Dying Texas Man Casts His Vote
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In the 10 days after Welch Flippin decided to stop dialysis and began succumbing to kidney failure, the 85-year-old Texas farmer and World War II veteran had something on his mind. Something, he told his son, he just had to do. He wanted to vote.
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November 21, 2004 -- Palestinians began registering candidates yesterday for a presidential election to replace Yasser Arafat, as the late leader&#39;s family considers releasing his medical records and revealing his cause of death.
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One leading candidate has been debilitated by what he said was an attempt to poison him.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man was put to death  by lethal injection on Wednesday for murdering two teen-agers  while high on drugs in 1995.
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There is a new presidential candidate named Ray Hopewood â but believe in him at your peril.
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Gov. Sonny Perdue on Thursday called for a June 19 special election to fill the House seat left vacant by the death of GOP Rep. Charles Norwood.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man convicted of a  1992 murder was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday despite  questions about the evidence against him and pleas from the  family of his presumed victim to spare his life.
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He died after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 80.
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Republican Alan Keyes needs votes, so he is here to meet and greet and make nice. This is a daunting task. Not many of his fellow Republicans have expressed great interest in the the former presidential candidate now running for a Senate seat from Illinois.
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SAN CARLOS CITY -- Officials, relatives and supporters of Fernando Poe Jr. grieved upon knowing the death of the movie actor Tuesday.
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For Florida voters  like Lynn Braun, Mark Foley's fall from grace has left them  feeling queasy and facing a dilemma over how and whether to  vote in the November congressional election.
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The widower of a motor neurone disease sufferer  who fought for assisted suicide is to remarry.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man, who became pen  pals with actress Susan Sarandon while on death row, was put to  death by lethal injection on Thursday for murdering a  convenience store clerk during a 1985 robbery.
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The widow of a man who had an assisted suicide in Switzerland says people should be able to choose how to die.
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Long after President George W. Bush has retired to his Texas ranch, his fellow Republicans may have to deal with Hispanic voter backlash over his failed immigration reform.
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By John Moritz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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There's the poor, 32-year-old mother of seven who says it would cost her at least $50 to vote in person. There's also the 92-year-old woman who's voted for decades in the same polling place, but now can't vote there because she let her driver's license expire when her eyesight began to fail.