TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• The courtship of black voters in South Carolina (Los Angeles Times)
• Secretary of state will decide if Cuyahoga Falls independents are really Republicans (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
• Board deadlocks-Ohio's secretary of state will decide who's independent (Warsmith Beacon Journal)
• Blueprint Louisiana: Reform Agenda Needed-independent John Georges the only candidate to sign on (Bayou Buzz)