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A delegate to the Republican National Convention says he was robbed of more than $120,000 after he took a woman to his Minneapolis hotel room. The Denver man told police he met the woman in a bar, then took her to his hotel room at Hotel Ivy. Police say that once there, the woman made the man drinks and told him to get undressed. The 29-year-old delegate told police that was the last thing he remembered.

As plans were being made to produce the 2004 Republican National Convention, conservatives from across the country were abuzz with dismay and frustration. "What kind of prime time line-up is this?" one conservative asked in an e-mail message. "Why aren't 'our' kind of Republicans being given time at the podium?" another questioned. "What are Karl Rove and the Republican Party trying to do?" a third one queried. Comment after comment streamed in during the build-up to the convention. The number of messages citing the need to reach out to the conservative base significantly dwarfed the number of messages from those...

City girl wows state Democrats STATE COLLEGE — Democratic State Committee members gathered Saturday at Penn State University to flesh out the state’s delegation to the party’s national convention in Boston. But the surprise main attraction was a speech by Cara Rosenthal, a 13-year-old girl from Williamsport who charmed the more than 250 adults with a combination of poise, spunk and humor as she proclaimed her allegiance to the party, criticized the Bush administration’s record on education and spoke out for women’s rights. ‘‘There may have been founding fathers, but there were also founding mothers,’’ Cara said in one of...