The first inmate to die by lethal injection in Ohio in more than a year argued to the end that his obesity would make it difficult for prison staff to find suitable veins in his arms to deliver the deadly chemicals. ...more

October 15, 2008

John Edwards and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Sen. Barack Obama's praise of former President Reagan - an anathema for many Democrats, particularly union members considered crucial to winning Nevada's Democratic caucuses today. ...more

January 19, 2008

More than 150 Iowans were rustling in their chairs at a community college the other night, waiting for John Edwards. His bus was parked and running outside the door, but it was nearly 45 minutes before he finally made his characteristically late entrance. ...more

December 19, 2007

The parents and grandmother of two students in Miami whose fight for legal immigration status came to symbolize the hopes of illegal immigrant students were deported Tuesday to Colombia. ...more

October 31, 2007