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A Pennsylvania court has ruled that the state’s voter ID law the Republican legislature rammed through and Gov. Tom Corbett (R) signed into law before the 2012 elections is unconstitutional and “unreasonably burdens the right to vote.”
A 4-year-old girl shot dead her 4-year-old cousin with a rifle that she found while playing at her grandfather's house Thursday in Detroit.Police said the "tragic accident" was a case of irresponsible gun ownership but have not yet made any arrests.
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
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A Mississippi man accused of sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama, a senator and a judge is scheduled to appear at change-of-plea hearing Friday.James Everett Dutschke, from Tupelo, Miss., has denied sending letters containing the deadly substance ricin.
Whipping winds look set to hinder a wildfire that forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes on the outskirts of Los Angeles.The fire tore through 1,700 acres of brush in the San Gabriel Mountains and drove some 3,700 people to evacuate.
An "armed and very dangerous" teen was killed after shooting several people including two agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, police said.Henry Jackson "fired several shots and struck at least one person," on Thursday afternoon in Ardmore, Okla.
Police say they have arrested the so-called “Swiss Cheese Pervert,” the man accused of using Swiss cheese to sexually proposition women in the Philadelphia area.
Michelle Obama, who turns 50 on Friday, is only just starting to build her legacy.
The judge overseeing a lawsuit seeking to force a Texas hospital to remove a brain-dead pregnant woman from life support abruptly recused herself from the case Thursday.
