Constitution Day commemorates a signal achievement, one creating a government strong enough to maintain order but with powers ...

On this second day of Constitution Week, we look at James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, who was a delegate from ...

Beacon Journal readers write about Springfield, gun rights, national crime bills, redistricting and Constitution Day.

If a candidate were to win each of the thirty smallest states by exactly one vote and not receive a single vote anywhere else ...

The historical narrative is clear that our founding fathers did not want the United States to ever collapse into a theocracy.

More than 4 in 10 adults have at least one step relative, and about 16% of children live in a household with a step parent, ...

The bad guys are getting away with it. Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who won 67% of the popular vote in Venezuela’s presidential election on 28 July but was declared to have lost by just enough for ...

Going forward, it's all about the bikes. The Santa Barbara City Council on Tuesday night swerved away from reopening part of ...

Each state is granted 2 votes in the Electoral College for each State Senator plus votes equaling the total number of congressional districts in the state (e.g. the largest State of California has 54 ...

VDOT has updated its schedules for road construction and maintenance in the Staunton District and Culpeper District for the week of Sept. 23-27.

Everyone knows the two major players in American politics: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. At all elections ...

The House of Representatives recently failed to pass a continuing resolution that included the Safeguard American Voter ...