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When they saw the house on El Dorado Drive in this Los Angeles suburb being painted a startling orange and green and giant billboards hung on the outside, Scott and Beth Hostetler's neighbors were initially angry and confused.

When President Barack Obama rolls out his 2013 budget proposal Monday, it's likely to unleash another round of political finger-pointing on Capitol Hill.

Lending by Britain's top five banks shrank every quarter last year - an embarrassing blow to the Chancellor's Project Merlin agreement.

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has lifted its interest rates by 15 basis points because it says higher funding costs have made its margins unsustainable.

Fifteen people have filed police reports in Macon and Bibb County since the start of the year after discovering their Social Security number had been fraudulently used to file taxes.

Documents detail the terms of a discounted mortgage loan received by U.S. Rep. Howard McKeon from the now-defunct Countrywide Financial Corp.

The Happy Road Runners and Cape May Retirement Village are planning a trip to historic Colonial Williamsburg April 17-20. Friday, January 13, 2012 "Meet the Candidates" night was held by the Wilmington, Blanchester and Vernon Adams Republican women's clubs on Jan.

OurA East End Report , a wrap-up of the week's news from Greenport to Riverhead to Montauk, recaps each Patch site's most compelling story.

A fresh scandal is sweeping the City this weekend after it emerged that several banks and brokers, including taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland, dismissed staff amid an investigation into alleged rigging of one the world's key measures of interest rates.

Feb. 9, 2012: Copies of of President Obama's fiscal 2013 federal budget are readied for shipment at the Government Printing Office in Washington.

In a rough economy, Georgia's leaders are looking to collect every nickel owed to the state.

Ohio regulators say they recognize the approval of higher rates for American Electric Power hurt small-business customers who saw their bills increase by up to 40 percent or more after the rates took effect last month.

After sparking a firestorm of religious and political controversy, President Obama announced his compromise on the contraceptive requirement of his health care law, reports Norah O'Donnell. As part of our continuing series "On the Road," Steve Hartman tells the story of a 12-year-old named Noah who raised enough money to keep his grandmother from ... (more)

In this week's Republican address, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell touts the various achievements of GOP leadership on the heels of President Obama's 2013 budget announcement.

President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to extend a payroll tax cut for the remainder of the year as another deadline nears for Congress to act or see taxes go up for millions of working Americans.

Carl Hartman had big ideas before he joined The Associated Press in 1944 and became a foreign correspondent.

Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney told a conservative audience in Washington Friday he would make sweeping changes to Medicare and Social Security.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a lead investigator into the mortgage collapse that wobbled the U.S. economy, hasn't taken the title "Sheriff of Wall Street" that one of his predecessors rode all the way to the governor's mansion.

Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke says people are spending less because they are stuck in "underwater" homes, which are worth less than what is owed on the mortgage.

After five years and four million foreclosures, the nation is now one big step closer to a national mortgage servicing standard.