By TOM TROY BLADE POLITICS WRITER Toledo City Council President Joe McNamara announced Friday he will form a committee to explore a campaign for the Ohio 11th District Senate seat being vacated by Teresa Fedor, who's term-limited. Mr. McNamara said he has informed his council colleagues that he won't seek re-election as council president in January. The 32-year-old Democrat said he would decide ...

Romanians go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president for a five-year term, amid a serious recession and an ongoing political crisis prompted by the fall of the government in mid-October.

BUCHAREST, Romania, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Millions of Romanians will go to the polls Sunday in the first round of the country's presidential election amid political turmoil, authorities say.

Courtesy of PROBE PROFILES HEIR to a political dynasty that introduced him to politics, Olongapo City Councilor John Carlos “JC” de los Reyes is defying tradition. He will be 40 years old in February and is dead-set in running for president in 2010 against political giants that will most likely include his uncle, Sen. Richard Gordon. The son of Gordon’s sister Barbara, De los Reyes has neither ...

Palestinian officials say a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month.

Managua (Nicaragua), Nov 22 (DPA) Thousands of protestors in the Central American country of Nicaragua took to the streets of Managua against President Daniel Ortega, who opposition parties and citizens' groups accuse of attempting to set up a dictatorship.

SAN ANGELO — San Angelo steel fabricating giant Hirschfeld Industries, Inc., has made a bid to go public.Hirschfeld last week made the initial filings to issue shares for trading on the New York Stock Exchange . If the filing is approved, the company will trade as HSFD.Hirschfeld has a fabrication plant in Abilene located at 771 Virgil St., west of South Judge Ely Boulevard and south of Business ...

Success in any long-running campaign breeds complacency; first euphoria, then relief, later forgetfulness. Whether the campaign for universal suffrage or the crusade to curb childhood disease through immunizations, success leads to historical amnesia.

Incoming EU president Herman Van Rompuy kept a low profile as the 27-nation bloc's leaders faced flak for picking him and a little-known British peer to lead a revamped Europe on the world stage.

Glenn Beck's talking up some scary plan for 2010 lately. It's scary because Glenn Beck is talking. And today, Glenn Beck unveiled his 100-year plot to fundamentally change America—and...