The Supreme Court denied a request Dec. 10 to review the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that approves a private settlement of employees claims for unpaid overtime based on the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Kansas could lose more than 40,000 jobs next year, most of them in the private sector, if no deal is reached to avert mandatory tax hikes and spending cuts to defense and other federal operations under the "fiscal cliff," according to an economic analysis.

Like their counterparts in other southern states, Arkansas Republicans denounced "Obamacare" during this year's election campaign and called for its repeal. But now that they've won control of the Legislature for the first time in 138 years, GOP lawmakers are considering something that would be anathema to conservatives elsewhere --...