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Selarstean Mitchell remembers how her house filled with flowers and sympathy cards after her mother’s death. Then floodwaters swept it all away.

Ben Vinson III is stepping down after just two years in the post. Former President Wayne A.I. Frederick will fill in on an interim basis.

On Aug. 19, a federal judge ruled the state must redraw the map that it uses to elect its Supreme Court justices.