Florida candidate for state representative Joe Saunders is the latest victim of a ballot confusion scheme that appears to be increasingly popular, where a candidate with the same or similar name to a major party's candidate joins the race.In this case, Saunders' name double is his aunt, Maureen Sau...

The flu has come early to the Pacific Northwest this year. In King County, six people — all of them adults — have already died in this wave of the flu, and that number will rise as more deaths get investigated and counted.