Anticorruption whistle-blower takes Alaska's top job
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The state's first female governor, sworn in Monday, promised to keep Big Oil from exploiting Alaskan resources.
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The government now contends that a whistle-blower within Cell Therapeutics was the mastermind of a much bigger scheme than the ones on which he reported.
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Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski  announced on Friday the creation of a new state agency to  oversee oil and gas infrastructure as a response to the  widespread pipeline corrosion that partially shut the giant  Prudhoe Bay oil field in August.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed an outside prosecutor Wednesday to lead a criminal investigation into the destruction of C.I.A. interrogation videotapes.
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Bernard Kerik, the no-nonsense former New York police commissioner, was named by President George Bush yesterday to take over at the Department of Homeland Security, charged with keeping America safe from terrorism.
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HARTFORD, Conn. Sept. 23, 2004 - A top aide to former Gov. John G. Rowland was indicted Thursday along with the state&#39;s largest construction contractor on charges they participated in a corrupt criminal organization run out of the governor&#39;s office.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa  Murkowski, dogged by criticism about being appointed to her job  by her governor father, will face former Democratic Gov. Tony  Knowles Nov. 2 in her first statewide election.
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In her first year as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has plunged ahead with the fearlessness of an arctic explorer.
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Under the glare of the port lights, federal agents watched as the GMC Yukon approached the immigration booth. Two years of legwork &#151; interviewing sources, listening to wiretaps and watching just as they were watching now &#151; had led to this. Aurora Torres, the suspected smuggler, was behind the wheel.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzerâs communications director, a central figure in an attempt to use the State Police to embarrass the governorâs main rival, is expected to return to work.
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A former Alaska lawmaker accused of getting thousands of dollars out of a corrections-company consultant in exchange for his help in the Legislature was convicted of bribery Monday.
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Alaska, the frontier boom state, is looking at scandal, waning political clout and maybe even a bust.
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In the latest sign of corruption problems for Republicans, a corporate executive testified Friday that his employees worked for months to remodel the Alaska home of Sen. Ted Stevens.
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The U.S. Open hired a security firm run by a former New York City police commissioner, set up a whistle-blower hotline and is taking other steps to make sure it doesn't wind up with a gambling scandal.
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A Ukranian law enforcement official claims he was fired because his investigations into a multi-million pound fraud and money laundering scheme showed the money had been used to fund the election campaign of ...
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 3 -- The government of Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has pressured its most prominent anti-corruption official to step down, weeks after the arrest of a powerful former governor from the ruling party on corruption charges.
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A slain American contractor feared for his life after turning whistleblower