IT could be weeks before the official winners of Senate seats following the August 21 federal election are known, the Australian Electoral Commission says.

DAYTON — Eric W. Deaton, a Constitution Party candidate for U.S. Senate, was indicted Tuesday, Aug. 31, for unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, according to Greg Flannagan, spokesman for Montgomery County Prosecutor Mathias H. Heck Jr.Deaton, 42, of New Lebanon is to be arraigned Sept. 14 in county common pleas court on the third-degree felony count. The indictment alleges that between March ...

The state Senate is wading into the debate over whether the Ohio State-Michigan game should continue to be the last game of the regular season.

The California Senate has rejected a bill that would have made it illegal to carry unloaded guns in public, but lawmakers will give the vote one more try.

The Senate Fiscal Affairs Committee is recommending to the full Senate not to increase lawmakers' annual discretionary funding in the Fiscal Year 2011 budget.