Ted Stevens News

November 23, 2009 4:31 pm ET - On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh mentioned Sen. Al Franken and the "senator who replaced Ted Stevens" -- Sen.

A bill signed by President Obama three weeks ago includes a requirement that sole-source federal contracts can not be awarded for more than $20 million unless they are justified in writing and in public.

By now, nearly everyone with a television has seen the teases for former Alaska Gov.

A $1 million BP donation to the University of Alaska Fairbanks will allow the Rasmuson Library to catalog and process more than 4,500 boxes of papers and media from the congressional career of former U.S. Sen.

In a visit to the southern Kenai Peninsula this week, Senate President Gary Stevens reminded a Homer Chamber of Commerce audience of Alaskans' dichotomous nature.

A lawyer for a former state lawmaker argued Tuesday that his client's corruption conviction should be thrown out because the same federal prosecutors in former U.S. Sen.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin over coffee.

U.S. military defense lawyers for accused 9/11 conspirator Ramzi bin al Shibh cannot learn what interrogation techniques CIA agents used on the Yemeni before he was moved to Guantanamo to be tried as a terrorist, an Army judge has ruled.

U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd again makes history this week. On Wednesday Byrd, D-W.Va, becomes the longest-serving member ever in the U.S. Congress.

The primary ethical and legal duty of a criminal prosecutor is to serve the interests of justice-not their personal interests of winning at any costs as is too often the case with a many prosecutors.

Health legislation? Environmental legislation? How about more capital project money for local needs? This is your chance to tell us and Sen.

Shepard Fairey has a new legal team and new questions he must answer. The street artist known for his Barack Obama "HOPE" image will be permitted to switch attorneys in his copyright fight against The Associated Press, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

A Connecticut businessman was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Tuesday for conspiring with others to corrupt the oil privatization process in Azerbaijan.

A Congress increasingly skeptical about President Bush's strategy in Iraq is set to scrutinize his request for $87 billion in emergency money to fund the U.S. effort there and in Afghanistan, but it is expected to approve the funds overwhelmingly.

A former union president imprisoned for racketeering testified Monday that his late boss expected "favors" in Albany from then New York Senate leader Joseph Bruno in return for investing union pension funds with the company that employed Bruno.

A federal judge in Los Angeles has rebuffed an effort by the former chief executive of building giant KB Home to exclude materials related to his marriage settlement and other evidence during his upcoming trial for allegedly manipulating stock options.

It looks like Macon Mayor Robert Reichert is close to proposing a pay scale for city employees - something that's been a top priority for years but has always been too expensive to put in place.

When the noted litigator Brendan Sullivan represented former Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska in his public corruption trial last year, Mr.

Bill Allen, a former Alaska oil executive and a key witness in the corruption trial of U.S. Sen.

Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio says a federal judge should start from scratch in reconsidering his sentence for insider trading.