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Our Conservative Campaign Committee team has been traveling state-to-state, boots-on-the-ground campaigning for Ted Cruz in caucuses and primaries. After campaigning for Cruz in Fayetteville, North Carolina, we joined a rally led by Heidi Cruz. In her speech Heidi shared how Ted fell in love with and memorized the U.S. Constitution as a teenager. Ted also memorized large portions of the Bible. Against all odds, experts and polls, Ted resoundingly won his bid for the U.S. senate. Heidi cited her husband’s courage. He went to Washington as a Texas Senator fully committed to staying loyal to the Constitution and the voters...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney thinks "Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud" and that he's "playing the American public for suckers," according to prepared remarks provided by Romney to CNN. Romney, the party’s nominee in 2012, will urge Americans "to make the right choices" and not support the GOP front runner during a speech he'll give today at 11:30 a.m. ET at the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics Forum.

Gay cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain took four awards including best picture today at the British Academy Film Awards, a result that may presage the Oscars in two weeks' time. But the movie's Australian star Heath Ledger, again missed out on the best-actor prize to by Philip Seymour Hoffman for his depiction of troubled writer Truman Capote in Capote. Brokeback Mountain beat a strong best-picture shortlist that included literary biopic Capote, LA story Crash, 1950s drama Good Night, and Good Luck and British favourite The Constant Gardener. The Constant Gardener, a spy thriller and love story that went into the ceremony...

Darke man dies in farm accident Trapped inside tractor submerged in manure pit By Derek Ali e-mail address: derek_ali@coxohio.com Dayton Daily News VERSAILLES, Darke County | A man apparently drowned Monday when his tractor slid into a manure lagoon at a dairy farm, the Darke County sheriff’s office said. Scott A. Winner, 36, of 12620 Willowdell Road, Versailles, was taken to Miami Valley Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Deputies, Osgood Fire and Rescue, and Fort Loramie Rescue units were called to the farm at 14171 Willowdell Road in northern Darke County about 10:10 a.m. on a report of a...