All Blog Posts from Primary Source

Earlier today, the Virginia State Board of Elections received complaints from voters in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia questioning automated calls telling registered voters their polling location had changed...when it hadn't. Some voters who received the pre-recorded call notified election officials.

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CBS News has learned that the Republican National Committee’s $150,000 shopping spree for Alaska Governor Sarah Palin included clothes to outfit Palin’s entire family including her soon to be son-in-law Levi Johnston.

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Less than a week after John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his running mate, Palin's hometown of Wasilla, Alaska was crawling with reporters from all over the world.

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Last fall after questions regarding former President Bill Clinton’s business dealings came to light, CBS News sought to answer the question – who visits the Clinton’s Chappaqua home?

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In what could be one of the most clever responses to a Senate tax inquiry to date, John Copeland, Kenneth Copeland’s son and CEO of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, walked into the Dallas IRS office yesterday and offered the ministry’s cooperation should the agency pursue a church tax inquiry. The CBS Dallas station broke the story. The results of any IRS examination are not available to the public.

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Oral Roberts University eliminated its entire Board of Regents last night declaring a new era of transparent governance and accountability for the financially troubled institution. The new Board of Trustees made up of educators and alumni is in sharp contrast to the old board which was dominated by high profile televangelists including Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar, Jerry Savelle, Jesse Duplantis and Kenneth Copeland. Copeland’s son-in-law George Pearsons served as the former head of the Business Board of Regents. Within the last few weeks, Hinn, Duplantis and Dollar left the board citing demands of their ministries.

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At least one top televangelist is refusing to cooperate with an investigation by the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Charles Grassley.

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This morning in Chicago eight state attorneys general announced they were filing a motion against R.J. Reynolds for violating the 1998 tobacco settlement by illegally marketing cigarettes to youth. The ad in question appeared in the Nov. 15 issue of Rolling Stone magazine.

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U.S. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Chairman Bob Filner, D-Calif., told CBS News today that his committee would hold a hearing in early December, tentatively scheduled for Dec. 13, to look into the issue of veteran suicides, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the mental health needs of veterans.

Earlier this week the CBS News Investigative Unit revealed new data that shows more than 120 Americans who served in the military committed suicide each week in 2005.

Filner said his committee was unable to get information about veteran suicides: "We have been asking for this material for a few years now and haven’t gotten anything, so we are going to make that a key part of the hearing.”

Filner expressed frustration with Department of Veterans Affairs officials who promised him they would get him suicide numbers, but never did.

Thursday night's CBS News exclusive on an alleged fuel fraud scheme at Bagram air base in Afghanistan was based on a tip and this complaint. According to court documents, authorities arrested two former Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) employees in early October. The two men are Wallace A. Ward and James N. Sellman both from Virginia. The charges paint them as small players in a larger scheme that cost the U.S. government millions of dollars.

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