CURRENT EVENTS DAY!!!

NATIONAL POLITICS

• Efforts to restore the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 have stalled in Congress,
• but the voting rights debate is alive and well at the state level. In the past week,
• there were new developments in several states over voter ID laws, one of the most
• controversial forms of voting laws.

STATE POLITICS

• SC is one of two states that has no passed any laws about driving while using cellphones
• Different cities have passed laws, but it's gets confusing for the citizens while driving
• A state wide texting ban is gaining followers
• And Miss S.C. 2013 Brooke Mosteller said "2014 is the year to pass the ban"

LOCAL EVENTS

• Heather Elvis recently went missing a few months ago.
• From the socastee area.
• Two suspects were arrested and charged.
• They got charged for murdering her.
• Her body is yet to be discovered.

ENTERTAINMENT

• Justin Bieber is counting on "the truth" to set him free.
• In a series of tweets lamenting all the "rumors" he's facing, the 20-year-old pop star
• seems to have responded to allegations that he attempted to rob a woman of her cell phone
• He finds it hard to defend himself

SPORTS

• Less than a year after Aaron Hernandez was charged with the murder
• of former semipro football player Odin Lloyd,
• a double murder charge stemming from a 2012 shooting.