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A Pentagon report on the aftermath of the friendly fire death of former NFL star Pat Tillman recommends action against Army officers who passed on misleading and inaccurate information about Tillman's death in Afghanistan.

This semester, Sacramento State University launched a new textbook rental program. There are limited titles available, but the program is helping some students save serious cash.

An Army report that will be released on Monday reveals that major mistakes were made in the post-war planning in Iraq. The report, which will be released on Monday, finds that operations that were poorly planned and badly mismanaged.

Since the health law was enacted, 22 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws or regulations that encouraged insurers to begin selling child-only policies again, a study found. But in many states there are no restrictions on how much insurers can charge for them.

Even as deaths in acute-care hospitals declined in recent years, the use of intensive care units in the last month of life increased. There has been greater use of hospice care, but much of it was for three days or less at the very end of life, a study finds.

Several states are scrambling to decide what information about quality would be useful to the millions of people and small businesses expected to shop for insurance coverage in new marketplaces beginning in October.

Leaders of the Export-Import Bank of the United States voted Thursday to help fund the expansion of an oil refinery in Indonesia.

The man accused of operating a Ponzi scheme is expected to plead guilty to charges he engineered one of the largest investment scams in U.S. history. Bernard Madoff faces more than 100 years in prison. Some of the victims of the multi-billion-dollar investment scheme will have their say at Thursday's plea hearing.

President Barack Obama's new proposals for earmarks are getting flak from his own party. Congressional Democrats — backed by some Republicans — say the Constitution gives them the power of the purse, and they'll use it as they see fit.

Pat Quinn has been sworn in as Illinois' new governor, replacing Rod Blagojevich who was ousted on charges of abuse of power. Quinn is considered a reformer and a political maverick, an outsider even in his own party.