Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Senator James Jeffords of Vermont announces that he is leaving the Republican party to become an Independent, in this file ...

Kay Jeffords, whose steeplechaser Lonesome Glory was a five-time champion, died July 8 in her New York City home. Jeffords, who had turned 80 two weeks ago, had suffered from Parkinson's disease. Bred ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Former Vermont U.S. Sen. James Jeffords, who in 2001 tipped control of the Senate when he quit the Republican Party to become an independent, died Monday. He was 80. Jeffords died in ...

New York police arrested 24-year-old Gillian Jeffords, a teacher’s aide, after they say she brought a loaded 9 mm Ruger pistol to the Jesse J. Kaplan School, which serves developmentally challenged ...

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Acts of true political courage are infrequent in Washington. Politicians are loathe to commit to taking stands that are against the grain or out of their comfort zone. Yet 16 years ago a Republican ...

Jeffords, who died Monday at age 80, served as a state officeholder and congressman before his election to the Senate in 1988. At the time, Vermont’s choice of a Republican was hardly news: The seat ...

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BURLINGTON, Vt. — James Merrill Jeffords, who was a Republican congressman and senator before breaking with his party in 2001, has died. He was 80. Jeffords, the last Republican to hold federal office ...

Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.), whose abrupt defection from the Republican Party in May 2001 handed control of the Senate to the Democrats for the next 19 months, announced yesterday that he would not ...