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While voter turnout for round one of the U.S. Senate race was predictably low, Berkshire County residents who did cast ballots on Tuesday were solidly behind their chosen candidates.

Republican hopefuls in the race for the U.S. Senate, Mass. State Rep. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, left, and businessman Jack E. Robinson, right, chat with moderator Emily Rooney, center, moments before a debate recorded for broadcast on the show Greater Boston at the WGBH television studios in Boston, Monday, Dec.

With tame discussion and a nearly empty public gallery, the Florida Houseput itself in position Friday to pass out sweeping rail legislation that envisions more than $5 billion in mass transit projects, from Central Florida'sSunRailto the controversial bullet train betweenOrlandoand Tampa.

President Barack Obama unveiled his long-awaited Afghanistan strategy on Dec. 2 that included a plan to deploy an additional 30,000 troops and an ambitious timetable to begin withdrawing troops by July 2011.

A Richmond-area immigrant who wrote a blood-covered letter promising to behead a U.S. consul in Vietnam was acquitted today of charges of threatening a federal official.

Three incumbents are up for reelection to the Portsmouth City Council next spring, and although she has not officially done so, Marlene Randall said she will be seeking a third term.

In his prime address earlier tonight, President Obama laid out his three point strategy for bringing what he called "a successful conclusion" to the war in Afghanistan.

Candidates for the State Legislature still have several months before they file to run in the 2010 Primary Election.

Speaking on MSNBC this week, NY Congressman Maurice Hinchey accused the Bush Administration of intentionally allowing Osama bin Laden to escape after 9/11. Here's the video .

Textbooks could be going the way of slide rules and Big Chief tablets within a few years in Texas classrooms.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan planned to tour An Achievable Dream Academy today.

By SHIRLEY JINKINS Textbooks could be going the way of slide rules and Big Chief tablets within a few years in Texas classrooms.State legislation passed in the spring could put up-to-the-minute instructional content at students' fingertips - either online or in customized printed form - eliminating the mass-market hardback textbook.The sea ...

For House GOPers, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a familiar punching bag. But after another loss in an election in which Pelosi was an issue, some Dems are wondering just what the GOP is thinking.

As Senate Democrats prepare to bring a health care bill to the floor this month, they might want to reflect on comments made by Democrats from New York and other states who voted against the House version passed last Nov.

Democrat Congressman Kurt Schrader, from Oregon's 5th District, and his declared Republican challenger in next year's primary, State Rep.

Republican state Rep. Scott Tipton said Wednesday that he intends to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep.

State Rep. Scott Tipton is getting into the race to represent Colorado's 3rd Congressional District.

The Capital Region's members of the House of Representatives voted on opposite sides of the health care issue after months of heated rhetoric finally led to a floor vote Saturday night.

Three of the six Democrats in Virginia's U.S. House delegation remain undecided heading into this weekend's pivotal vote on President Barack Obama's 10-year, $1.2 trillion health-care overhaul.

Susan Hutchison's "thank you" letter to supporters this morning is anything but defeatist.