Maine lawmakers gave final approval on Thursday to a plan to renegotiate the state's liquor contract to pay its hospitals' years-old debt of hundreds of millions of dollars for Medicaid services one of Gov. Paul LePage's top priorities.

Arizona lawmakers endorsed a key element of President Barack Obama's health care law in a huge political victory for Republican Gov. Jan Brewer.

A self-directed brokerage option is the ultimate freedom for 401(k) investors, but is this decision to give employees unfettered choice really just no decision at all?