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With just six weeks until the presidential election, a judge raised the possibility Tuesday that he would move to block Pennsylvania’s controversial voter ID law. ”I’m giving you a heads-up,” Commonwealth Court Judge Robert E. Simpson Jr. told lawyers after a day’s testimony on whether the law is being implemented in ways that ensure no voters will be disenfranchised. “I think it’s a possibility there could be an injunction here.” Simpson then asked lawyers on both sides to be prepared to return to court Thursday to present arguments on what such an injunction should look like. There is no hearing...

A criminal complaint alleges Chester Academy Principal Ernest Jackson entered the home without permission when the two boys didn’t come to school in late September, and actually tried to coax them out of their beds.

Condemned to an early death: Rationing body tells liver cancer victims that life-prolonging drug is 'too costly' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229090/Condemned-early-death-Rationing-body-tells-liver-cancer-victims-life-prolonging-drug-costly.html Liver cancer sufferers are being condemned to an early death by being denied a new drug on the Health Service, campaigners warn. They criticised draft guidance that will effectively ban the drug sorafenib - which is routinely used in every other country where it is licensed. Trials show the drug, which costs £36,000 a year, can increase survival by around six months for patients who have run out of options.

ABC News' Gregory Wallace and Sara Just Report: Sen. John McCain, R-Az., perhaps unknowingly, volunteered his wife for a beauty pageant on Monday that often features contestants topless

A 78-year-old woman has reached her final destination after dying while on a cross-country flight. Officials with Delta Airlines said the woman died on a flight to Salt Lake City over the weekend. According to the flight crew and passengers, no one realized she had passed away until after the plane landed. Flight attendants said they only realized what had happened once the plane began to empty out. One EMT at the scene said the woman was dead long enough for rigor mortis to set in. An autopsy is being performed to determine how the woman died.