By Russell Lissau Daily Herald Staff Writer The Democrat seeking the 31st state Senate seat said he believes the state should financially support embryonic stem-cell research, a prospect his Republican rival opposes.

By Susan Kuczka, Chicago Tribune Mar. 23--Illinois Democrats wondered Wednesday whether Suzanne Simpson's victory in the Republican primary could boomerang in Democrat Michael Bond's favor in the November race for the Senate's 31st District seat in northern Lake County.

COLUMBIA - The architect for overhauling South Carolina's Medicaid program is an associate finance professor at a Cleveland State University think tank who says people want all the health insurance that someone can afford to buy for them.