Though Ohio's two-term Senator Republican Mike DeWine has insisted in his campaign that he is an independent force, his ties to President Bush may cost him his re-election to the Senate. Recent polls show Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown widening his…

U.S. employers added 96,000 jobs to their payrolls in September, the Labor Department reported Friday, a lower-than-expected result that will likely intensify the second presidential debate later in the day over the economy's direction.