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Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols says the state will appeal Judge William Morvant's ruling.

Republicans are especially worried about cuts to the Pentagon.

This new addition request comes after six years of budget cuts that have taken $690 million out of funding for colleges, and tuition has filled only part of that gap.

The sale will be held at the Parish Courthouse at 10 a.m.

A group of House and Senate lawmakers now has until Dec. 13 to produce a spending deal to stave off another shutdown and possible default in early 2014.

Congress seems to operate from crisis to crisis these days.

The legal, finance and purchasing departments have seen a spike in their expenses.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he told House Speaker John Boehner he's willing to negotiate with Republicans on their priorities, but not under the threat of "economic chaos." Obama spoke to reporters at the White House Tuesday in the midst of the eighth day of a partial government shutdown and a few hours after calling Boehner...

Republicans have refused to budge without concessions on Democrats' health care law.

A meeting at the White House yesterday produced no progress and both sides were still finger-pointing after the meeting.

Republicans are proposing bills to keep open small slices of government, but Democrats are rejecting the idea.

With Congress unable to agree on a budget or even a short-term emergency bill, it's increasingly likely that the federal government will suffer its first shutdown in 17 years. Leaders in the House of Representatives and the Senate will trade proposals on Monday, but neither side is optimistic that they will reach an agreement.

If no emergency spending bill is passed by Congress before midnight Monday, the government will go into a partial shutdown.

Cruz and his allies have been speaking on the Senate floor for more than 16 hours.

Under relentless pressure from their right wing, Republicans are in the midst of a risky fight with President Barack Obama they know they will lose, little more than a year before an election that history says they should win.

The Senate's No. 2 Democrat says the chamber may come out in favor of a smaller patch for bankrolling the government than the one envisioned in a temporary spending bill passed by the Republican-dominated House.

President Obama has already vowed to oppose the measure.

While raising the possibility of a government closure, the latest GOP plan is actually aimed at avoiding one.

The Lafayette Conslidated Government's 2014 budget was approved tonight alongside significant pay increases for all Lafayette government employees.

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The fate of a proposed pay raise for Lafayette city-parish employees will be decided when the City-Parish Council meets Thursday to adopt next year's budget.