Republicans avoided disaster on Tuesday night by winning a special election in a solidly red Tennessee congressional district.

Republicans held onto a reliably conservative U.S. House district in Tennessee 's special election, but only after a late burst of national spending and high-profile campaigning helped them secure a m...

Republican Matt Van Epps, a former commissioner of the Tennessee Department of General Services, is favored over Democratic state Representative Aftyn Behn to fill the seat vacated by former Represent...