September 17, 2008 -
Today, Mississippi's state Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about whether state election officials acted improperly by putting the hotly-contested race to replace Sen. Trent Lott (R) at the bottom of the ballot.
September 17, 2008 -
The storms that have impacted an
September 17, 2008 -
Haitian grassroots activists in Florida are denouncing a new Florida election rule that will force residents to present identification that matches a state or federal database in order to register to vote.
September 16, 2008 -
The Christian Science Monitor reports that the humanitarian relief effort in the Texas Gulf Coast has kicked into gear, but there have been some noted problems:
September 16, 2008 -
A series of mishaps that occurred during a recent refueling outage at Duke Energy's Oconee nuclear plant near Greenville, S.C. exposed workers to dangerous levels of radiation, the Union of Concerned Scientists reports.
September 16, 2008 -
As the result of coverage by Facing South and a few other media outlets about the decision to not evacuate over 1,000 inmates and staff of the Galveston County jail for Hurricane Ike