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Republican lawmakers ain't too happy about a plan by some business groups to pressure them into supporting Jan Brewer's budget proposal, likely to include a tax increase.

HELENA - Staffers for U.S. Sen. Max Baucus got an earful last week at public meetings organized by the senator to talk about health care reform, and one message came through loud and clear. Yes, we heard plenty from supporters of a single-payer system ...

HELENA - Staffers for U.S. Sen. Max Baucus got an earful last week at public meetings organized by the senator to talk about health care reform, and one message came through loud and clear.

DETROIT (AP) -- Justin Abdelkader's first NHL goal is hard to top.

WARWICK - Several years ago, Leo Kaytes, CEO of Leo Kaytes Ford on Route 94, and his son Leo R. Kaytes, president of the long established local dealership, decided to present T-shirts to all the students in the Warwick Valley High School graduating class.

GLENDALE — The following are odds and ends from the local sports scene.

GLENDALE — The following are odds and ends from the area sports scene.

A little more than five years ago, you probably had never heard of Jon and Kate Gosselin. Now, five years and sextuplets later, they're on the cover of every tabloid newspaper and many magazines, guests on TV talk shows and the subject of debate on countless blogs and Internet sites.