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    Appeals court rules Duggan's name comes off ballot

    Posted 3:53 PM 6/18/2013

    DETROIT (AP) The former chief of Detroit Medical Center doesn't meet residency requirements to run for mayor and his name shouldn't appear on the ballot for the Aug. 6 primary elections, Michigan's Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday

    Mike Duggan, considered among the leading candidates to (More)


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    Yarmuth announces he'll run for another term

    Posted 1:56 PM 6/18/2013

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) The only Democrat left in Kentucky's congressional delegation says he will run for re-election next year.

    U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth sent an email to supporters Tuesday announcing he'll seek a fifth term in 2014.

    Yarmuth has represented the Louisville area's 3rd (More)


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    Beshear: Congressional redistricting may be redone

    Posted 1:05 PM 6/17/2013

    FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Gov. Steve Beshear says congressional redistricting completed last year may have to be redone in an upcoming special legislative session.

    That's because lawmakers who have been battling over legislative boundaries are looking to exclude federal prisoners from Kentucky's (More)


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    NC Sen. Hagan facing powerful GOP force in 2014

    Posted 1:11 AM 6/17/2013

    RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (AP) Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina rode President Barack Obama's coattails in 2008, winning a seat Republicans had held for nearly four decades.

    Now Hagan faces a powerful Republican rebound as she seeks a second term in November 2014. Her saving (More)


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    Ark. Sen. Pryor hit from right, left before 2014

    Posted 6:11 AM 6/16/2013

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The conservative Club for Growth tags Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor as President Barack Obama's "closest ally" in the state. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun-control advocacy group says Pryor "let us down."

    Pryor's re-election race is 17 months away, but the (More)


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