Tim Jones

Despite a history of heart problems, Larry Ippensen lifted shovel after shovel of sand Wednesday afternoon with scraped and sunburned hands in a desperate sandbagging effort to save his 160-acre...

J.R. Winters has vivid memories of dismantling the washers and dryers from his downtown coin laundry and lugging the motors up a flight of stairs, safely away from the 1993...

Near the water's edge on Jefferson Street, Louise Vaughan, a slight woman with strong hands, lugged cartons of bottled water near where volunteers were filling sandbags. As the Mississippi rose...

Republican Sen. John McCain ventured onto the home turf of his likely Democratic presidential opponent Monday, slamming Sen. Barack Obama for his claim that Iran is not as serious a...

Markita Barrett is a single mother and has all she can handle with two daughters, ages 10 and 1, and her pending college graduation. Still, she can't stop thinking about...

They don't make presidents like they used to, certainly not in Ohio, which during an incredible 60-year stretch was the New York Yankees of presidential politics, sending seven of its...

The drama of the most intensive presidential nominating campaign in memory will play out on the largest stage ever Tuesday when millions of Americans, from Connecticut to California with American...

The furious four-way Republican race for the primary affections of Florida roared up and down this long, heavily populated peninsula Tuesday and did not pause for a moment of silence...

Against a backdrop of gloomy economic news and a looming recession, Republican presidential candidates criss-crossed strategically important South Carolina on Thursday, each trying to convince voters that he has the...

Two historic presidential candidacies -- the most viable ever by an African-American and a woman -- became mired in more common political bickering Sunday as the campaigns of Sens. Barack...