Auto dealers plead with federal government for help
Canadian auto dealers are pleading with the federal government to ?come up with creative measures? to help make increasingly hard-to-get credit available to the small business owners.

Hartford Authority Can't Use Federal Funds To Settle Gordon Matter
The federal government has told the Hartford Housing Authority that it cannot use federal funds to settle a lawsuit brought by former Executive Director Lancelot Gordon because Gordon engaged in "a pattern of financial improprieties."

Federal green-fuel fleet actually full of gas guzzlers
WASHINGTON -- The federal government has invested billions of dollars over the past 16 years, building a fleet of 112,000 alternative-fuel vehicles to serve as a model for a national movement away from fossil fuels.

GAO says federal repair costs cannot be calculated
The government lacks a coordinated approach to determine the total burden that taxpayers face for repairs and maintenance of federal property needed to support key missions ? including military bases, office buildings, hospitals, national parks and laboratories, the U.S. Government Accountability Office concluded.

Lake in the Haynesville Shale at center of state-federal dispute
In the midst of a rush to tap what could be the biggest natural gas discovery in the country, Louisiana is entrenched in a heated legal battle with the federal government over control of a sprawling lake that holds a...

Citibank Deposits in U.A.E. Guaranteed by Government (Update1)
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Citibank NA, the consumer banking unit of Citgroup Inc., said its customer deposits in the United Arab Emirates are guaranteed by the U.A.E. federal cabinet as a crisis of confidence wiped out half its U.S.- based parent?s market value in three days.

Government push to cork alcopop loophole
THE Federal Government is set to shut a major loophole to stop alcoholic drink makers avoiding tax by passing products off as beer that look and taste like alcopops.

Federal prosecutors seek release of BALCO transcripts
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to unseal thousands of pages of grand jury transcripts and other documents from the government's BALCO steroids investigation.

Federal agency to guarantee $1.4 trillion in banks' debt
Federal regulators will guarantee as much as $1.4 trillion in U.S. banks' debt in a bid to get the distressed financial system pumping again. They also took steps Friday to make it easier for private investors to buy banks seized by the government.

Stevens trial witness now says he lied about federal immunity deal
WASHINGTON ? One of the government's witnesses against convicted Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska says he didn't tell the truth on the stand about an immunity deal with the Justice Department in exchange for his testimony. But federal prosecutors said Friday that his current story is the false one.

New Study Might Spell the End for Federal Reading Program
Schools receiving federal money for reading instruction haven't made significant progress, study finds.

Airport-worker recruitment firm agrees to refund money to federal government
By BRYON OKADA A company that helped recruit and select the first wave of federal airport screeners for the new Transportation Security Administration after 9-11 has agreed to pay $5.6 million to settle the federal government?s complaint that it overcharged the agency, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Minnesota-based NCS Pearson was one of the first companies hired by the TSA as the ...

Harris RF helps Monroe County get increased federal funding
A 52-percent jump in federal spending in Monroe County over a five-year period was driven largely by a dramatic rise in defense contracting, especially at one booming local company.

Federal regulators guarantee bank debt
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators will guarantee as much as $1.4 trillion in U.S. banks' debt in a bid to get the distressed financial system pumping again. They also took steps Friday to make it easier for private investors to buy failed banks seized by the government.

NC counties get federal help after tornadoes
The federal government has declared several North Carolina counties disaster areas where fatal tornadoes destroyed homes and businesses last weekend. The U.S. Small Business Administration issued the declaration Friday for eight counties. It allows residents to apply for low-interest federal loans and disaster grants from the state. The hardest hit areas were in Johnston and Wilson counties, ...

Federal judge orders release of 5 Guantanamo detainees
A federal judge ordered the release of five Guantanamo Bay detainees Thursday, saying the government failed to show that they were "enemy combatants."

Ski area gets federal okay to expand
The federal government is supporting a land swap that is key to New Hampshire expanding its Cannon Mountain ski area.

AP IMPACT: Govt pays millions for unapproved drugs
Taxpayers have shelled out at least $200 million since 2004 for medications that have never been reviewed by the government for safety and effectiveness but are still covered under Medicaid, an Associated Press analysis of federal data has found. Millions of private patients are taking such drugs, as well.

Dubai Not Seeking Federal Government Credit Line, Official Says
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai, the second-biggest of the seven sheikhdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates, is not in talks with the federal government on setting up a state-funded loan facility for its companies, a government official said.

Federal regulators shut 2 California thrifts
Government says they fell victim to the acute distress in the housing market in that state.