Wilmington, NC News

September was a very dry month in Wilmington.

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PETE YOST
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules.

At a news conference Monday, Holder said “by restricting access and ease of voter participation, this new law would shrink, rather than expand, access” to voting.

“Allowing limits on voting rights that disproportionately exclude minority voters would be inconsistent with our ideals as a nation,” Holder said.

The lawsuit against North Carolina is the latest effort by the Obama administration to counter a Supreme Court decision that struck down the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act and freed states, many of them in the South, from strict federal oversight of their elections.

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A plea deal was reached Monday morning in a case involving a man accused of killing Reginald Bunton in Solomon Towers on Castle Street in 2010.

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The Hannah Block parking lot next to the Community Arts Center downtown has been a hot topic of discussion ever since the shooting death of Joshua Proutey last December, and Wilmington City Council members saw plans for renovating the lot Monday morning at their agenda briefing.

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The festival’s finalized film lineup was also unveiled at the party.

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