Federal investigators have subpoenaed six years of records from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as part of an investigation into whether the hospital overbilled Medicare by admitting patients for short stays who could have been treated less expensively as outpatients.

"Washington, D.C., is a fun, fun place to be," Gov. Deval Patrick told me during a phone interview the other day. But then he caught himself and added a quick coda: "unless you're a politician."

WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney outpaced other GOP presidential hopefuls and President Barack Obama in Missouri fundraising last year, drawing heavily from St. Louis-area business leaders the former Massachusetts governor began cultivating during his first run for the White House.

Fueled by momentum and the Mormon vote, Mitt Romney scored an easy victory Saturday in Nevada's GOP presidential caucuses, winning a majority of conservatives, tea party believers and Republicans who say he's the best candidate to beat President Barack Obama.

After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.

AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.