<div id="subtitle">Alaska Gov. Palin defends per diem payments, says governor is cheaper than her predecessor</div><div><p>Gov. Sarah Palin's office on Monday defended the governor's practice of collecting per diem from the state while living at her home in Wasilla, saying she was costing the state ...

<div id="subtitle">Palin's deft handling of confrontation with Republican boss made her a reformer on the rise</div><div><p>Sarah Palin was a relative newcomer to politics when she took on Alaska's Republican boss and quietly challenged his ethics. From the outside, though, it looked as if she ...