This weekend the Department for Work and Pensions proposed applying store card interest rates to social fund loans . After cross party outrage, this mean-spirited suggestion was followed by a red-faced, whip-smart reversal, with spokespeople rigorously denying this was ever the plan. There\'s one ...

ARARAT - The Ararat Legacy Club will receive a Federal Government grant of $6990 through the Veterans and Community Grants program to help conduct a series of bus trips for members to help reduce social isolation.

A former University of California, Davis, employee was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to a year and a day in prison for theft of government property. Beverly Benford of Sacramento pleaded guilty in June, admitting a six-year spree of spending federal funds on hundreds of items for herself, including ...

LYNN - Lynn and Revere were among 32 communities statewide to receive federal grants Monday to provide job training for low-income residents through the municipal housing authority.

Rice and cattle were once the agricultural kings of Southeast Texas, but some local farmers now are looking forward to potentially lucrative crops - harvests that can be used as renewable energy sources, such as sorghum, cane and some types of rice.