Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the Republican-turned-Democrat who played a key role in many Supreme Court nominations, has died. He was 82.His son Shanin Specter says his father died ...

Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray remembers the late Arlen Specter as a one-of-a-kind politician. "He certainly danced to the tune of his own drummer," Gray said of Specter, Pennsylvania's longest-serving U.S ...

Arlen Specter was lost. The April 28 Pennsylvania primary was coming up, and this was a day set aside to demonstrate how the two-term Republican senator was staying in touch with his state. The ...

Pennsylvania’s two Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate dueled over character issues, crime, the war on terror and their devotion to Democratic principles today in ...

With the $789 billion economic stimulus package he helped broker set for a vote in the U.S. House and Senate, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., phoned home Thursday to unhappy members of the Pennsylvania ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., says he will ask Supreme Court justice nominee John Roberts dignified, appropriate and probing questions about such topics as the role of ...

WASHINGTON — Arlen Specter, who in 30 years representing Pennsylvania in the Senate offended Republicans and Democrats in almost equal measure with maverick votes and a frank cockiness that finally ...

PHILADELPHIA — In the void left by Sen. Arlen Specter's concession speech and departure from his own campaign party Tuesday night, the second-guessing began. As dispirited campaign staff members and ...

ANDREA MITCHELL, MSNBC ANCHOR: And hours from now, until the polls close here in Pennsylvania, that's when we learn whether long-time senator, veteran Arlen Specter will get a chance to run for ...

PHILADELPHIA — President Obama, making an unusual foray into a Democratic primary election battle, told a paying crowd of supporters of Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) on Tuesday that the senator would ...

In his 28 years in the Senate, Arlen Specter has been accused of many things. Some of his Republican colleagues grouse in private that he is sanctimonious and unreliable. A Pennsylvania moderate in a ...

Spygate turns 15 next year. Every so often, it continues to create a nugget of news. Here’s the news from a new item from Don Van Natta, Jr. and Seth Wickersham of ESPN.com regarding the controversy ...