Testifying before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Tuesday, United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger didn't mince words about the auto industry's need for Congress to approve a ...

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich wants new authority to help him deal with the state's crumbling budget.

Gov. Haley Barbour, who has blocked efforts to increase tobacco taxes over the past few years, now proposes paying for part of the Mississippi budget next year with a two-tiered increase in the cigarette tax - ...

Nebraska may have a tougher issue to address than its safe haven law. This issue is the gap in "the system," if you ask Brad Ashford, chairman of the Nebraska Legislature's Judiciary Committee.

A study is under way at Rush University Medical Center using a small, soft-patch device made of a Gore-tex-type material - often used to make durable outerwear - to close a common hole found in the heart called ...

LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska lawmakers appeared Tuesday to be leaning toward tightening the state's safe-haven law by setting an age limit of either one month or one year for children who may be legally abandoned ...