Rep. Henry Waxman - a liberal ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi - has wrested the chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee from veteran Rep. John Dingell when the new Congress convenes in January. ...more

November 20, 2008

What does lousy cell phone service have to do with honoring this nation's veterans? Usually, nothing. But some county officials want to link the two concepts by resurrecting a controversial plan for a veteran's memorial on the south end of Anna Maria Island, near Leffis Key. ...more

September 4, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign aired a new radio ad here Wednesday that repeated a discredited charge against Sen. Barack Obama in what some Democrats said is part of an increasing pattern of hardball politics by her and former President Clinton. ...more

January 24, 2008

Mike Huckabee apologized to Mitt Romney on Wednesday for raising questions about the Mormon faith, again pushing religion to the fore of an increasingly bitter fight for the Republican presidential nomination. ...more

December 13, 2007