SF Sheriff Loses Reelection Bid:  The San Francisco Sheriff central in the national debate over "sanctuary cities" lost his reelection bid Tuesday.  Fox News reports that 54-year-old Ross Mirkarimi was thrust into the national spotlight in July, when illegal immigrant Francisco Sanchez shot and killed 32-year-old Kate Steinle after being released from his jail three months before, despite a request from federal immigration officials to keep him detained for deportation.  Mirkarimi responded to criticism by defending San Francisco' sanctuary city policies, "taking the practice to a new level under his leadership."  Other high-profile controversies continued to plague Mirkarimi, including flunking a marksmanship test and having his driver's license temporarily suspended for failing to properly report a minor accident while driving a department-issued car.  Mirkarimi will be succeeded by Vicki Hennessy, a former sheriff's official who previously described the city's sanctuary city policies, which routinely ignore and fail to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as "misguided."

OH Rejects Marijuana Legislation:  Ohio voters voted down a ballot proposal Tuesday that would have legalized both recreational and medical marijuana, with 65 percent of voters opposed to the measure and 35 percent in favor.  Julie Carr Smyth of My Way reports that the proposed state constitutional amendment, Issue 3, would have permitted adults aged 21 and older to use, purchase or grow certain amounts of marijuana and allowed others to use it as medicine.  One component of the measure, which states that growing facilities were to be controlled by a few private investors, was heavily criticized by opponents as a "marijuana monopoly" and became a separate ballot question that passed.  Even supporters of legalized marijuana voted against Issue 3 because it "was designed and built primarily to garner massive exclusive profits for a small group of self-selected wealthy investors."  Other supporters have called Tuesday's defeat "relatively insignificant" and "a bump in the road."

TX Gov. Strips State Grant Funding from Sanctuary City Sheriffs:  Following an order by Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez to scale back on honoring detainers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced a new plan to strip state grant funding from county sheriffs that adhere to "sanctuary city" policies.  Bob Price of Breitbart reports that Abbott's new standards require Texas sheriff's departments seeking grants from the Governor's Criminal Justice Division (CJD) to fully honor ICE's detention requests for criminal immigrants.  He has also suggested new legislation to be considered by 2017, including new laws making it illegal for a Texas sheriff to ignore an ICE detainer and holding counties financially responsible for the actions of any illegal immigrant released because of an ignored ICE detainer.  "It is vitally important that sheriffs lead by example and enforce the rule of law," said Gov. Abbott in a written statement.