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An attorney for Hobby Lobby Stores said Thursday that the arts and crafts chain plans to defy a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill, despite risking potential fines of up to $1.3 million per day.

Georgia labor officials say metro Atlanta's jobless rate has dropped to 8 percent.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday denied a request to block part of the federal health care law that requires employee health-care plans to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar emergency contraception pills.

WellPoint's recently completed purchase of Amerigroup will boost the amount of government business it captures, BMO Capital said in a report Thursday.

West Virginia is getting federal funding to help workers who lost their jobs or were displaced because of Superstorm Sandy.

State labor officials say about 43,000 Connecticut residents could lose emergency unemployment benefits at the end of December unless Congress continues the program.

The Kentucky state agency that monitors unemployment is reporting that jobless rates improved in 99 counties in November but worsened in 20 others.