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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Supreme Court will take up the challenge to the state's voter identification law and has ordered election officials to accept Memphis photo library cards at the polls.


The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Secretary of State Tre Hargett and state Elections Coordinator Mark Goins to advise the Shelby County Election Commission to accept the library IDs for Tuesday's election.


Hargett and Goins had appealed a Court of Appeals decision that ruled the library cards were government-issued photo IDs.


When the appeal request was filed, the election officials made those who showed the library card during early voting cast a provisional ballot, which might not be counted on Election Day.


Thursday is the last day of early voting for the general election.


AP-WF-11-01-12 1522GMT

VOTE 2012-Photo Library Cards Accepted Election Day

Thursday, November 1 2012, 12:58 PM CDT

Tennessee News

Pharmacist admits misbranding dialysis drugs
May 21, 2013 21:08 GMT

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- A Tennessee pharmacist has admitted distributing a misbranded Chinese-made drug that was given to kidney dialysis patients in Kansas.

The U.S. Attorney's office says 53-year-old Robert Harshbarger Jr., of Kingsport, Tenn., pleaded guilty Tuesday in Topeka to one count each of distributing a misbranded drug and health care fraud.

Harshbarger admitted that from 2004 to 2009, he substituted a cheaper Chinese import for an iron sucrose drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The drugs were given to patients of Kansas Dialysis Services. Prosecutors say there were no reports of harm, but patients were put at risk because the FDA could not assure the drugs' effectiveness and safety.

Harshbarger's plea deal calls for four years in prison, restitution of nearly $849,000 and a forfeiture of $425,000.

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