Politics

  • State voter ID laws differ and create different challenges

    Updated: Thu Sep 6, 2012 6:18 PM

    A quirk in Tennessee law has some senior citizens scrambling to get new identification so they can vote in November.

  • Dems open convention, stage for a tested president

    Updated: Tue Sep 4, 2012 3:09 AM

    Four years later Democrats have gathered again, this time in support of a president who carries the power and the burden of incumbency. Both are in evidence as the opening gavel is struck at the Democratic National Convention.

  • Delegates eager to hear Romney's speech at RNC Convention

    Updated: Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:24 PM

    Excitement is building within the Republican party as Mitt Romney will officially accept the party's nomination for President of the United States Friday night.

  • GOP delays convention business due to Isaac

    Updated: Sat Aug 25, 2012 6:20 PM

    The Republican Party will delay the bulk of its convention until Tuesday afternoon because of the severe weather forecast from Isaac.

  • AP Interview: Obama on Romney's 'extreme' views

    Updated: Sat Aug 25, 2012 2:01 PM

    President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney has locked himself into "extreme positions" on economic and social issues and would impose them if elected.

  • Romney appeals to women entrepreneurs at Ohio rally

    Updated: Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:59 PM

    Mitt Romney is promising to promote women-led businesses if he's elected president.

  • Romney: Birth certificate comment was just a joke

    Updated: Fri Aug 24, 2012 8:11 PM

    Mitt Romney says it was just a joke and not an effort to question President Barack Obama's citizenship.

  • RNC: Ann Romney to address convention Tuesday

    Updated: Fri Aug 24, 2012 8:07 PM

    Republican National Convention officials say Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, will speaking during prime time television coverage of the event.

  • Akin reaffirms plans to stay in the race

    Updated: Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:44 PM

    Embattled Missouri Congressman Todd Akin is reaffirming plans to stay in Missouri's U.S. Senate race despite a political uproar over remarks he made about rape and pregnancy.

  • Senate candidate's comments on rape stir outcry

    Updated: Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:49 AM

    Missouri Congressman Todd Akin has sparked a furor after saying women's bodies can prevent pregnancies in "a legitimate rape" and that conception is rare in such cases.

  • Paducah receives millions from federal government for riverfront project

    Updated: Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:36 PM

    Paducah's riverfront is getting a multi-million dollar make-over as part of $470 million in federal funds released by the Department of Transportation for nationwide construction projects.

  • Romney campaign disagrees with Akin rape comments

    Updated: Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:07 PM

    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is distancing himself from a Missouri congressman who says a woman's body "has ways" to prevent pregnancy after rape.

  • Sen. McCaskill reacts to Akin's 'Legitimate Rape' Remarks

    Updated: Sun Aug 19, 2012 4:32 PM

    McCaskill for Missouri 2012 released the following statement from Sen. Claire McCaskill after Todd Akin said women who are victims of "legitimate rape" don't get pregnant because their bodies have a way to "shut that whole thing down."

  • Rep. Akin: Pregnancy from rape is 'really rare'

    Updated: Sun Aug 19, 2012 4:31 PM

    Rep. Todd Akin, Missouri's GOP Senate candidate, has questioned whether women can become pregnant when they're raped.

  • Romney, Ryan said to see eye-to-eye on Medicare funding

    Updated: Sun Aug 19, 2012 4:30 PM

    An adviser to Mitt Romney says Romney and running mate Paul Ryan are now in agreement -- that they will restore the $716 billion that President Barack Obama and Ryan himself each proposed cutting from the growth in Medicare spending over 10 years.

  • Romney mingles at Massachusetts restaurant

    Updated: Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:29 PM

    Mitt Romney is briefly mingling with voters in Massachusetts even though he has no hopes of winning the state this fall.

  • Ryan's 78-year-old mom joins him at campaign rally

    Updated: Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:27 PM

    Vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan says his family relied on Medicare to take care of his grandmother, and his mother now counts on the program in retirement.

  • Pres. Obama slams Romney, Ryan on Medicare

    Updated: Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:24 PM

    President Barack Obama sharply criticized rival Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan on Medicare, saying the Republican challengers would alter the health care system for older Americans by making them pay more so wealthy taxpayers can get a tax break.

  • Green Party candidate added to House race

    Updated: Wed Aug 8, 2012 2:42 PM

    The race to replace a retiring southern Illinois congressman will now include a third-party candidate.

  • Princeton voters say yes to alcohol

    Updated: Tue Aug 7, 2012 11:14 PM

    After countless radio ads, newspaper articles and yard signs urging folks to say yes or no to alcohol, the voters decided.

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