News of the Day From Across the Nation, July 21

Texas’ strict voter ID law discriminates against minorities and the poor and must quickly be scrubbed of those effects before the November election, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

The ruling was a striking election-year victory for the administration of President Obama, which had taken the unusual step of bringing the U.S. Justice Department into Texas to help fight the case.

The parents of a toddler killed by an alligator at Walt Disney World say they don’t plan to sue the theme park resort over the death.

[...] prosecutors say they’ll drop six criminal child endangerment charges that alleged the archdiocese turned a blind eye to repeated misconduct by Curtis Wehmeyer, who was convicted of molesting two boys in Minnesota and one in Wisconsin.

Kevin J. Rodriguez at Fort Campbell, Ky., was preceded by a soldier’s failure to account for his possession of live ammunition and unit leaders’ failure to conduct brass and ammo checks.

Two live rounds struck Rodriguez in his chest protector while a third struck his upper left arm and chest area and entered his heart, killing him.

The Caledonian Record reports that a Coos County grand jury returned an indictment Friday with one felony and seven misdemeanors against Walker International Events of Sarasota, Fla.