Foss News

The Common Council this week approved two resolutions to help curb blight in the city and improve the tax rolls.

The government is giving cash for clunkers. It isn't sending flowers. Still, a small-town florist in central Illinois has been fielding hundreds of calls a day from people inquiring about the rebate program after General Motors began advertising a national toll-free Cash for Clunkers number that's nearly identical to the shop's toll-free number.

General Motors says there's not much it can do about a florist in central Illinois now inundated with calls from people inquiring about cash for clunkers.

The Common Council will conduct a lottery drawing for the city's 2009 sidewalk replacement program at its meeting Monday.

Southwestern Oklahoma State University says it has reached an agreement with the Arapaho-Butler School Board to acquire the facilities of the now-closed Butler Public Schools.