As of Sunday, March 21, 2021, Montana reports 103,060 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 61 new cases reported in the last day: 16 in Missoula County, 12 in Yellowstone County, 10 in Park County, 7 in Flathead County, and more new cases in 8 more Montana counties. The number of active coronavirus cases in Montana is 1,003. Currently, 49 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. Five more deaths have been reported in the last two days. 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.

Miami Beach, Florida, city leaders voted Sunday to extend emergency restrictions to try to prevent the spread of coronavirus because of out-of-control spring break crowds that local officials believe are made up of more than just typical college students. Miama Beach City commissioners voted to keep an 8 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew in their entertainment district. Miami Beach had earlier imposed a midnight curfew, and alcohol on the beach is forbidden. The types of crowds that have descended on the popular South Florida destination are not made up of the regular college-age students officials are used to, Mayor Dan Gelber and City Manager Raul Aguila said. Florida’s lax Covid-19 rules have encouraged people from outside the state to visit.

Texas Roadhouse founder and CEO Kent Taylor died Thursday by suicide after a fight with coronavirus symptoms, including severe tinnitus, or ringing in the ear, and his suffering had increased in recent days. Taylor had funded a clinical study to help members of the military suffering with tinnitus, a condition he suffered that was exacerbated when he contracted COVID-19. Before getting sick with COVID, Taylor gave up his salary from March 2020 through January 2021 and donated the funds to assist frontline restaurant employees during the pandemic.

A Bozemanite has been selected to be the next US Senate sergeant-at-arms. Karen Gibson left Bozeman in 1982 to attend Purdue University on a ROTC scholarship, and thought she would complete her engineering degree and her army service and then decide the direction she’d like to take her life. But she made a career for 33 years, retiring last year as a lieutenant general. She was stationed in Alaska and later became an intelligence officer and was deployed overseas, including to Afghanistan and Iraq. Her military career has since led to her appointment as the next U.S. Senate sergeant-at-arms, a position that has taken on particular significance since the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol raised questions about security and preparedness. She will be sworn in Monday on the US Senate floor. Gibson served on a committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, which led to her selection by Senator Chuck Schumer to be the next sergeant-at-arms. About the insurrection, Gibson said, “I was just so angry and appalled on Jan. 6… You take an oath in the military to uphold and defend the Constitution, and this was a very constitutional process that was unfolding that day, so to see Americans attacking it was shocking. And what bothered me, in particular, is that this was the kind of activity that I have seen in other countries … and I never thought I would see this in my own nation.” As the sergeant-at-arms, Gibson will oversee security and administration of the Senate complex, which includes managing information technology, enforcing the chamber’s rules and escorting the president and official guests of the Senate.