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WASHINGTON--Sen. Lisa Murkowski didn't sign on to a prescription drug importation bill until a week after the U.S. Senate's majority leader said the subject wasn't on his agenda for the rest of the year.

WASHINGTON--For U.S. Senate candidate Tony Knowles, the question of whether to legalize the importation of prescription drugs from Canada isn't complicated.

WASHINGTON--A Catholic organization has named Sen. Lisa Murkowski to its "deadly dozen" list for her support of abortion rights and says she shouldn't be allowed to take Holy Communion.

WASHINGTON--The Alaska Right to Life Committee's endorsement of Mike Miller's bid for the U.S. Senate last week highlighted for Alaska voters the spectrum of views on abortion held by major candidates for the seat, a spectrum that could generate complex undercurrents in the coming elections.

ANCHORAGE--Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's vacillating record on abortion rights is raising questions among critics on both sides of the issue.

JUNEAU--Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tony Knowles said he will fight for dramatic changes in the federal No Child Left Behind Act to return more local control to schools.

FAIRBANKS--As the campaign season winds down, leading candidates for the U.S. Senate seat are touting their support of Alaskans? gun rights, and both have a cheering section to reaffirm that message.

WASHINGTON--As a decade-old ban on firearms deemed to be assault weapons nears expiration, Alaska's three members in Congress count themselves among those happy to see it go.

WASHINGTON--Gun Owners of America, a 300,000-member national group, has endorsed Mike Miller for the U.S. Senate.

• NRA endorses Murkowski  3-28-04

WASHINGTON--Sen. Lisa Murkowski and former Gov. Tony Knowles agree on one thing about Iraq. Given the information presented by the Bush administration in the fall of 2002, war was justified.

WASHINGTON--The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has approved the boost in veterans' health care funding that Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, requested earlier this year.

WASHINGTON--Former Gov. Tony Knowles says Sen. Lisa Murkowski has been voting against increased funding and fair rules for veterans health care, but the senator says her challenger has her record exactly backward.

JUNEAU--Democrat Tony Knowles fired a shot at U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's record on veterans issues just as the two entered a long Memorial Day weekend of campaigning.

WASHINGTON--Adopting a tactic already used by some of the third-party groups advertising in the U.S. Senate race, Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday began airing a radio ad criticizing former Gov. Tony Knowles for signing off on the Pew Oceans Commission recommendations last year.

WASHINGTON--When new overtime rules went into effect last week, Tony Knowles said they could cost thousands of Alaska workers their extra pay and that U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski should take the blame.

WASHINGTON--Alaska's senators both say they support a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, but it's uncertain whether the Republicans will get to cast a vote on the question.

WASHINGTON--Former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles says Western Alaska villages ought to be given rights to a greater share of the commercial fish in the Bering Sea, but Sen. Lisa Murkowski believes the idea needs some detailed analysis by fish managers first. The two U.S. Senate candidates in recent weeks both have suggested changes to the federal "community development quota" program, which pumps tens of millions of dollars into coastal villages annually by giving them ownership of up to 10 percent of the fish.

ANCHORAGE--U.S. Rep. Steve King still bristles recalling the heckler who interrupted his stump speech at the Iowa State Fair, thousands of miles from his touchy subject--drilling for oil in the Alaska wilderness.

WASHINGTON--Tony Knowles and two Democratic congressmen said Thursday they would be persuasive, persistent voices for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge if they are elected to the U.S. Senate.