Shelly Sigo

Alabama got $88 million more in bonuses for its Children's Health Insurance Program than allowed, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general said.

Georgia plans to remove tolls on the busy Georgia 400 on Nov. 21 and make the an early, final bond payment Dec. 1.

Calvin Grigsby is protesting Jefferson County, Ala.'s proposal to reject a claim for $1.63 billion in the county's bankruptcy case.

North Carolina will be open for public-private partnerships at all levels of government by mid-September thanks to an act passed earlier this year and signed by the governor.

Florida’s Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority will seek a new director after a flap between board members about decisions, including the resignation of the CFO.

Miami-Dade County is preparing the first bonds for a $1 billion capital improvement program at PortMiami to prepare for larger ships to arrive through the Panama Canal.

Jefferson County, Ala.'s attorney says that rising interest rates make it "almost inevitable" that the plan to refinance defaulted sewer debt must be renegotiated.

Moody's Investors Service said new tax reform measures enacted by triple-A rated North Carolina are substantial but manageable.

Fitch Ratings has returned Florida's outlook to stable from negative, becoming the last of the three major rating agencies to do so following the economic downturn.

Standard & Poor's dropped the investment-grade rating of an 11-year-old charter school in Boynton Beach, Fla., well into junk territory.

Jefferson County, Ala., finalized an agreement with the IRS to protect the county’s tax-exempt sewer system warrants in return for a $4.5 million payment.

The University of Florida's Shands Healthcare has agreed to pay $26.2 million to settle allegations due to overpayments by Medicare and Medicaid.

Florida's debt management policy now requires that underwriters certify that they are not engaging in prohibited transactions with Iran or Sudan.

Backed by rating upgrades, Atlanta plans to price $328.7 million of water and wastewater revenue bonds Tuesday and plans to sell another $240 million next month.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said Morris Brown College rejected a plan to help the college exit bankruptcy and also help locate a new Atlanta Falcons stadium but the proposal is still in play.

The Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority, which has been in default on toll revenue bonds since July 2011, has agreed to have a traffic study done.

South Carolina's Charleston County Airport District plans to sell $175 million of bonds for improvements at Charleston International Airport.

The Louisville region is well on track toward reaching post-recession highs in employment, says the Louisville, Ky., office of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank.

Officials overseeing bankrupt JeffCo get a lesson in "disclosure responsibilities" from disclosure expert John McNally, a partner at Hawkins, Delafield, & Wood.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott plans to sue Georgia in an attempt to stop the state's 'unchecked' fresh water consumption, which is parching Apalachicola oyster beds.