Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term. ...more

November 18, 2008

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called her critics cowards and jerks Friday for deriding her anonymously and insisted she never asked for the expensive wardrobe purchased for her use on the presidential campaign. ...more

November 7, 2008

Jurors were offered conflicting views of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens during a four-week corruption trial: a cantankerous but credible senator who didn't know he was being lavished with free gifts, or a sour-faced, scheming one who thought he knew how to quietly get undisclosed freebies. ...more

October 21, 2008

Some people worry, when they've been away from home, that they might return to find something missing. ...more

October 18, 2008

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens denied scheming to hide $250,000 in home improvements and other gifts from a wealthy businessman, taking the stand Thursday in his own defense at a corruption trial blocks from the U.S. Capitol. ...more

October 17, 2008

In October 2006, a longtime loyalist of Sen. Ted Stevens called him with a big problem: The FBI, he said, was breathing down his neck about a makeover of the senator's mountain cabin. ...more

October 7, 2008

A federal judge scolded prosecutors Monday for sending a potentially important witness in the trial of Sen. Ted Stevens back to Alaska, a move that defense lawyers asserted was intended to hide exculpatory evidence. ...more

September 30, 2008

While reviewing expense reports for a 2000 construction project, a bookkeeper for Alaska oil services giant VECO Corp. asked for an explanation. Who was this work for, she asked? Why was it performed? ...more

September 27, 2008

The telephone conversation between the two businessmen concerned an old friend, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and the subject was money - or at least Stevens' feeling about it. ...more

September 23, 2008

Sen. John McCain is running a television ad attacking the spending record of prominent Democrats. This is certainly a remarkable offering from a man who treats Ronald Reagan as a saint. Reagan ran up the largest deficits in history, surpassed only by the Bushes, without a word of apology. ...more

September 12, 2008