Southeast

Lehman Brothers Special Financing Inc. claims the trustee for Jefferson County, Ala.'s $3.2 billion of defaulted sewer warrants is improperly withholding its swap payments.

PortMiami's "Deep Dredge" harbor project will be mostly financed with bonds to ready the port for the Panama Canal expansion in early 2015. Miami-Dade County will pick up the federal costs to get the project done.

The West Virginia Legislature is considering pension reform measures as a way of dealing with a $5.6 billion liability.

The Louisiana State Bond Commission will consider options by the Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District to refinance $294 million of variable-rate debt and other obligations for the Superdome in New Orleans.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded Perry County, Ky.'s general obligation bond rating to Baa2 from A3 noting dependence on volatile coal severance taxes.

A lawsuit was filed contending that public school districts in Georgia improperly used taxpayers' money to finance a campaign against a charter school ballot measure.

The Miami City Commission is expected to consider refinancing a two-year, $45 million note that is near maturity using Wells Fargo Bank NA as underwriter. The note currently is held by Wells Fargo.

Spanish infrastructure investment giant Cintra will be the private partner on a more than $1 billion public-private partnership to develop the Route 460 Corridor project in southeastern Virginia, sources said.

Kentucky and Indiana agencies Tuesday are poised to approve the long-awaited master agreement for the financing and construction of the massive $2.6 billion Ohio River Bridges Project.

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority administrator Beverly Scott will become the new general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.