Special elections Tuesday in two Metro Detroit districts will decide control of the Michigan House after more than five months of a 54-54 split among Republicans and Democrats in the lower chamber. The two Democratic candidates — Mai Xiong in the Warren area's 13th House District and Peter Herzberg in the Westland area's 25th House District — are expected to clinch their respective races in the Democratic-leaning areas of Macomb and Wayne counties. But Republican candidates Ronald Singer in the 13th and Josh Powell in the 25th say they won't...

Republican Sean Knox appeared to have won the special election Tuesday to replace Richard Smith in Georgia’s House representing the District 139 by a narrow margin of 12 votes. With 10 of the 10 precincts tallied, Knox recorded 1,045 votes. His closest competitor and fellow Republican, Carmen Rice, the first female Muscogee County GOP chair, garnered 1,033 votes, according to tallies by the Georgia Secretary of State’s office late Tuesday night. Robert Mallard, an independent, and Donald Moeller, also a Republican, trailed the field with 237 and 140 votes, respectively....