Sorry, says senator arrested in toilet
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Republican senator and anti-gay campaigner Larry Craig seems to have finally accepted that his illustrious political career is over.
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A Wisconsin man who wrote "Kip Hawley is an Idiot" on a plastic bag containing toiletries said he was detained at an airport security checkpoint for about 25 minutes before authorities concluded the statement was not a threat.
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A Democratic congressman, William Jefferson, whose freezer was allegedly stuffed with $90,000 (Â£45,000) in cash, was charged yesterday with bribery, money-laundering, racketeering and wire fraud.
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Senator Larry E. Craig of Ohio was admonished by his colleagues over his arrest and guilty plea in a sex sting in a bathroom.
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US Republican Senator Larry Craig Tuesday vehemently denied he was gay, despite pleading guilty after being arrested by police probing lewd incidents in an airport bathroom.
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A Republican U.S. senator  who admitted to &quot;serious sin&quot; after he was linked last week to  a Washington escort service apologized for the sex scandal on  Monday, but said he will go back to work.
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NEW YORK - Police arrested state Sen. Kevin Parker on Thursday after he allegedly punched a traffic agent who was writing him a ticket.  The Brooklyn Democrat was charged with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, police said. He was being held at the 67th Precinct stationhouse.
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An offended Indonesian politician received a flurry of apologies from senior Australian officials on Thursday over his alleged ill treatment by police during a visit to Sydney.
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Just letting off steam  ...  it's incredulous that former House Speaker Thomas Finneran has a radio gig.  Found guilty of  obstruction of justice, probably guilty of making self-interested political deals, Finneran shouldn't even get a job cleaning bathrooms.
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A state senator used foul language in a talk to high school students in his district, but defended himself by saying he was just repeating what some students wrote about him on a Web site.
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A Louisiana senator publicly apologises for "a serious sin" after his name is linked to an alleged Washington prostitution ring.
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HARTFORD, Conn. - A state Senate leader says he has the scoop on the poop in the state Capitol...
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Senator Larry E. Craig of Idaho pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after making what a police officer described as sexual advances from an adjoining stall.
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'No, we won't tell you how much toilet paper is used at Number 10' Information Commissioner Richard Thomas is to announce plans to deter vexatious requests made under the Freedom of Information Act.â¦
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Rush Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours Monday at Palm Beach International Airport after authorities said they found a bottle of Viagra in his possession without a prescription.
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A Republican lawmaker slugging a Democratic colleague in the Alabama Senate this week reminded political observers of another black eye for the Legislature: Eight years ago, the lieutenant governor urinated in a jug, discreetly, at the front of the Senate chamber.
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A U.S. citizen has been arrested for urinating on a flagstaff outside Lithuania's presidential palace, Interfax-BNS news agency said Monday.