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The Democrat is racking up political victories as a fiscal conservative and rave reviews by most New Yorkers for his $25 billion plan to lure employers, usher in the nation's biggest convention center, expand casino gambling, and improve schools... more »
Fourteen years later, the issue is before the Legislature once again after a multiyear effort that has incrementally increased rights to gay and lesbian couples in the state. Gay marriage has won the backing of several prominent Pacific... more »
On an unseasonably warm morning this past week, the Vietnam veteran kicked back on his front porch in the tiny town of Wesson and proudly displayed Executive Order No. 1083, one of nearly 200 pardons former Gov. Haley Barbour signed in his final... more »
(AP) โ In the legal showdown over the convicted killers pardoned by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, dozens of people who served time years ago for lesser crimes could lose the chance to clear their records because the state Parole Board... more »
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) โ A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for stabbing his teenage girlfriend in the face inside a supermarket in western New York. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports (http://on.rocne.ws/wuwTbU... more »
WASHINGTON (AP) โ Lawmakers reached a compromise Friday that toughens the rules airline and railroad workers must follow to hold union elections, boosting prospects for passage of a long-term funding plan for the Federal Aviation... more »
Is it too much to ask our presidents to uphold the Constitution, command the armed forces, execute the nation's laws โ AND provide us with a little musical interlude? The question comes to mind in the wake of Barack Obama's appearance at the... more »
BALTIMORE (AP) โ House Republican leaders pleaded for elusive unity from the disparate factions in their party as they pursue a dual election-year prize of retaining their majority and denying President Barack Obama a second term. Looking... more »
(AP) โ Pennsylvania's state House majority leader, Mike Turzai, told top Republican Party officials this week he plans to run for a U.S. House seat in southwestern Pennsylvania, two party activists said Friday. Turzai is informing key people... more »
WASHINGTON (AP) โ The Supreme Court handed Texas Republicans a partial victory Friday, tossing a court-drawn electoral redistricting plan that favored minorities and Democrats but leaving the future of the state's political maps - and possibly... more »