The Associated Press declared Ricketts the winner at 9:00 p.m. EST. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Democrat looking to unseat an incumbent Republican in a close Iowa congressional race, one of a ...

Love had painted Ricketts — one of the wealthiest members of the U.S. Senate — as privileged and out of-touch with most voters. But Ricketts easily prevailed in the heavily conservative state.

Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska won election Tuesday to the seat he was appointed to nearly two years ago. Ricketts, a former two-term Nebraska governor, defeated Democratic challenger ...