Skip to content

News

News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 29, 2008

US Sen. Stevens (R) indicted: 7 false statements counts

Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator and a figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, has been indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home. Stevens, 84, has been dogged by a federal investigation into whether he pushed…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 29, 2008

Bill to renew probes into civil rights killings stalls

The Clarion-Ledger, 7/29/8 The U.S. Senate on Monday halted legislation that would have created a cold-cases unit inside the Justice Department to pursue unpunished killings from the civil rights era. The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act would give the department $10 million a year to examine civil rights killings from before 1970. Another…