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WASHINGTON – Many states are cutting their budgets and dipping into emergency funds to make ends meet, according to a report released Monday. “For 2002 fiscal, state revenues were down negative 6 percent,” said Raymond Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors Association, which released the report with the National …

When redistricting forced Michigan’s two Democratic representatives, Lynn Rivers and John Dingell, to face off in a primary, women’s groups rushed to back Rivers. But although she was a popular legislator, she was trounced by 76-year-old Dingell, the “dean” of the House.He has held his seat since 1955 and is …

BOGOTA, Colombia – Soldiers rescued a kidnapped Colombian bishop Friday after a battle with the rebels who were holding him, government officials said. Bishop Jorge Enrique Jimenez, president of the Latin American bishops conference, was unharmed, an army spokeswoman said. The Rev. Desiderio Orjuela, who was kidnapped Monday along with …