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Could Stevens and Young be indicted so close to elections?

Campaigning under the cloud of federal investigations is tough enough, but could Sen. Ted Stevens or Rep. Don Young have the added worries of an indictment before they face the voters?

PDF: 3 decades of corruption

FBI investigations into Alaska politics

Inouye stands by Stevens

WASHINGTON -- It's not unusual for a senator to hold a fundraiser for an embattled colleague. If they're in different parties, however, that's another story.

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E-mails may violate ethics code

An intriguing e-mail exchange between U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and Port of Anchorage director Bill Sheffield caused an instant flap Monday, with Mayor Mark Begich directing that it be investigated as a possible violation of the city's new ethics code.

E-mails exchanged between Stevens and Sheffield

Stevens files, braces for fight

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens said Thursday his re-election race this year would be tough but he expects to win even with the ongoing federal investigation of both he and his son.

Video: Sen. Stevens press conference

Stevens tells state to get going on gas line

U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens minced no words with Alaska's Legislature: Get moving on the natural gas pipeline project, he told the 60-member group Tuesday.

About 100 people listen, speak out at pipeline meeting

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Ben Stevens proclaims innocence on talk show

Former state Senate President Ben Stevens unexpectedly called a local radio show Friday, talking publicly about the Alaska corruption investigation for the first time since the FBI searched his office more than a year ago.

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Stevens aide says no sign Veco helped with fundraisers

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ted Stevens' campaign has no evidence a contracting firm paid workers to help run the Alaska senator's fundraisers, the campaign treasurer said, disputing one employee's claim that he parked cars and performed odd jobs while on the contractor's payroll.

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Governor urges Stevens to break his silence

Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday that she and Alaskans are owed a more thorough explanation from U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens about why he is under federal investigation.

Contractor: I worked for Ted Stevens on Veco's dime

WASHINGTON -- A construction worker who oversaw renovation of Sen. Ted Stevens' home said his company also paid him to help run fundraisers for the Alaska Republican, a practice that appears to violate federal campaign finance laws.

Live updates from the trial

Bill Allen testimony and FBI surveillance tapes

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GOP divides ethics cases of senators

WASHINGTON -- Responding to criticism that GOP senators who've found themselves in trouble this summer have been treated very differently by their peers, the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate outlined why he thinks each should get a "case-by-case" treatment.

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Stevens' rise to political power started out slowly

"I was born with an itch to be in political office." So said Ted Stevens in the summer of 1967 as he prepared for a second bid for the United States Senate. It's a itch he has never stopped scratching.

Stevens not ready for the gold watch

JUNEAU -- U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens on Tuesday brushed off the call of a conservative Republican state lawmaker that he retire instead of seeking re-election next year.

Inouye raises voice for Stevens

Sen. Ted Stevens got a campaign endorsement and a pat on the back from his old friend Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii during a low-key appearance at a wildlife refuge visitor center in Homer on Thursday.

FBI investigates science contracts awarded Veco

The FBI is investigating the National Science Foundation's award of $170 million in contracts to the oil field services company that oversaw renovations on U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens' home.

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Veco Polar web site

Investigation overview

Less congressional clout could bring lean times

Federal investigations of Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young - along with a questionable land deal by Sen. Lisa Murkowski - may have ended a modern-day gold rush that sent billions of federal dollars to Alaska.

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FBI seized Stevens note

FBI agents earlier this week retrieved a handwritten note by U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens to former U.S. Attorney Wev Shea in which Stevens said he and his wife paid "over $130,000" for the Veco-supervised renovations to their home in Girdwood.

Sen. Stevens' note to Wev Shea

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Friendly crowd welcomes Stevens

U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, on his first trip back to Alaska since FBI agents searched his Girdwood home last week, vigorously defended controversial budget earmarks on Tuesday before a large and welcoming hometown crowd.

Forecast for Young, Stevens clouds up

They are, by their own admissions, feisty and cranky, with tempers that underpin their reputations as old-school -- yet effective -- members of Congress.

Stevens' popularity hits a low, Anchorage voter poll shows

FAIRBANKS -- A poll conducted this month by Ivan Moore Research shows that popular perception of 83-year-old Sen. Ted Stevens is near an all-time low among Anchorage voters.

Stevens seeks Alaska awareness

WASHINGTON -- Everyone from the education secretary to the top U.S. archivist, from the Coast Guard commandant to the head of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be heading to Alaska in August, at the behest of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.

Land deal opens SeaLife Center, Seward rift

When Sen. Ted Stevens diverted federal land-purchase funds to the Alaska SeaLife Center last summer, one of the biggest beneficiaries turned out to be his former legislative aide, Trevor McCabe. McCabe, a Seward native who is now a high-profile fish lobbyist, was looking for a buyer for the Arcade Building, a derelict waterfront structure in downtown Seward that had recently held a pawn shop. McCabe had purchased the Arcade in 2003, at a time when the National Park Service had begun looking for downtown land to build a new $20 million visitor center.