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Pennsylvania is distributing $8.6 million in restitution from JPMorgan Chase & Co., to municipalities and nonprofit organizations who were victims of a scheme to rig bids of municipal bond reinvestment contracts, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office announced.

A bill has been introduced in the state legislature to sell the naming rights for public facilities.

Increase in passenger traffic at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, Calif. partly attributed to new international terminal offerings.

An Orange County Superior Court Judge has 90 days to rule on a lawsuit filed by the California Department of Finance and the chancellor of the state's community colleges against Orange County after the county diverted money from education to balance its budget.

A proposal has been introduced in California that would exempt 20,000 local and regional mass transit works across the state from pension reform passed by state lawmakers last year.

California lawmakers will hold hearings to investigate the use of off-budget accounts by state agencies

Standard & Poor's upgraded California's general obligation rating to A from A-minus in a move the municipal bond market has expected.

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth opens a Reno, Nev., office and hires 14-year bond veteran, Scott Shaver, formerly of Sherman & Howard, to run it.

Build America Mutual Assurance Company announced Wednesday night that it has been licensed to operate in the state of California.

The majority of the 202 California cities that Standard & Poor's rates are likely to see improving credit quality in 2013 as their economies recover and revenues strengthen.