WASHINGTON (AP) âÄî At least 13 firms receiving billions of dollars in bailout money owe a total of more than $220 million in unpaid federal taxes, a key lawmaker said Thursday. Rep. John Lewis,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) âÄî The city police union has asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to review the legality of former 1970s radical Sara Jane Olson's release to the state of Minnesota for her parole....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) âÄî Five Midwestern states sporadically enforce open government laws, with workers not adequately trained to carry out the policies, according to a new report from Citizen Advocacy...

WASHINGTON (AP) âÄî The head of battered insurance giant AIG told Congress on Wednesday that "we've heard the American people loudly and clearly" in their rage over executive bonuses and appealed...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) âÄî Valero Energy will buy seven ethanol plants, including one in Minnesota, from VeraSun Energy for $477 million, the largest biofuel buyout in terms of production capacity....

WASHINGTON (AP) âÄî Consumer prices rose in February by the largest amount in seven months as gasoline prices surged again and clothing costs jumped the most in nearly two decades. Despite the...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) âÄî The Guardian Angels national crime-fighting group could put its beret-wearing patrols on the streets of Rochester by this summer. Local organizer Mike LaPlante says the...