COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — President Barack Obama enters the final hours of the 2012 campaign with an edge in the hunt for the 270 electoral votes needed to win and more ways to reach that magic number. Yet the race is remarkably close in at least six states that could go either way, giving Republican […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is making an unannounced stop in Cleveland. Biden voted Tuesday morning in his home state of Delaware and then boarded a plane for Chicago, where he's joining President Barack Obama to await the election returns. An hour after takeoff, the small group of reporters traveling with the vice […]

If you have reports of trickery, call 1-866-MY-VOTE-1. — – In Toledo, Ohio, that’s Lucas County, Ohio, the poll location at MLK Boulevard did not open on time.  Apparently a security guard was not there to open it up.  -In Hennepin County, Virginia a machine changed votes from Obama to Romney and in Hennepin CH […]

Just when we thought Evelyn had a break through moment and was moving on with her life, some more stuff comes up. Chad Johnson’s alleged mistress, Tiffany Jack, contacted the reality star on Twitter. An Evelyn fan posted a message to Tiffany saying, “Wow! Do u care about his marriage to @EvelynLozada.” Before Tiffany could […]

Before joining her husband in Iowa for his last campaign stop on Monday, First Lady Michelle Obama made an appeal to voters in the swing state of Florida. “We are going to get this done,” she told the crowd in Orlando Park Monday night, reminding supporters on the eve of the election that it’s “all […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Leaving his re-election prospects in the hands of voters, President Barack Obama congratulated rival Mitt Romney "on a spirited campaign" and declared he's "confident we've got the votes to win." After closing down his campaign late Monday with a nostalgia-filled rally in Iowa, Obama went back to exhorting his supporters during a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Claire McCaskill has won re-election in Missouri, holding off Rep. Todd Akin who came under fire for saying women had ways of preventing pregnancies in the case of "legitimate rape." McCaskill's victory denies Republicans a seat they'd hoped to pick up before Akin's comments. Democrats have picked up two Senate seats […]

POINT PLEASANT, N.J. (AP) — Election Day turnout was heavy Tuesday in several storm-ravaged areas in New York and New Jersey, a welcome change from crisis to catharsis for many who saw exercising their civic duty as a sign of normalcy amid lingering devastation. Lines were long in Point Pleasant, N.J., where residents from the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Challenges at the polls, voter confusion and potential problems with provisional ballots in many key states are among the top Election Day concerns for voting rights groups and the presidential campaigns themselves. Voting-rights advocates point with particular concern to the tea party-linked True the Vote organization, which has pledged to dispatch thousands […]

Got immunization questions for the doctor? Text them to “646464” (OHOHOH). — While the overwhelming majority of parents in the U.S. get their children vaccinated according to schedule, about 1 percent of children do not receive any vaccines, leaving them at the risk of contracting serious, even deadly, diseases. According to the federal Centers for […]

Is it really true? TLC is going back into the studio? It’s like a return of the 90s phenomenon. T-Boz and Chilli made it official, and confirmed that they’ve got something brewing. “We’re going to still sound like TLC, evolving to whatever level we need to be at this time,” said T-Boz, who also announced […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Northeast coastal residents got some good news Wednesday. Weather experts say that a new storm that threatens to complicate Hurricane Sandy cleanup efforts on Wednesday now looks like it will be weaker than expected. The storm on Tuesday was moving from Florida toward the Atlantic. As it moves up the coast […]