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Treasury bills mixed (AP via Yahoo! News) - Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction with three-month bills rising to the highest level in four weeks.

Colo.: Insurance Bills Would Crack Down (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Democrats plan to introduce a package of bills to require health insurance firms to get prior approval for rate hikes, punish them for improper denial of claims and encourage efficiencies.

28-day central bank bills fetch 2.97% (Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news) - The Bank of Thailand yesterday sold two billion baht worth of 28-day bills for a weighted average accepted yield of 2.97277%. Accepted bid yields ranged from 2.95% to 2.98%, with the bid coverage ratio 5.74 times.

Cash-Strapped Clinton Fails To Pay Bills (CBS News) - Hillary Clinton's cash-strapped campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills - freeing up cash for media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles, the Politico reports.

Bills Receive Two Compensatory Draft Picks (WGRZ-TV Buffalo) - ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- The NFL awarded the Buffalo Bills two additional picks -- including a fourth-rounder -- in next month's draft, compensating the team for the number of free agents it lost last offseason.

Clinton not paying her bills (UPI) - The U.S. political campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., isn't paying some of its bills in order to spend money on advertisements, The Politico said Monday.

Counterfeit bills reported in Sumner County (BizJournals) - Officials from Volunteer State Bank say they have received counterfeit $10 and $20 dollar bills and want to warn merchants of the fake bills circulating in the area.

Treasury Bills Mixed (San Francisco Chronicle) - Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction with three-month bills rising to the highest level in four weeks. The Treasury Department auctioned $24 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.440 percent, up from 1.200...

Poll: Tax rebate will go for bills (BizJournals) - The rebate taxpayers are scheduled get in May will go to pay bills, according to the Business Journal's latest online poll.

Tattered $20 bills linked to D.B. Cooper skyjacking are going up for auction (Seattle Times) - Brian Ingram found three bundles of deteriorating $20 bills on the shore of the Columbia River near Portland in 1980 that were linked to the D.B. Cooper skyjacking. Now, he's planning to sell them at auction.