EUGENE, Ore. - Meet records fell across all event groups, none bigger than Brad Walker’s American record in the pole vault, and Maria Mutola had a historic exit Sunday at the Nike Prefontaine Classic.The fourth event of USATF’s Visa Championship Series, the Nike Prefontaine Classic drew a meet-record 14,221 fans to Hayward Field, site of […]
HAYWARD — The Hayward City Council election was still too close to call Wednesday, but city voters appear to have narrowly elected the first Latino council member since 1991, while also putting into office the first council member of Asian descent in its history.The tight race for five open seats — four for four years, […]
Paul Woodward, Online CorrespondentLast Updated: June 03. 2008 7:00PM UAE / June 3. 2008 3:00PM GMT“Barack Obama is poised to claim the Democratic presidential nomination this week, but Hillary Clinton shows no signs of conceding. How their endgame plays out - in continued rivalry, as running mates or something in between - will go a […]
Was it smart to move California’s presidential primary up to February? Absolutely.If California’s presidential primary was today, the election would havebeen long over, since her big delegate win here kept Hillary in thegame for weeks longer. Some will lament the lower voter turnout. Butthat ignores that candidates for congressional and legislative officeswould have had a […]
The Karnataka Assembly election results have been declared. As widely expected, the BJP has been able to extend its lead and reached the simple majority mark. During the election campaign, former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda had said he would wait for the Congress and the BJP to approach him to help form the next […]
Many Republicans are running unopposed in these races.For Attorney General, there are no Republican candidates.John Kroger is a professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland. Before teaching law, he worked on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, senior policy analyst at the U.S. Treasury Department, and was a federal prosecutor. He also served on […]
But for the second straight year, the Magic qualified for the playoffs rather than the losers' lottery. That means Williams can stay home and watch the prime-time event. A preferred position, for sure, but one that presents a slight problem."We do have a condo in Secaucus," Williams said, tongue-in-cheek. "But we don't plan on going […]
MAN WHO SLUGGED SUGE KNIGHT SPEAKS: Also, is one-time mogul planning to retaliate? ‘Rollin’ With Dre’ author weighs in.*The man who claims to be behind Suge Knight’s knockout punch has emerged.According to TMZ.com, dude is a barbershop owner in Los Angeles who is friends with the man Knight was trying to defend in the now […]
Raleigh – Republican Rep. Walter Jones, who famously supported renaming french fries “freedom fries,” has survived a strong challenge in his GOP primary election.With 71 percent of precincts reporting unofficial returns Tuesday night, Jones had 60 percent of the vote in North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District. Challenger Joe McLaughlin had 40 percent of the vote […]
The West Virginia Secretary of State’s webpage is posting election returns for all candidates on the ballot, and all races. Thus, the Secretary of States’s webpage is superior in some ways to CNN. On the other hand, the Secretary of State’s webpage only posts results from counties that are complete, so it doesn’t […]