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Volkswagen will benefit from the largest economic development deal in South Carolina history as it launches a new, all-electric brand of Scout SUVs and pickups.

Flint will receive state pension funding help but plans to press for more pension and local government revenue aid to preserve its struggling tax base as it recovers from the 2014 water contamination crisis.

The ruling may open the way for approval of a payout to bondholders as small as 0.21%.

Big national banks would be banned from state and local government contracts in Oklahoma if their policies "discriminate" against the firearm industry.

The state seeks "long-term stable funding" to advance the nation's largest infrastructure project, which remains in slow motion after almost 15 years.

But the Securities and Exchange Commission's best-execution proposal, largely dismissed as duplicating an existing Financial Industry Regulatory Authority edict, could have wide-ranging implications for trading firms in options, bonds, and crypto securities as well as equities.

The Kaiser Family Foundation's report drew the ire of the American Hospital Association, which said it excluded many community benefits from its analysis.

"In short, it appears that the end of the current tightening cycle is coming into view," said Wells Fargo Securities Chief Economist Jay Bryson.

A plan to build a light rail system in the Texas capital city has come under financial and political pressure.

A legislative investigation found Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom responsible for an error that was overlooked for a decade and ballooned to $3.5 billion.