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KNOXVILLE - Federal court jurors reported today they have reached a verdict on three of four charges against former University of Tennessee student David C. Kernell, accused of illegally accessing the private e-mail account of 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. But they also reported they are deadlocked on the first count, a charge of identity theft. Without asking what their verdict is on the other counts, U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Phillips sent them back to the jury room to continue deliberating the first count. In their written communication to the judge this afternoon, the jurors said: "Some...

AUSTIN — Former Hidalgo County election judges filed a petition on Friday with the Texas secretary of state asking for poll inspectors to visit Weslaco precincts on Nov. 2, saying inexperienced judges could compromise the election. "I feel the integrity of this race might be at risk," said Marcos Hernandez, former election judge for voting Precinct 112 in central Weslaco, who filed the petition. Election inspectors from the secretary of state’s office were already planning to be in Hidalgo County and other Rio Grande Valley counties on Election Day because of previous petitions filed by other groups, said Bill Kenyon,...

Your voice: George Clooney It's recently been brought to my attention that my father, Nick Clooney, has been running for Congress from the 4th District of Kentucky. Although he told me, I didn't really believe him until I started reading all the stories about myself in the paper. It seems the best way to campaign against my father is to go after me. The head of the Kentucky 4th District GOP, Marcus Carey, is quoted in the Enquirer as saying that because of me, my father and I will "go down with my ship" - a reference to a film...