Cash could be deciding factor as Tribune/WGN-TV survey finds weak spots for both candidates Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk are wounded rivals running neck and neck for the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama, a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows.

YORK, S.C. (AP) - U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene is taking his longshot campaign to northern South Carolina on Monday. Greene plans to spend time on a morning talk show on Charlotte, N.C., radio station WBT, then the Democrat will end the day with an appearance at a restaurant in York.

It will be a three-way race for the late Robert C. Byrd’s U.S. Senate seat in November as voters decided to pit Democrat Gov. Joe Manchin against Republican John Raese and Mountain Party’s Jesse Johnson.

Sixteen U.S. senators, including the Agriculture Committee's top Democrat and Republican, sent the U.S. Department of Agriculture a letter on July 2 scolding it for proposing $6 billion in cuts to crop insurance. This letter comes the same week that Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) voiced support for increasing and improving crop insurance coverage at the Committee's ...

In one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country, five-term Republican Congressman Mark Kirk and Democratic State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias are battling for the Illinois U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Roland Burris. Burris was appointed to finish President Obama's senate term and opted not to run for re-election.