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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Wednesday took responsibility for his party's loses on Election Night and said he is willing to work with congressional Democrats on the major issues during the last two years of his presidency."I'm obviously disappointed with the outcome of the election and, as the head of the Republican Party, I share a large part of the responsibility," Bush said during a East Room news conference at the White House."I told my party's leaders that it is now our duty to put the elections behind us and work together with the Democrats and independents on the...

Ex-trooper sentenced for lying to FBI agent 3 years’ probation, fine ordered in Quitman case A federal judge on Thursday imposed a $1,000 fine and probation for a former Arkansas state trooper who made national news years ago with reports that he had once arranged sexual trysts for former President Clinton while he was governor. Larry Patterson was fined and sentenced to three years’ probation, beginning with three months of home detention, for his negotiated guilty plea last August to one count of making a false statement to a federal agent. Now 60, Patterson admitted lying in an interview...