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With just 90 days to the primary election contest, candidates for Kentucky’s second district State Senate seat are campaigning for their party’s…

There was a time when secretaries of state were seen as little more than functionaries. That view changed in 2000's Florida presidential election recount, which starred Katherine Harris. Now, secretaries of state are involved in implementing new state laws that have been making it either easier or harder for non-traditional voters to cast ballots — with decidedly partisan implications.

Details about a suspected murder at Jackson, Tennessee’s Union University came to light Tuesday during the arraignment of a student from Milan. Charles…

A Western Kentucky coal miner is alleging several counts of workplace discrimination, after he reported safety problems at his job and was fired....

A pharmacy in Tulsa, Okla., has decided not to provide the Missouri Department of Corrections with the drugs needed to execute an inmate on death row. Securing access to necessary drugs has become a common problem in states trying to carry out the death penalty.

The Michael Dunn trial became a flashpoint for ongoing debates about race, criminal justice, and politics that it's not capable of resolving.

The FBI is investigating an incident at the University of Mississippi, where vandals draped a noose on a statue of a civil rights pioneer. The statue on the Oxford campus commemorates the enrollment of the first black student at Ole Miss in 1962, which was accompanied by riots.

Duck Derbies are very popular in Wisconsin. Because they involve placing bets on rubber duckies dropped into a fast-moving river, they are technically illegal. Wisconsin lawmakers have passed a bill exempting rubber duck high-rollers from a ban on gambling.

The Michigan power plant dumps a lot of warm water into Lake Erie. The warm water attracts fish. The fish in turn attract bald eagles. Almost 200 of them have been nesting at the plant.

House Speaker Greg Stumbo has cosponsored a bill that would protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees from workplace discrimination.Stumbo…