an explosion during a fireworks display Saturday.

OHIO Cincinnati: A second federal lawsuit filed against six local hospital groups, alleging they conspired against their employees by requiring COVID-19 vaccinations, has been voluntarily dismissed.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The state’s Pardon and Parole Board on Monday recommended the governor commute the death sentence of Julius Jones, who has maintained his innocence in a 1999 killing that has garnered national attention.

OREGON Yachats: A man who attempted to jump across a wide cove of frothing water is presumed dead, according to state police. Steve Allen, 67, of Walnut Creek, California, apparently tried to hurdle Devil’s Churn, a narrow boiling inlet.

PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: The union that represents corrections officers in prisons wants a state court to intervene over the governor’s mandate that they all get COVID-19 vaccines or submit to weekly coronavirus testing, saying inmates, visitors and outside vendors aren’t also subject to the requirement.

RHODE ISLAND Newport: An estate once famously owned by Claus and Martha von Bulow has sold for $30 million, nearly doubling the state’s previous home price record.

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: A large granite monument honoring 9/11 victims was defaced by vandals who spray-painted “Taliban” on it in two places, authorities said.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Badlands National Park will build a new visitor center in the southeast section of the park, the National Park Foundation said Monday.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Some residents who were affected by last month’s flooding can apply for “disaster SNAP” emergency food benefits, state officials said.

TEXAS Austin: Several funeral home embalmers in the area say it’s common practice to pour human blood from corpses down the drain – a procedure that Austin Water officials admit they were unaware was occurring and could compromise the treatment of wastewater entering the Colorado River.

UTAH Cedar City: The Utah Shakespeare Festival is partnering with the Iron County Care and Share on a local food drive, offering discounted tickets for participants.

VERMONT Thetford: Public meetings will be held this month as a plan to commit the state to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years is drafted.

VIRGINIA Newport News: This year’s menhaden catch so far in the Chesapeake Bay is worrying the state’s top fisheries regulator, but the company harvesting most of the oily fish says it won’t exceed a set quota.

WASHINGTON Blaine: Officials say they’ve destroyed a second nest of Asian giant hornets found in northwestern Washington this year and are preparing to take down a third.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Events for this year’s West Virginia Book Festival are going virtual due to rising COVID-19 cases, officials said.

WISCONSIN Madison: Democratic Gov. Tony Evers sought Monday to join the court fight over Wisconsin’s redistricting process, just as Republicans who lead the Legislature have.

WYOMING Cheyenne: A man accused of choking his girlfriend has pleaded guilty in Laramie County District Court.