Recent Updates
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High court won't block early voting in Ohio
Politics 10/19/2012The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for voters in the battleground state of Ohio to cast ballots on the three days before Election Day, giving Democrats and President Barack Obama's campaign a victory three weeks before the election. The cou...
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2 King Co. candidates vying for Attorney General
Politics 10/10/2012The two men competing to be Washington's next attorney general are co-workers, but that's about as much similarity King County Councilmen Reagan Dunn and Bob Ferguson will admit to. Dunn, a Republican, and the Democrat Ferguson have been trying to dr...
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Court won't hear anti-gay marriage group appeal
Politics 10/05/2012The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a national anti-gay marriage group that tried to thwart Maine's campaign disclosure law requiring it to release its donor list. The high court turned aside an appeal from the National Organi...
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High court uphold WV congressional districts
Politics 09/27/2012The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld West Virginia's congressional redistricting plan against a challenge that small population variations among its three congressional districts violate the Constitution. The justices, in an unsigned opinion, reversed...
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Appeals court reverses ruling on campaign donors
Politics 09/21/2012An appeals court on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling that likely would have led to greater disclosure of who is paying for certain election ads. In March, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that the Federal Election Commission overstep...
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Mo. high court hears arguments on incentive fund
Politics 09/21/2012Missouri Supreme Court judges are weighing two potentially contradictory sections of legislation while deciding whether a new law creating an incentive fund for high-tech businesses can take effect. Arguments Wednesday before the high court focused o...
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Federal agency charged with enforcing consumer finance laws
Politics 09/13/2012The new federal agency charged with enforcing consumer finance laws is emerging as an ambitious sheriff, taking on companies for deceptive fees and marketing and unmoved by protests that its tactics go too far. In the 14 months it has existed, the Co...
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N.Y. probing equity firms, including Bain
Politics 09/05/2012New York's attorney general is investigating tax strategies of some of the nation's largest private equity firms, including Bain Capital, founded by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, an official familiar with the probe said Sunday. Attorne...
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Federal court rejects GOP-drawn Texas voting maps
Politics 08/29/2012Stadiums and hospitals removed from the districts of black congressional members and country clubs newly drawn into those of white incumbents. A lawyer emailing "No bueno" to a Republican staffer about plans that risked leaving a paper trail and jeop...
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Court upholds summary for St. Louis police measure
Politics 08/22/2012A Missouri appellate court has upheld the proposed ballot summary for an initiative that would end state control of the St. Louis Police Department.The Missouri Court of Appeals' Western District ruled Tuesday that the summary is fair and sufficient....
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Judge won't halt Pa. voter identification law
Politics 08/15/2012A Pennsylvania judge isn't stopping a tough new voter identification law from going into effect.Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson on Wednesday refused to grant an injunction that would have halted the law requiring each voter to show a valid ph...
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Fed. appeals court denies ex-Ill. governor appeal
Politics 08/08/2012A federal appellate court in Chicago has denied an appeal filed by imprisoned former Illinois Gov. George Ryan.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals released a 16-page ruling on Monday denying the 78-year-old Republican's appeal.A ruling in his favor...