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WASHINGTON — You can take U.S. Sen. Bob Corker's name off the list of potential vice presidential candidates.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's decision to extend administrative relief to an estimated 800,000 young illegal immigrants has won favor with Latino voters in key battleground states, according to a new poll.

It’s no secret that incumbents have advantages over challengers in congressional elections, including better name recognition, established fundraising contacts and easier access to government resources.

NASHVILLE — U.S. Sen. Bob Corker's re-election campaign plans to purchase $2.5 million in television advertising, a substantial decline from about $11 million spent on TV ads during his 2006 campaign.

In electing their new state representative this summer, Republican voters in parts of Jefferson and Sevier counties will choose either an engineer, a lawyer or a retired businessman who wants to take tax money from the state and give it ...

NASHVILLE — Something of an incumbent-challenger role reversal seems afoot this summer in the parts of Loudon and Roane counties where Republican voters will decide whether they want Julia Hurley or Kent Calfee to serve them in the state House ...

Knoxville City Councilman Daniel Brown: 6th District constituents meeting, 10:30 a.m. today, Beck Cultural Exchange Center, 1927 Dandridge Ave.

Shelley Breeding has asked the Tennessee Supreme Court to hear the residency issue that is keeping her off a Democrat primary ballot for the new 89th House District seat.

KNOXVILLE — Shelley Breeding cannot be a Knox County candidate for the General Assembly, a three-judge panel of the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled this morning.

A Tennessee Court of Appeals panel is expected to issue a ruling today, possibly as early as 9 a.m., on the residency issue of political hopeful Shelley Breeding.

KNOXVILLE — A Tennessee Court of Appeals panel is now contemplating the residency issue of political hopeful Shelley Breeding and will try to have a decision by 9 a.m. Thursday.

NASHVILLE -- A longtime practice in the Tennessee legislature of lawmakers voting for colleagues who are momentarily away from their desks is coming under new scrutiny after some were discovered not to be even at the statehouse.

Sevier County Republican Party: Rally, local, county and state candidates, 11 a.m. today, Sevier County Fairgrounds. Keynote speaker will be Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters. For more information, call 865-238-0400 or visit www.seviercountyrepublican.com.

NASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Haslam is weighing both an increase in funding for the state’s public pre-kindergarten program and creating a school voucher system in Tennessee, though the Republican says he doesn’t consider the two proposals linked.

In 2008, rapper Ludacris released a pro-Barack Obama song describing Hillary Clinton as "irrelevant" and saying John McCain doesn't belong in "any chair unless he's paralyzed."