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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A battle is raging for the Texas congressional seat that represents President Bush's adopted home of Crawford, and redistricting, religion and a cross-dressing scandal are weighing in the race.
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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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A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.
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THE long and bitter presidential campaign will (it is widely and devoutly hoped) be over in nine days. One man will win, and the voters will be rewarded with either George W. Bush&#39;s &quot;ownership
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If you live and die by the polls and you are a John Kerry supporter youâve probably had a few near death experiences of late. Very few polls have shown John Kerry leading in the 2004 presidential race, and
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A man whose family has been hit by tragedy speaks of how he and his brother tried to save their brother's life.
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A man diagnosed with terminal lung cancer who was planning to host his own living wake has died.
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As comebacks go, John McCain's is one  for the ages. Politically dead six months ago, the 71-year-old  senator has sealed his new lease on life, vaulting him to  favorite for the Republican presidential nomination.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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In a move that Republicans hope will raise the visibility of their difficult write-in campaign to hold resigned former Majority Leader Tom DeLayÃ¢ÂÂs former House seat in the general election, Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry announced Wednesday that a special election to fill the final weeks of DeLayÃ¢ÂÂs unexpired term will also appear on the Nov. 7 ballot.
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The deciding votes in this critical battleground state could be cast long before President Bush and Sen. John Kerry make their final pleas to voters.
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HOUSTON, Texas  - Texas Gov. Rick Perry granted a  rare stay of execution to a Houston woman just hours before she  was scheduled to die on Wednesday night by lethal injection for  the 1987 murder of her husband and two children.
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The widower of a motor neurone disease sufferer  who fought for assisted suicide is to remarry.
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SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 10 -- Almost everywhere nationwide, the midterm elections are but a distant memory, supplanted by Christmas shopping and holiday parties. But here, candidates are still battling to determine the makeup of the House and the fate of Texas's first Hispanic Republican elected to...
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida  - 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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Action film star and presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr., who refused to concede May's election, died Tuesday after suffering a stroke. He was 65.