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Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus tweeted seemingly out of nowhere last week about the Wisconsin State Supreme Court race coming up next month. In her breezy post, she listed fair maps, abortion rights, and control of Congress as the key reasons to get involved. For added measure, she embedded a cheerful video of herself in the tweet encouraging people to get involved, with the promise that she would “lift them up” on social media if they did so:

The Homewood man who killed a family of three in a fiery crash on Thanksgiving in 2016 was initially ordered to serve 70 to 140 years in prison. On Tuesday, following a decision from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Demetrius Coleman, 28, was resentenced to life in prison. Coleman, who had

ERIE – Two county boards of election have opposed litigation from six voters’ rights groups against acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh M. Chapman and all of the county boards of election statewide, in order to compel officials to accept undated mail-in ballots and “not disenfranchise voters based on an immaterial paperwork error.”

Demetrius Coleman allegedly reached speeds of 100 mph while fleeing a traffic stop on Thanksgiving Day in 2016, killing two adults and a toddler.

A man convicted of third-degree murder is facing a mandatory life sentence following a decision from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The man killed three people in a car accident.

A man convicted of third-degree murder in a Thanksgiving Day 2016 crash that killed three people following a police chase can be sentenced to a mandatory life prison term.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a man convicted of third-degree murder in a Thanksgiving Day 2016 crash that killed three people following a police chase can be sentenced to a mandatory life prison term.

ERIE – Six voters’ rights groups have launched litigation against acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh M. Chapman and all of the county boards of election statewide, in order to compel official to accept undated mail-in ballots and “not disenfranchise voters based on an immaterial paperwork error.”

The court is directing county boards of elections to "segregate and preserve" undated ballots.

The court directed county boards of elections to “segregate and preserve” those ballots.