Former Ga. Rep.
Barr picked as Libertarian candidate
The Libertarian
Party on Sunday picked former
Republican Rep. Bob Barr to be its
presidential candidate after six
rounds of balloting.
Barr beat research
scientist Mary Ruwart, who also sought
the party's presidential nomination
unsuccessfully in 1983, on the final
ballot. The vote was 324-276.
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Clinton Wins
Kentucky; Obama Takes Oregon
The
Democratic presidential rivals split
Tuesday's primary races. Sen. Hillary
Clinton won big in Kentucky, but Sen.
Barack Obama's victory in Oregon pushed
him closer to the nomination.
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Clinton crushes
Obama in West Virginia
Even with her
presidential hopes fading, Senator
Hillary Clinton won a landslide
victory in the West Virginia
Democratic primary yesterday,
renewing doubts about Senator Barack
Obama's prospects in states with
large concentrations of white,
working-class voters.
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Wildfires force
evacuations in central Florida
Wildfires fuelled
by dry, windy weather have destroyed
about 50 homes on Florida's central
Atlantic coast and driven hundreds of
residents away as the governor declared
a state of emergency.
Fires in Palm Bay
in Brevard County claimed about 50 homes
and 3,500 acres. Pupils at two schools
were dismissed early as a precaution.
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Obama takes North
Carolina, Clinton wins Indiana
Barack Obama
took a big stride towards the
Democratic presidential nomination
Tuesday with a thumping victory over
Hillary Clinton in North Carolina,
while she eked out a wafer-thin win
in Indiana.
Well after
midnight, hours after they declared the
North Carolina result, US networks said
the former first lady had taken Indiana
by a few thousand votes for a victory
margin of 51 percent to 49 percent.
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Clinton, Obama
duke it out for today's primary; both vow to
continue nomination quest
Democrats
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack
Obama waged a last-ditch push for
votes in Indiana and North Carolina
on Monday even as both vowed to keep
campaigning through the month
regardless of today's primary
results.
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