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Three Republicans seeking the party's top Ways and Means Committee spot next year raised $4.1 million from lobbyists and their firms' PACs.

They aren’t saying it publicly, but behind the scenes, congressional Republican officials and business leaders are bracing for the nightmare scenario of a debt ceiling crisis potentially worse than the one in 2011 if the GOP retakes the House this year. That’s according to an Axios piece that pays special…

New appointments at Rowen Homes, H&H Land Estates and Alncom feature in this week's jobs round-up

With a deadline looming in less than two weeks for President Biden to decide what to do about student debt, it shouldn't be surprising that conservatives have been agitating with increasing intensity against relief for the borrowers.

Multiple state agencies told Sheriff Randy ‘Country’ Seal that he had no right to collect taxes from a rancher in his parish. He sued anyway.

Eight months after falling ill with COVID-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn’t remember what her husband had told her a few hours before. She would forget to remove laundry from the dryer at the end of the cycle. She would turn on the tap at a sink and walk away.

A 52-year-old man is arrested and charged with the murder of a girl after allegedly hitting her with his car.

Experts are finding that targeted therapy can benefit long COVID patients with memory and language problems

WASHINGTON — Rep. Vern Buchanan led second-quarter fundraising among GOP hopefuls for the party’s top spot on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, raking in more than $860,000 in contributions.