The Boston Globe - Sun Nov 01
The US Supreme Court is considering, for the third time, the case of a California man who was sentenced to die in 1982 for the brutal killing of a young woman.
Jobless rate key in '10 elections?Denver Daily News - Sun Nov 01
The key number in next year's U.S. congressional election may be the unemployment rate, which last month hit a 26-year high of 9.8 percent.
Va. gubernatorial candidates ply voters in race's last daysDelaware Beachcomber - Sun Nov 01
Democrat Creigh Deeds says polls predicting his lopsided loss in the governor's race mean nothing if his party can tap the Democrats who made the party triumphant last year.
Scorn for property taxes drives NJ governor's raceKansas.com - Sat Oct 31
These Oct. 2009 file photos show the three candidates for governor of New Jersey, from left, Democrat Jon.
Poll shows McDonnell widens leadDaily Progress - Sat Oct 31
Republican Bob McDon-nell appears poised to win the governorship and lead a GOP sweep Tuesday, ending nearly a decade of reverses for his party, according a poll commissioned for The Daily Progress and other newspapers.
6 Guantanamo Detainees Resettle In PalauWPLG - Sat Oct 31
Six Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay but still wanted at home as separatists arrived Sunday on their new tropical island home of Palau after the tiny Pacific nation agreed to a U.S. request to resettle the men.
Dividing And Conquering In State RacesForbes Autos - Wed Oct 28
Three November elections with national impact. This may be an off-year election, but two governor's races and one congressional district are making national news.
Lawmakers urge governors to start water talksTifton Gazette - Wed Oct 28
Georgia, Florida and Alabama don't agree on much when it comes to water. But the states' congressional delegations emerged from a meeting Wednesday united in a call for their feuding governors to get moving on water talks.
2 passenger jets were only about 82 feet apart on ground at Los Angeles airportPhiladelphia's WB 17 - Wed Oct 28
The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday a runway incursion put a taxiing jet about 82 feet from a departing airliner - less than half the separation required by aviation rules.
Bomb in market kills 80 in northwestern PakistanStar-telegram.com - Wed Oct 28
By RIAZ KHAN A government official says the death toll in a market bombing in northwestern Pakistan has risen to at least 80 people.North West Frontier Province Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain says 200 were wounded in Wednesday's attack in Peshawar city.The blast coincided with a trip to Pakistan by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary ...
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