As of Monday, March 22, 2021, Montana reports 103,098 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 73 new cases reported in the last day: 49 in Cascade County, 10 in Flathead County, 5 in Yellowstone County, and more new cases in 7 more Montana counties. The number of active coronavirus cases in Montana is 974. Currently, 51 people are being treated in Montana hospitals for COVID-19. The most active cases are in Gallatin, Missoula, and Yellowstone Counties. 1,414 people have died in Montana of COVID-19. Nationwide, more than 542,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. There have been 29,800,000 cases of coronavirus in the US, and counting.

Two hikers were found dead in Acadia National Park in Maine on Saturday after a fatal fall during a hike, according to the National Park Service. The 28-year-old man and 30-year-old woman appeared to have fallen about 100 feet along iced covered cliff bands on Dorr Mountain. The two hikers had arrived in Bar Harbor, Maine, on Tuesday and were last heard from on Thursday at about noon. Concerns on their whereabouts grew on Friday afternoon when the couple did not check out of their hotel as scheduled or return to their vehicle. The search began Friday night after family members reported the couple overdue to check in.

A California high school player died after collapsing during game. Emmanuel Antwi, a senior at John F. Kennedy High School in Sacramento, was taken to the hospital after he collapsed during a game Friday night. He died the next day. In the past decade, there have been 34 deaths related to on-field action — or an average of three people each season — among middle school and high school football players, according to data collected by the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research. Most football deaths in the past decade were caused by complications from existing conditions, like heart ailments, or problems related to over-exertion, like heat stroke.

A 22-year-old Olympic surfing hopeful from El Salvador has died while training for an upcoming qualifying competition. Katherine Diaz was in the water at El Tunco beach in south-west El Salvador on Friday when she was struck by lightning. Diaz’s uncle, Beto Diaz, who says he was in the water with her, said, “Katherine came over to hug her [friend], as soon as she finished hugging her, the noise was heard. the friend was thrown by the force of the lightning strike too, the board threw me back. Katherine died instantly.”

Livingston police are investigating a suspected homicide-suicide. Preliminary information from an ongoing investigation launched Sunday in Livingston suggests that a person who fatally shot themselves when contacted by police earlier in the day is connected to the fatal shooting of another person. The incident, which Livingston Police Department Chief Dale Johnson is calling a homicide-suicide, involved a residence on South Ninth Street. Police were informed that shots had been fired as they were en route to the residence Sunday morning after receiving a report of an ongoing disturbance involving multiple people. Chief Johnson said, “one member of the dispute was shot and succumbed to the injuries and a second individual succumbed to [a] self-inflicted gunshot.”