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By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times
MORRISVILLE, Pa. — Trying to quilt together a patchwork of states that would give him the White House, Mitt Romney ricocheted around...
By Kathleen Hennessey, Washington Bureau
CONCORD, N.H. — Promising to champion the voiceless in Washington, President Obama bounced from battleground to battleground on Sunday...
By Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
CINCINNATI — It would be unfair to suggest that the fates of President Obama and Mitt Romney rest on the shoulders of two devoted...
By Maeve Reston and Kathleen Hennessey, Los Angeles Times
CLEVELAND — In the final days of the presidential race, Mitt Romney and President Obama have, to varying degrees, embraced a theme...
Associated Press
— A 2-year-old boy visiting the Pittsburgh zoo was killed Sunday when his mother put him on top of a railing to see a pack of...
By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
METTER, Ga. — Early on a Saturday morning, four-term Rep. John Barrow, one of a dwindling number of moderate Democrats in Congress,...
By Richard Wronski
The last time a streetcar rattled along the rails in Milwaukee, in 1958, the Braves played at County Stadium and Pabst, Schlitz and Miller...
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times
Sandy, the aurora is rising behind us; the pier lights our carnival life forever.
By Paul West, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Against the backdrop of a sharply polarized nation, the long and mean-spirited 2012 presidential contest is barreling...
By Brian Bennett and Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
VALLEY STREAM, N.Y.— When Harry Perez looks at the red plastic canister on his back porch, he sees more than five gallons of unleaded....
By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mary Wright has been a devout Catholic and a Democrat her whole life, both erecting Obama signs in her yard and...
By Peter Hall, Morning Call
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The charges filed last week accusing three former Penn State administrators of engaging in a "conspiracy of silence"...
By Mark Z. Barabak and Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio — Gabrielle Smith is that rarest of rarities, coveted by both sides in the presidential campaign: an undecided...
By Seema Mehta and Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times
DUBUQUE, Iowa — Soaring music filled the air and a gleaming white plane with "Believe in America" painted along its length — and...
From the Associated Press
PHOENIX — A new report on a shooting that left a U.S. Border Patrol agent dead says he and two other agents responding to an alarm...
By Christi Parsons and Maeve Reston
As a Wisconsin crowd chanted "Four more days," former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney offered the "closing argument" of his presidential...
By Shashank Bengali, Joseph Serna and Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK — Temperatures plummeted and tension soared in the Northeast as gasoline supplies continued to dwindle despite furious...
By Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times
TOLEDO, Ohio — The demand for Jeep Wranglers outstrips supply these days, so the assembly line keeps cranking straight through the...