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South Carolina's public employees and retirees will pay more for their health care next year after all, despite legislators passing a budget that covered their premium hikes.

Republican candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are making the hard sell to working-class and women voters while raising the volume of their criticism to cast the other guy as an extremist.

Detroit's mayor slashed wages and reduced benefits for city workers Wednesday without any collective bargaining, one of the most severe steps taken so far as officials grapple with a crisis that has pushed the city to the brink of financial ruin.

The firm now operates under the banner of Digital Benefit Advisors (DBA), a division of Digital Insurance.

An independent fact finder has recommended that Chicago teachers receive a 14.85 percent raise to "compensate teachers for working a longer school day and year," a union official union said Monday.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a generic version of Teva Women's Health's Plan B One-Step, an emergency contraceptive that is availble over-the-couter without a prescription for women age 17 and older.

They work the front lines of the nation's most explosive wildfires, navigating treacherous terrain, dense walls of smoke and tall curtains of flame. Yet thousands of the nation's seasonal firefighters have no health insurance for themselves or their families.

President Barack Obama, eager to shift election-year attention away from the nation's lackluster jobs market, called on Congress Monday to extend tax cuts for only low and middle income earners while allowing taxes to increase for families that make more than $250,000 a year.