WASHINGTON (AP) – The House ethics committee Thursday questioned the one-time chief of staff to Rep. Mark Foley, who challenged Speaker Dennis Hastert’s account of his office’s first notification of Mr. Foley’s conduct toward male pages. Kirk ...

A trio of Colorado judges in a hearing Wednesday brushed aside the most sweeping arguments made by attorneys for former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in her appeal of her criminal convictions — but the panel expressed serious concerns about a procedural error in one of her felony charges and the overall fairness of her