There are many moving parts when it comes to running an election. A new study shows Illinois does a pretty good job when it comes to counting absentee ballots for service members overseas...
Springfield Alderman and candidate for the 96th State Representative District Sam Cahnman is asking a judge to throw out a no contact order against him...
Leadership scramble: GOP rivals vie for title
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican presidential contenders are making a pitch to voters that sounds a lot like a children's game: Follow the leader....
Feisty Gingrich stakes campaign on electability
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) -- Newt Gingrich has staked his presidential bid on one idea: that he is best positioned to defeat President Barack Obama. Even some of his supporters seem to be struggling to buy the former House speaker's claim, an indication that chief rival Mitt Romney's efforts to undercut him may be working....
AP Interview: Roubini warns of tough times ahead
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Economist Nouriel Roubini, nicknamed "Dr. Doom" for his gloomy predictions in the run-up to the financial meltdown four years ago, says the fallout from that crisis could last the rest of this decade....
Despair, crackdowns breed more violence in Tibet
BEIJING (AP) -- A young man posts his photo with a leaflet demanding freedom for Tibet and telling Chinese police, come and get me. Protesters rise up to defend him, and demonstrations break out in two other Tibetan areas of western China to support the same cause....
Need for courtroom artists fade as cameras move in
CHICAGO (AP) -- One marker in hand and one in his mouth, Lou Chukman glances up and down from a sketchpad to a reputed Chicago mobster across the courtroom - drawing feverishly to capture the drama of the judge's verdict before the moment passes....
