Vagnozzi expects that non-budget bills including more than a dozen that he has introduced in the House will be taken up once the state s financial concerns are handled. Democrats who favor tax increases and Republicans who oppose them are sharply divided on what role new revenues will play in the process, grinding negotiations to a halt at least a couple of times in the past few weeks. But that number was higher than normal, partly because it was the second year of a two-year legislative...

The Best Way to Protest High Drug Costs: Buy Canadian and Cut Your Bill in Half, Says CanadaWayDrugs.com With prescription drug prices spiraling out of control, a new Medicare plan that primarily benefits the drug industry and political leaders unwilling to effect change, patients are left holding the bag and the bill. The Best Way to Protest High Drug Costs: Buy Canadian and Cut Your Bill in Half, Says CanadaWayDrugs.com With prescription drug prices spiraling out of control, a new...

Smucker co. said its earnings rose after rival ConAgra Foods recalled peanut butter brands because of a salmonella outbreak. The company, the world's second-largest maker of chips for mobile phones, had asked the International Trade Commission to delay enforcement of the ban until a federal appeals court can review the case. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to freeze imposition of the ban until the appeal can be heard on the underlying patent case. Qualcomm inc.'s request to freeze...

Adjust font size: (CNN) -- When you walk off the 18th green at the Ballyneal Golf and Hunt Club, the vistas of rambling sand dunes, yucca plants and tumbleweed pressed against a vivid, blue northeastern Colorado sky, recall lyrics from a recently released jazz tune. Adjust font size: (CNN) -- When you walk off the 18th green at the Ballyneal Golf and Hunt Club, the vistas of rambling sand dunes, yucca plants and tumbleweed pressed against a vivid, blue northeastern Colorado sky, recall...

Article continues The body of an elderly woman was recovered yesterday from the swollen river Severn at Ironbridge, Shropshire, raising the provisional death toll of the floods to seven. Police meanwhile cracked down on isolated cases of theft from evacuated homes, and a brief attempt by teenagers to sell stolen sandbags to anxious householders. The new national flood support centre in Worcester was kept busy but avoided the expected major emergency as equipment already in place brought...