• After crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge one last time, the body of Congressman John Lewis was brought to the Alabama State Capitol Sunday to lie in state.
• The casket was received by Gov. Kay Ivey and members of the state's congressional delegation as well as other political leaders.
• As many as 3,000 people braved the heat and rain to come pay their respects to the civil rights icon, according to the governor's office.
• Lewis died July 17 at 80, months after he was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer. Lewis served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Georgia’s 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death.
• Lewis left his family's farm in Pike County, Alabama, in the 1950s to begin the fight against segregation and racial oppression. He received a hero's welcome on his final stop in his home state.
• After the viewing, his casket was carried out as the song “Amazing Grace" was sung.
• Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., spoke at a vigil for Lewis across the street from the Capitol, just a block away from the church her father led during the civil rights movement. Standing in front of large letters, spelling out the word “VOTE," she recalled the man her father called “the boy from Troy” and her family called Uncle John.
• “The most astounding thing about Congressman Lewis being left for dead on that bridge (in 1965) is how he got up both physically and spiritually. When he recovered, he recovered without a trace of bitterness or hostility or without losing hope in our Democracy," Bernice King said.
• Full story from Kim Chandler HERE.

• Alabama saw nearly 3,000 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend. Thirty-three new deaths were reported Saturday and Sunday, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.
• Sunday's total of 1,037 is the lowest number of new daily cases reported in almost three weeks.
• The seven-day average for cases is now 1,640, according to the website BamaTracker, which compiles information from ADHP. That’s also a decrease from last week. 
• The state’s two-week mask mandate ends Friday, unless Gov. Kay Ivey extends it. 
• As of Sunday morning, there had been 77,351 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health. There were 1,428 confirmed deaths.
• As of Sunday afternoon, 1,505 people were currently hospitalized, a slight decrease from a high of 1,586 last week. 
• A total of 647,743 Alabamians have been tested to date. Of those who tested positive, 32,510 are presumed recovered, according to ADPH.
• Last week, Alabama Superintendent of Education Eric Mackey said up to half of the state’s public school students will be attending classes remotely in the fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Mackey said more than a quarter of students are in systems that are only doing remote classes for the first part of year. He said as many as 15% to 30% of students will be choosing to do remote learning in school systems that have that as an option, in addition to in-person classes.
• The ADPH updates its COVID-19 data at 10 a.m. daily.

• More than 40 people were infected with the coronavirus after attending a multi-day revival event at a north Alabama Baptist church, according to the congregation's pastor.
• “The whole church has got it, just about,” Al.com quoted pastor Daryl Ross of Warrior Creek Missionary Baptist Church in Marshall County as saying.
• The pastor says the churchgoers, including himself, tested positive after the congregation held a series of religious services featuring a guest pastor over the course of several days last week.
• Ross said the services were shut down by Friday after learning that one of the members who attended had tested positive for the virus. The member presented no symptoms, but got tested when several of his coworkers received positive tests, according to the pastor.
• Over the weekend, dozens more fell ill, Ross said, adding: “I’ve got church members sick everywhere."
• “We knew what we were getting into,” he said. “We knew the possibilities."
• Ross said only two members’ cases were serious, and as of Sunday, nobody had been hospitalized, though many had reported having fevers, headaches and respiratory issues.
• He said some social distancing measures were in place during the services, which were held multiple times a day, and most members skipped the events out of concern for the virus. Those that attended sat with their own families. Masks were not required, the newspaper reported.
• “We let everybody do what they felt like. ... If you were comfortable shaking hands, you shook hands. If you didn’t, you didn’t,” the pastor said.
• The church is located in a small community called Strawberry, about 60 miles northeast of Birmingham.
• Full story HERE.

• Suggesting a narrower pandemic relief package may be all that's possible, the White House still pushed ahead with Monday's planned rollout of the Senate Republicans' $1 trillion effort as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi assailed the GOP “disarray” as time-wasting during the crisis.
• The administration’s chief negotiators — White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin — spent the weekend on Capitol Hill to put what Meadows described as “final touches” on the relief bill Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to bring forward Monday afternoon.
• “We’re done,” Mnuchin said as he and Meadows left Capitol Hill on Sunday after meeting with GOP staff.
• But looming deadlines may force them to consider other options. By Friday, millions of out-of-work Americans will lose a $600 federal unemployment benefit that is expiring and federal eviction protections for many renters are also coming to an end.
• Meadows said as the White House was “looking for clarity” on a “handful” of remaining issues with Republicans, but they had yet to talk to McConnell. “We have an agreement in principle,” he said. 
• Both Mnuchin and Meadows said earlier Sunday that narrower legislation might need to be passed first to ensure that enhanced unemployment benefits don’t run out for millions of Americans. They cited unemployment benefits, money to help schools reopen, tax credits to keep people from losing their jobs, and lawsuit protections for schools and businesses as priorities. 
• “We can move very quickly with the Democrats on these issues,” Mnuchin said. 
• But negotiations with Democrats have yet to begin with billions at stake and deadlines near.
• Full story HERE.

• MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Gov. Kay Ivey has set a special election to fill the Alabama House seat vacated by the death this month of Republican state Rep. Ron Johnson of Sylacauga.
• Ivey set the special primary for House District 33 for Oct. 6, the primary runoff, if necessary, for Nov. 3, and the general election for Jan. 19. al.com reported.
• Johnson had served the district, which covers parts of Clay, Coosa, and Talladega counties, since 1978.
• Candidates can qualify with the Democratic and Republican parties until Aug. 4 at 5 p.m.
• "Rep. Ron Johnson served the constituents of Clay, Coosa and Talladega counties well for many years, and I know he will truly be missed by all," Ivey said. "Especially while we are experiencing such uncertain times, it is important that the people living in House District 33 have a voice for them in the Legislature."

• BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has received a $75,000 donation to help diminish the effects of COVID-19 and cancer in Alabama's Black Belt.
• AL.com reports that the gift from the Mike & Gillian Goodrich Foundation will go toward the cancer center's Office of Community Outreach and Engagement to fund cancer prevention and awareness activities.
• That includes outreach and education to help people better care for themselves and manage stress and anxiety during the pandemic.
• Called the "Black Belt" because of the color of its soil, the area also has a largely African American population. Monica Baskin, associate director of the O'Neal Center, said residents of the region remain at high risk for both cancer and coronavirus. 
• Baskin said residents also have questions about the basic facts of the virus and concerns about how to secure food and financial help.

• DOUBLE SPRINGS, Ala. (AP) — A 14-year-old girl was killed over the weekend in a boating accident on an Alabama lake, authorities said. 
• The teenager was being pulled in an intertube on Smith Lake when the accident happened around 5 p.m. Saturday, according to a statement from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's Marine Patrol Division.
• The agency said it responded to the Winston County area of the lake, which is about 70 miles (113 kilometers) north of Birmingham.
• Officials did not comment further on the circumstances surrounding the accident. 
• The victim was not immediately identified. 
• The agency was continuing to investigate.