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RALEIGH – The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it will file a lawsuit in federal court challenging key provisions of North Carolina’s new election law, widely considered to be the harshest voter suppression law in the nation.
ASHEBORO – Tonight, the Randolph County Board of Education voted 6-1 to reverse an earlier vote banning Ralph Ellison’s literary classic, “Invisible Man,” from Randolph County schools.
CHARLOTTE – A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer shot and killed an unarmed man who was running toward him after being involved in a car accident Saturday morning. The officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter.
RALEIGH – The North Carolina Senate today voted to override Gov. Pat McCrory’s veto of H.B. 392, a bill that requires some applicants to the state’s Work First program for families in need to pay up front for and submit to drug tests as a precondition of aid.
RALEIGH – The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (ACLU-NC) today released its 2013 legislative report card, which rates members of the North Carolina General Assembly based on their votes on various pieces of legislation the ACLU-NC supported or opposed in the most recent session.
RALEIGH –North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory today vetoed H.B. 392, a measure that would have required applicants to the state’s Work First program to submit to costly and invasive drug tests. Gov.