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The controversial pension levy being imposed on all state employees is set to top the agenda at a conference today for IMPACT members working in the public service.The event takes place every two year...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. -- Missouri early Wednesday executed a man who killed a good Samaritan who had stopped on the road to help him, ending a nearly four-year period without an execution in the state. Texas, meanwhile, executed its 15th prisoner this year.

Policy requires US automakers to produce cars and trucks that get an average 35.5mpg by 2016America's gas-guzzling automobiles were heading towards extinction yesterday as Barack Obama set strict limits on car exhaust emissions and directed producers to make a more fuel-efficient vehicle fleet. The policy requires US auto makers to produce cars and trucks that achieve an average 35.5mpg by 2016, and will reduce America's carbon dioxide emissions by 30%. 'For the first time in history we have set in motion a national policy aimed at increasing gas mileage and decreasing greenhouse gas pollution for all new trucks and cars sold in the United States,' Obama told state governors, including California's Arnold Schwarzenegger, car industry executives and environmentalists in the White House rose garden.Obama said America had paid a high price for its dependence on imported oil, and the change was long overdue. 'What is all the more tragic is that we've known about these costs in one way or a