House Ways and Means Committee members have introduced legislation designed to spur more employee-ownership in private industry.

A top South Carolina Senate Republican won approval Tuesday for a bill that gives employers tax breaks to spur hiring of the state's unemployed.

Insurance Department Director Michael McRaith is leaving in June to take a post in the President Barack Obama's administration.

Gov. Mary Fallin defended efforts to create an insurance exchange for uninsured Oklahomans on Monday, explaining if the state does not have an exchange in place by 2013 the federal government will step in and create its own.