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The state of Connecticut is paying down more than $1.6 billion toward its long-term pension debt, which is the largest such payment in state history.The…

The national average is 8 cents higher on Wednesday than Tuesday at $4.25.

The new collection of nearly 100 poems does what its title says — a CD included with the book features many of the 73 authors reading their work.

John Kenneth Galbraith -- social economist, Harvard professor, diplomat -- is dead at 97. His work influenced Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson and generations of U.S. politicians. He spoke to Howard Berkes in 1999.

Officials in the village of Lake Placid and the Town of North Elba are planning to hire an economic development director.

The U.S. Senate has taken the first step towards allowing oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. By a vote of 51-49, opponents were defeated in an effort to remove drilling from the Senate budget resolution.

Two other people were wounded in the shooting, and a suspect has been taken into custody, police in Bolingbrook, Ill., said.

Black Friday is traditionally America's No. 1 shopping day for enthusiastic and aggressive bargain-hunters. Commentator Pam Varkony visits a mall near her home in Allentown, Pa., to assess the shopping crowd and talk to some of the smaller retailers about how busy they are.

Forty years ago, Congress decided that existing anti-discrimination laws were not enough to overcome racism in the voting process. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. The law helped to tumble the segregationist status quo that kept black voters from the polls.

The shooting occurred outside a megachurch on the outskirts of Ames, according to the Story County Sheriff's Office.