Author: From USA TODAY Network and wire reports, USA TODAY

How the COVID-19 pandemic and election are affecting every state

Elm tree named Herbie to live on via clones in Maine, Eco-Earth made from industrial eyesore falling apart in Oregon, and more

Bedbugs eradicated from City Hall in Arizona, postal worker saves Christmas in Kansas, and more

NYPD say they’ll finally stop stockpiling juvenile fingerprints, California brewery goes after utility over fires with beer name, and more

Governor clarifies he wasn’t calling GOP ‘bastards’ in Wisconsin, student body president faces impeachment over Trump Jr. visit in Florida, and more

Researchers say people getting too close to Hawaiian monk seals, Vermont officials look for way to memorialize farmer, and more

Hawaii city to curb surfing events, Missouri man grows record-size pumpkins, and more

Puerto Rican volunteers give back in Kentucky forest restoration, Colorado’s highest peaks seeing more hopeful climbers, and more

Study finds high levels of uranium in Navajo women and infants, bodies from tragic 1944 circus fire exhumed in Connecticut, and more

Air Force falcon mascot dies, feds say drought in West Virginia worsening, and more