“The South Dakota Senate has voted to remove Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg (R) from office during his impeachment trial Tuesday,” the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports.

Associated Press: “Ravnsborg, a first-term Republican who only recently announced he wouldn’t seek reelection, showed little emotion as senators convicted him first of committing a crime that caused someone’s death. They then delivered another guilty verdict on a malfeasance charge that alleged he misled investigators and misused his office.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) was arrested Friday night for allegedly driving under the influence after leaving a music festival in the state, the AP reports.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) “was vacationing in the Italian region of Tuscany while his state was dealing with what officials called a ‘once-in-every-500-years’ flooding disaster,” the Daily Mail reports.

“The governor — who previously refused to confirm the location of his trip — is now returning to Montana Thursday evening as historic flooding continues to ravage the state, and Yellowstone National Park faces ‘indefinite’ closure.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) suggested that he might urge the state’s child protective services to investigate parents who take their children to drag shows, NBC News reports.

Said DeSantis: “It used to be kids would be off-limits. Used to be everybody agreed with that. Now it just seems like there’s a concerted effort to be exposing kids more and more to things that are not age appropriate.”

“We are called to be led by men… God sent women out when they had to do their thing, but when it was time to face down Goliath, he sent David. Not Davita — David.”

— North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R), quoted by the Charlotte Observer.

“Louisiana became the 18th state to bar transgender women and girls from playing on female school sports teams Monday after the state’s Democratic governor chose not to veto or approve the bill,” NBC News reports.

The wife of a former California state senator extensively plagiarized a manuscript that she had been paid at least $2.45 million to write, the San Jose Mercury News reports.

The 580-page manuscript, which reportedly fell two years behind schedule before finally being delivered in January, contained paragraphs that appeared to have been lifted wholesale from “Wikipedia, the History Channel, the Mercury News, the Washington Post, county web pages and other sources, about half of them without footnotes.”

The Special Olympics USA Games, scheduled for next week in Orlando, rescinded its Covid-19 vaccine requirement for the competition after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration warned they could face $27.5 million in fines, ABC News reports.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has vetoed the state budget’s $35 million that would have funded a new training facility and youth complex for the Tampa Bay Rays after the baseball team tweeted its support for gun control, Fox News reports.

Utah County Attorney David Leavitt called for an outside investigation and the resignation of the county’s top law enforcement officer, saying Sheriff Mike Smith has dredged up outlandish allegations accusing the county attorney of “cannibalizing young children” and participating in a “ritualistic” sex ring, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg (R) will not run for re-election in 2022, regardless of the outcome of his Senate impeachment trial, KOTA reports.

Ravnsborg’s tenure as Attorney General has been marred by a September 2020 crash where he struck and killed pedestrian Joe Boever with his car.

North Dakota state Sen. Ray Holmberg (R) declined to comment on whether he’s the subject of an ongoing investigation following a report that he’d traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges, the AP reports.

Holmberg had previously announced plans to resign Wednesday, six months before the end of his term.

“Texas authorities dealing with the Uvalde school shooting’s aftermath have so far provided public updates only in English, prompting criticism that the many Spanish speakers in the largely Latino community are being excluded,” Axios reports.

“Over 81% of residents in Uvalde, where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at a school last week, are Latino, and many speak Spanish at home.”

Ohio Lt. Gov. John Husted (R) has joined the board of Heartland Bank while he’s still in office and running for re-election, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein (D) had a “minor stroke” on Monday night and is recovering in the hospital, the Raleigh News & Observer reports.

The Indiana General Assembly has overturned Gov. Eric Holcomb’s (R) veto of a bill which prohibits transgender girls from playing girls school sports, the Indianapolis Star reports.