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Not long after the Illinois attorney general, Lisa Madigan, told a national television audience that Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois was thinking of pos

A small central Alabama county whose mainly black residents gave Barack Obama more than 70 percent of the vote on Election Day has created an annual holiday in honor of the president-elect.

The Perry County Commission voted 4 to 1 to observe the second Monday in November as "The Bara

A judge dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday and told the southern Texas prosecutor who brought the case to exercise caution as his term in office ends.

Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra had accuse

Two Lorain residents filed complaints against a pair of city police officers Tuesday alleging that they made racially inappropriate comments.

Jerome K. Phillips Jr., 35, of Garden Avenue, contends the officers who arrested him Nov. 19 on a temporary p

As the number of people filing claims for unemployment benefits hits a 16-year high, states are imposing higher taxes on employers and reducing benefits to replenish dwindling accounts.
 
Funds to pay unemployment benefits were down in 32 states as of Sept. 30 compared with a year

Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri has criticized President-elect Barack Obama, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that Obama is a black American who does the bidding of whites.

In an audio message which appeared on militant Web sites Wednesday, al-Zawahri said that Obama is "

Democrats may have been the big victors on Election Day. But the Republicans still in charge in the White House and representing a possibly immovable minority in the Senate may keep the U.S. auto industry from getting the help it needs before Barack Obama is inaugurated as president in January. <