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By Peter Passi ppassi@duluthnews.com As he kicked off a news conference to announce his entrance into the District 7B race Tuesday, Erik Simonson shared a few thoughts on the beleaguered...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Vice President Joe Biden pounced on Republicans, with his main targets Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, during an early afternoon downtown Minneapolis rally. “Clearly, Republican obstructionism has slowed...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Congressman Todd Akin was keeping a low profile Monday, a day after he said women's bodies are able to prevent pregnancies in "a legitimate rape"...

Widely suspected of believing in nothing, Mitt Romney’s choice of a True Believer as his running mate plays well as public theater. As a TV performer, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan...

In the eyes of the Obama administration, most Democratic lawmakers and left-leaning editorial pages across the country, voter fraud is a problem that doesn’t exist. Allegations of fraud, they say,...

By Peter Passi, Forum Communications DULUTH — Rep. Chip Cravaack and his DFL challenger, Rick Nolan, chose very different venues Wednesday for public appearances in Duluth after Tuesday’s primary election...

BEMIDJI – Rita Albrecht believes the city deserves a mayor who is engaged and educated on the history of the community. Albrecht, currently the Ward 4 city councilor, will challenge...

Pioneer staff report BEMIDJI – Results from Tuesday’s primary election now pair candidates for voters when they go to the polls for Nov. 6 general election. The following is a...

I found the letter from Marjorie Anderson (Aug. 8) to be appalling. Everyone has a right to his or her opinion but no one (not even you, Marjorie) has the...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — It seems symbolic that Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan drove the famous Oscar Meyer Weinermobile when he was a teen. Unlike people who gleefully show their...

ST. PAUL — Almost all votes from Tuesday’s primary election have been counted. The unofficial returns below show the returns, with all but one of Minnesota’s 4,102 precincts reporting. In...

MARTIGA LOHN, Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Conservatives picked off two suburban GOP state lawmakers they portrayed as too moderate in Minnesota's primary, setting up stark differences between Republicans and...

U.S. Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar will advance to the general election, along with Republican challenger Kurt Bills and Stephen Williams from the Independence Party. One candidate from each party advances...

Late Tuesday night in the race for chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, incumbent Lorie Skjerven Gildea had 49.76 percent of votes. Dan Griffith had 29.32 percent and Jill...