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• A divided panel of federal appeals court judges in Washington said that the age of the information being used is less important than whether it helps identify jurisdictions with the worst discrimination problems.
• Shelby County, a well-to-do, mostly white bedroom community near Birmingham, adopted Roberts' arguments in its effort to have the voting rights provision declared unconstitutional.
• Yet just a few years earlier, a town of nearly 12,000 people in Shelby County defied the voting rights law and prompted the intervention of the Bush Justice Department.
• Ernest Montgomery won election as the only black member of the five-person Calera City Council in 2004 in a district that was almost 71 percent black. The city redrew its district lines in 2006 after new subdivisions and retail developments sprang up in the area Montgomery represented, and the change left his district with a population that was only 23 percent black.
• Running against a white opponent in the now mostly white district, Montgomery narrowly lost a re-election bid in 2008. The Justice Department invalidated the election result because the city had failed to obtain advance approval of the new districts.
• The case is Shelby County v. Holder, 12-96.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The National Weather Service has issued a variety of winter weather advisories, watches and warnings for North Dakota as a storm moves in from the Rockies.
• Forecasters say the storm will bring heavy snow to some areas of the state and freezing drizzle to others. It will linger through the weekend. Areas of South Dakota also could see snow or a mix of rain and snow, though the worst conditions are expected to be in North Dakota.
• The North Dakota Department of Transportation has issued a no-travel advisory for the northwest region of the state due to freezing rain.
• A travel alert is in effect in southwestern and south central North Dakota due to poor driving conditions including freezing rain and scattered ice.
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• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- Harding County quarterback Jess Feist threw for 290

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