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Miss. Democrat wins House seat in special election Mississippi Democrat Travis Childers won a special election to Congress on Tuesday, helping his party to a third victory in recent months for seats long in Republican hands. The victory puts Childers into the seat vacated by Roger Wicker, a Republican... (Read More) 12 News Stories, 1 Liberal Blog, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 1 hours ago (Wednesday, May 14 2008, 12:53 AM)

Tax limit sets back light-rail plan Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s regional light-rail plan hit a snag with the Missouri legislature this week, and there’s not enough time in the session to fix it. (Read More) 15 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 1 hours ago (Wednesday, May 14 2008, 12:53 AM)

KC Council members look back on their year since their election A year ago, 13 men and women took solemn oaths and pledged to be agents of change for Kansas City. Still, on that May day, no one could have predicted just how much news the Kansas City mayor and his 12 City Council colleagues would make. (Read More) 6 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 1 Conservative Blog, 0 Comments Indexed 1 hours ago (Wednesday, May 14 2008, 12:53 AM)

McCain Pushed Land Swap That Benefits Backer PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally owned property that is ready for development, a land swap that now stands to (Read More) 23 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 3 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 10:53 PM)

Clinton Beats Obama in West Virginia State has long been considered a reliable state for the Clinton campaign. (Read More) 27 News Stories, 17 Liberal Blogs, 6 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 4 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 09:52 PM)

Cheney campaigns in Mississippi for congressional candidate SOUTHAVEN, Miss. | Vice President Dick Cheney traveled to this Memphis suburb on Monday in an eleventh-hour effort by the Republican Party to hang on to a U.S. House seat that it has long held but that appears at risk of becoming the third Democratic gai (Read More) 3 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 4 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 09:52 PM)

Anonymous rape tests are going nationwide Starting next year across the country, rape victims too afraid or too ashamed to go to police can undergo an emergency-room forensic rape exam, and the evidence gathered will be kept on file in a sealed envelope in case they decide to press charges. (Read More) 5 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 4 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 09:52 PM)

Ultrasounds help find breast cancer and many harmless spots Screening women with both ultrasounds and mammograms allows doctors to find more breast cancers than if they rely on mammograms ... (Read More) 4 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 4 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 09:52 PM)

Bush calls new attack on US his worst worry President Bush said Tuesday he was disappointed in "flawed intelligence" before the Iraq war and was concerned that if a Democrat wins the presidency in November and withdrew troops prematurely it could "eventually lead to another attack on the United Sta (Read More) 6 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 4 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 09:52 PM)

President plans Kansas visit to support local candidate TOPEKA | President Bush is scheduled to attend a luncheon raising money for Republican congressional candidate Nick Jordan later this month. (Read More) 3 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 6 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 07:52 PM)

Sparring Over Gas Tax Continues INDIANAPOLIS, May 3 -- Sen. Barack Obama sought to shore up support among working-class voters Saturday as he launched a closing drive to secure a pair of primary victories on Tuesday that could end Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's hopes of wresting the Demo (Read More) 120 News Stories, 8 Liberal Blogs, 1 Conservative Blog, 0 Comments Indexed 7 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 06:52 PM)

Senate backs effort to lower gas prices The Senate voted 97-1 Tuesday to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for six months in an effort to bring gas prices down, a move President Bush opposes. (Read More) 30 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 1 Conservative Blog, 0 Comments Indexed 8 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 05:53 PM)

Deputies kill 2 in shootout near SoCal casino Deputies shot and killed two people who had opened fire near an Indian casino in Southern California and had fired at a sheriff's helicopter as officers chased them into the hills of the reservation. (Read More) 8 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 10 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 03:53 PM)

Detroit City Council moves toward ousting mayor The City Council narrowly approved taking the first step Tuesday toward removing Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is charged with perjury over explicit text messages sent to a former aide. (Read More) 3 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 10 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 03:53 PM)

Congress Eyes Major Expansion Of GI Bill Congressional Democrats are pushing what could become the most dramatic expansion of college aid for military veterans since World War II, with a bill they hope will buoy them this election season and become an albatross for Republicans. (Read More) 6 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 11 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 02:52 PM)

U.S.: N. Korean nuke papers appear complete A preliminary review of thousands of nuclear documents turned over to the United States by North Korea indicates they appear ... (Read More) 5 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 2 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 11 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 02:52 PM)

Dad jailed after daughter fails to get diploma A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter studied has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma. (Read More) 7 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 1 Conservative Blog, 0 Comments Indexed 11 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 02:52 PM)

Texas authorities investigate more polygamy charges Behind guarded, ornate gates at the end of a rural road, a self-proclaimed prophet warns his followers about the end of time and rails against a dangerous and unclean world outside their West Texas compound. (Read More) 5 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 11 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 02:52 PM)

Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg dies Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died, his gallery representative said Tuesday. He was 82. (Read More) 6 News Stories, 0 Liberal Blogs, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 11 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 02:52 PM)

Report: Death toll in China quake exceeds 12,000 The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades. The official Xinhua News Agency said the death toll exceede (Read More) 7 News Stories, 1 Liberal Blog, 0 Conservative Blogs, 0 Comments Indexed 12 hours ago (Tuesday, May 13 2008, 01:52 PM)