Federal Bailout Funds

Democrat Bob Casey urged a federal emergency official to reimburse Pennsylvania for the state's Hurricane Sandy preparations on Wednesday and Republican Pat Toomey is pushing back against a $60.4 billion aid bill he says is excessive. To be sure, Toomey...

The president of the Carmel City Council says an investigation into a nearly $200 million bailout of the city redevelopment commission has turned up evidence that the mayor is deceiving the public and funneling taxpayer dollars through a private group....

Before Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock pulled off a historic upset in this year's Republican Senate primary, he was best known to most political observers as the man who tried to stop Chrysler's government-brokered bankruptcy. Mourdock, who toppled...

With the economy the likely focus of Wednesday night's first debate between President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney, I invited veteran reporter Scott Reeder, the journalist in residence at the Illinois Policy Institute, a free-market think...

Washington County recently was awarded $63,758 in federal funding to supplement local emergency food and shelter programs. The award is based on the county’s number of unemployed people, compared to the number of unemployed in all qualifying...

When sinkholes destroyed their home this time last year, Jamin and Belinda Sell of Whitehall Township lamented the limited amount of relief available for them. They didn't have sinkhole insurance. There was no federal disaster aid available from the...

More than 23,000 struggling Floridians have so far received $1.7 billion in mortgage relief as part of a landmark $25 billion national settlement with five giant home lenders, the Florida Attorney General's Office announced Wednesday. Floridians are...

Catholic Relief Services is defending a grant it shared with another aid group that separately funds contraception, which is a violation of church doctrine. The Baltimore-based group that is the Catholic community's official international humanitarian...

As the federal government and 49 states signed a landmark mortgage relief settlement Thursday, housing advocates and others pointed to shortcomings and raised questions about how the $25 billion plan would be able to provide relief to nearly 2 million...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A $125 billion plan to rescue Spain's banks won't solve Europe's debt crisis or ease the pain of double-digit unemployment across the continent. But it is likely to calm financial markets and buy time for European policymakers...

An Oak Harbor couple claims they were blindsided after a mortgage relief company said they could save their home. Instead, they said, the company allegedly took their money and ran. Larry and Bobby Lister are on a fixed income so when a mortgage relief...

When you’re dipping into savings to keep your community ambulance service going, some say accountability is a small price to pay for financial help. “It’s been a lifesaver, it really has,” Jonas Zeigler, assistant chief and career...