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WASHINGTON – A U.S. grand jury has indicted eight Mexican drug makers on charges they sold steroids to Americans via the Internet in what the Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday was its largest operation against suppliers of the banned substances. Indictments in U.S. District Court in San Diego include charges …

PHILADELPHIA – The Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the legislation passed last summer giving raises to hundreds of officials — repealed last month after a public outcry — was constitutional. In a ruling last Thursday, the court said it would hear a constitutional challenge by a political activist …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy on Tuesday awarded Textron Inc.’s (TXT) Bell Helicopter unit and Boeing Co. (BA) a $1 billion contract to buy components for 16 V-22 tiltrotor aircraft through September 2009. The Navy said the contract would pay for long lead components associated with the manufacture and delivery …