A South Dakota Senate Committee will decide what action to take against a popular Democratic state senator accused of sexually groping a high school page during last legislative session. The nine-member committee has spent the last three days hearing the sordid details of what happened when Senator Dan Sutton and the teenage page shared a

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An illegal immigrant is suing a radio station because it abided by U.S. federal law in requiring her to provide a valid Social Security or tax identification number before giving her a prize she won in a contest. When the Mexican woman, living illegally in Chicago for 15 years, could not provide the proper documents,

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Rhode Island’s political establishment has been hit by a cloud of fraud and corruption that has exposed an ongoing influence-peddling ring starring public figures and the well-to-do executives that have for years bribed them. The widespread ring has kept the state’s ethics commission quite busy and the federal courts occupied with trials, hearings and arraignments

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Commissioners at one of the nation’s busiest airports have finally scheduled a public meeting to consider punishing Muslim cab drivers who refuse passengers carrying liquor or guide dogs because Islamic law forbids it. Although the state agency that licenses them prohibits discrimination and allows fare refusal only for safety reasons, Muslim taxi drivers at Minnesota’s

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Taxpayers nationwide are probably thrilled that they will not finance Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, but it seems that perhaps the New York senator passed on public funding without first considering the financial impact of Barack Obama. The increasingly popular senator from Illinois is Hollywood’s new darling, a role once played by the former first lady

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Two election workers in Ohio’s most populous county have been convicted of fraud for illegally rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election in order to avoid a more labor-intensive thorough review of the cast ballots. Ohio gave President George W. Bush the electoral votes he needed to defeat John Kerry and a statewide recount

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Comparing civilian groups that help guard the U.S.-Mexico border to the Ku Klux Klan, an Arizona lawmaker has introduced a bill that would charge them with domestic terrorism and send them to jail. The proposed legislation would revise Arizona statutes on organized crime and fraud to include individuals and groups, such as the Minutemen Project,

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Hundreds of illegal immigrants who had been previously deported for criminal convictions were arrested in a long overdue sweep that spanned across five Southern California cities this week. In all, 750 illegal immigrants from 14 different countries were arrested by federal authorities and most, either have criminal records or remained in the United States undetected

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Already fined for violating federal election rules during her senate campaign, Hillary Clinton has devised a plan that allows her to disregard strict Federal Election Commission (FEC) spending limits during her presidential run. The former First Lady, a fundraising machine, is the first major candidate to forgo public funding in both the primary and general

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation, repeatedly under fire for negligence, is again in trouble for refusing to investigate Republican Florida Congressman Mark Foley’s inappropriate sexual escapades with teenage House pages over the years. The FBI should have acted to protect the young male pages that the disgraced former Congressmen hit on, but instead declined to

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