By ERIK SCHELZIG
Associated Press

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- Next week's election can't come soon enough for Republican Scott DesJarlais, the freshman Republican congressman whose campaign has been rocked by revelations he dated patients and once urged one of them to seek an abortion.

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The congressman has been

The Tennessee Department of Health has announced a 12th death among patients sickened by tainted medicine linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis.
 
Health officials also reported Friday the total number of Tennessee cases has increased by three to 78.
 
The people became ill after receiving steroid shots in their

Arkansas finance officials say weak sales and income tax collections pushed the state's revenues in October below last year's figures and their predictions.
 
The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration said Friday that the state's net available revenues in October totaled $355.6 million. That's $9 million

By LARRY LAGE
AP Hockey Writer

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that the NHL has cancelled the 2013 Winter Classic