TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly outlined a proposed annual budget Wednesday that includes a tax increase and two other major initiatives likely to be rejected by the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature. Kelly's $20.9 billion spending plan for the budget year that begins July 1 would...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear proposed an infusion of aid into Kentucky's coronavirus-battered economy on Thursday evening, announcing an ambitious budget plan that includes down-payments on his long-running goals of raising salaries for teachers and boosting public education funding. The...
LEXINGTON Ky. (AP) — An eastern Kentucky attorney who admitted to defrauding the government of more than $600 million in Social Security disability benefits is being sued by a former client in a case that seeks to overturn hundreds of small-claims lawsuit judgments. The client, James K. Gillman, said he...
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s health minister resigned Friday after his party left the country's ruling center-right coalition, a blow to Prime Minister Janez Jansa during the coronavirus pandemic. Tomaz Gantar said he was stepping down after his Democratic Party of Pensioners, or DESUS,...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Among the more than $110 billion in unemployment benefits California has paid this year to people who lost their jobs because of the coronavirus, $21,000 went to an address in Roseville under the name and Social Security number of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The Bank of America,...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore County government improperly paid at least 20 employees both salaries and pensions at the same time despite a county law that prohibits it in most cases, the county’s inspector general said in a report. The report found county employees were paid more than $1 million in...