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Employers that still offer workers traditional pension plans are in line for hefty insurance premium increases under the budget agreement struck in Congress, the second time in two years that lawmakers have turned to them to help finance spending deals.

Some frustrated consumers are sending premium payments to insurers who have never heard of them.

A jury on Tuesday recommended life in prison rather than the death penalty for Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari in the 2001 mob-style killing of a former gambling executive who also founded the Miami Subs restaurant chain.

A lawyer for ABC is asking a judge to throw out a defamation suit over its coverage of a meat product called lean, finely textured beef.

Federal prosecutors say a Harvard University student trying to get out of taking a final exam made the bomb threats that led to the evacuations of four campus buildings this week.

According to the annual report released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services , the estimated number of victimized children in the 2012 fiscal year was 686,000.

A Minnesota woman is hoping the state's highest court will clear her driving history of drunken driving charges she incurred as she fled from her abusive husband a little more than two years ago.

This photo taken Nov. 25, 2013 shows a University of Maryland Police Department vehicle patrolig Baltimore Avenue in College Park, Md.

A lawyer for Vice President Joe Biden's niece says she's undergoing treatment after her arrest on charges she scuffled with New York City police.

The attorney who helped get George Zimmerman acquitted of murder charges earlier this year is being investigated by the Florida Bar after a complaint was filed against him.

Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger has been moved to a federal prison in Oklahoma, although it was not immediately clear when or why.

Senate Republican leaders are criticizing a bipartisan budget deal, parting ways with their House counterparts who shepherded the measure through that chamber last week.

This photo taken Dec. 11, 2013 shows House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., right, accompanied by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaking during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

The director of Cover Oregon said Monday that the state's insurance exchange has significantly increased enrollment in private health plans to an estimated 7,500 people.

Twelve ordinary people, some too young to remember when Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal were Hollywood's golden couple, will now decide who owns an Andy Warhol portrait of the iconic blond beauty.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Monday in a news release that it reached the deal with Venture Inc., which runs a Save-A-Lot grocery store on Ellis Avenue in west Jackson.

Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari should be sentenced to die for a prominent businessman's slaying because the gangland-style hit was coldly planned for weeks and the victim suffered after he was shot multiple times, a prosecutor told jurors Monday.

A man convicted of running a charity scam that stole millions of dollars intended for Navy veterans was sentenced in an Ohio courtroom Monday to 28 years in prison, the Ohio attorney general's office said.

The federal government said Monday it has no evidence that antibacterial chemicals used in liquid soaps and washes help prevent the spread of germs, and it is reviewing research suggesting they may pose health risks.

A Cleveland police official says police believe the recent slayings of two transgender women were motivated by hate.