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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.

The former agent to Queen Elizabeth II's official composer was sentenced to prison Monday for embezzling more than 500,000 pounds from his employer over a period of 16 years.

With the sentencing Wednesday of the central figure and his top lieutenant in Alaska's ongoing political corruption investigation, a chapter closes in the saga.

Internal investigations into the conduct of several House members have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Obama signs hate crimes bill President Obama signed hate crime legislation that extends civil rights protections to people based on sexual orientation, saying the nation would be a place where "we're all free to live and love as we see fit." The law expands federal hate crimes to include those committed against people because of ...

SBA: Tribal corporations could still obtain no-bid contracts without set limits.

With his delays exhausted, Bill Allen, the central figure in Alaska's public corruption scandal, was in Anchorage federal court this morning to be sentenced on bribery, conspiracy and tax charges.

Ten years ago the state Legislature was the pivotal player in determining the future of subsistence hunting and fishing management in Alaska.

SENTENCING: Supporters seeking leniency effusive with praise, but sexual abuse allegations resurface.

Attorneys on Monday will begin culling the largest jury pool ever called in Eldorado, Texas, to try to find 14 people in a county of 2,800 who can set aside what they have heard about a polygamist sect whose alleged marriages involving underage girls triggered a police raid that swept more than 400 children into state custody last year.

Citing two unidentified sources, the Washington Post reports that the head of the public integrity unit of the U.S. Department of Justice plans to relinquish his role and return to Massachusetts.

Alaska's congressional delegation has asked the Air Force to station the new F-35 fighter at Eielson Air Force Base.

REJECT MOTION: They say evidence against ex-legislator is overwhelming. Published: October 23rd, 2009 05:28 PM Last Modified: October 23rd, 2009 10:30 PM After months of backtracking in its prosecutions of the Alaska corruption cases, the Justice Department said Friday that former House Speaker Pete Kott received a proper trial in 2007 and his ...

Lt. Dan Welborn tells The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that bullets were flying early Tuesday at the Super 8 Motel on Airport Way.

Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young refused to comment Thursday on allegations he accepted bribes from the businessman at the heart of a federal probe into corruption in Alaska politics.

"For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska" is a documentary that highlights the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention this week in Anchorage.

The key witness in the federal government's corruption cases against several Alaska politicians, including former U.S. Sen.