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FILE - In this Aug. 6, 1965, photo, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a ceremony in the President's Room near the Senate Chambers on Capitol Hill in Washington. Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened voting booths to millions of African-Americans. Now, opponents of a key part of the Voting Rights Act are asking the high court to finish that provision off. Surrounding the president from left directly above his right hand, Vice President Hubert Humphrey; House Speaker John McCormack; Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y.; first daughter Luci Johnson; and Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill. Behind Humphrey is House Majority Leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma; and behind Celler is Sen. Carl Hayden, D-Ariz. (AP Photo)

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High court weighs new look at voting rights law

Mark Sherman, Jay Reeves -

October 28, 2012 4:00 am

In this aerial photo, a Louisiana National Guard helicopter carries a sandbag to drop in an unintentional levee breach as it flies over the floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac in Braithwaite, La., Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. Thousands of electric customers are still without power, hundreds remained in shelters and several miles of coast line was tarred with weathered oil washing ashore, days after Isaac raked Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Oil from BP spill uncovered by Isaac’s waves

Jay Reeves, Cain Burdeau -

September 5, 2012 4:00 am

A crime scene unit investigates a home at 4106 4th Ave. East near Watermelon Road in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Tuesday, July 17, 2012 where a shooting on Monday injured one person, and allegedly lead to a related shooting early Tuesday that wounded nearly a dozen people, at a bar in Tuscaloosa. A gunman who fired into a crowded bar turned himself in Tuesday, several hours after the rampage, police said. Police have not identified him. (AP Photo/Tuscaloosa News, Dusty Compton)

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Accused Ala. bar gunman charged in 2nd shooting

Jay Reeves, Jeff Martin -

July 17, 2012 4:00 am