Southwest

An almost unprecedented 40% increase in oil and gas tax collections pushed Oklahoma revenues to $836 million in August.

A revival in Arkansas's sales tax revenues overcame August's weak income tax collections.

Former El Paso County Judge Anthony Cobos pleads guilty to federal corruption charges involving selection of underwriters for $40 million county GO refunding in 2007.

A growing number of Texas school districts are hitting their cap on the tax rate for operations and maintenance costs, which Moody's Investors Services views as a negative credit factor.

Texas received an historic low interest rate of 0.201% on its Aug. 27 sale to tax and revenue anticipation notes, state comptroller Susan Combs said.

For the first time, Arizona will issue $200 million of short-term notes to repay federal loans for its unemployment insurance fund.

Texas highway officials tapped the brakes on a proposal to turn over to cities the upkeep of 2,000 miles of urban state roads as more than a dozen state and local officials protested the plan Thursday to the Texas Transportation Commission.

El Paso changed underwriters to sell $61 million of bonds for a downtown baseball stadium after the first try failed.

Initiative effort is under way in Oklahoma for statewide vote on $500 million of bonds for school storm shelters.

Bonds for Willacy County’s $7 million jail in the town of Raymondville are among several being audited by the Internal Revenue Service.