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Government seeks Vicksburg contract documents

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:21:47 -0400

VICKSBURG, Mississippi - Vicksburg City Clerk Walter Osborne has been served with a federal grand jury subpoena for documents related to the City Hall Annex roofing project.

Bill would protect Calif. reporters' phone records

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:01:09 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - State agencies would be required to give journalists five days' notice before they issue subpoenas to a third-party company for telephone records under legislation announced Thursday by a state senator.

Ford's attorney seeks dismissal of ethics charges

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:52:42 -0400

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - Sen. Robert Ford's attorney said Wednesday that ethics allegations against the Charleston Democrat should be thrown out because he didn't realize he was under investigation.

Benghazi review leader OKs meeting with committee

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:30:46 -0400

WASHINGTON - A House committee chairman has withdrawn a subpoena to compel a retired diplomat to answer questions in private about an independent investigation of last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya.

Policy, discretion guide media sources probes

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:35:59 -0400

WASHINGTON - It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had improperly obtained reporters' telephone records four years earlier.

Subpoena of AP records revives media shield bill

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:07:34 -0400

WASHINGTON - The controversy over the government's secret subpoena of Associated Press telephone records has revived legislation that protect journalists from having to reveal their sources to federal investigators - and the White House is endorsing the idea.

Holder defends subpoenas for AP telephone records

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:29:02 -0400

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Wednesday that a serious national security leak required the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press as he stood by an investigation in which he insisted he had no involvement.

Holder says he played no role in AP phone subpoena

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:12:26 -0400

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday defended the Justice Department's secret examination of Associated Press phone records though he declared he had played no role in it, saying it was justified as part of an investigation into a grave national security leak.

FBI subpoena's Lakewood school board

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:13:38 -0400

LAKEWOOD, New Jersey - The FBI has subpoenaed the Lakewood school board for contracts, bills and invoices dating to 2008.

NY court upholds ethics commission subpoena power

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:43:22 -0400

ALBANY, New York - A midlevel New York court says state ethics officials can subpoena testimony from the ex-chief of the State University of New York Research Foundation accused of giving a no-show job to the daughter of a powerful legislator.

Spanish court drops subpoena of king's daughter

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:32:19 -0400

MADRID - A Spanish court has withdrawn a subpoena for King Juan Carlos' daughter as a suspect in a corruption case following an appeal by prosecutors.

Warrants, subpoenas issued in death of W. Pa. doc

Fri, 03 May 2013 14:26:25 -0400

PITTSBURGH - Authorities have said they're considering both homicide and suicide as possibilities in the sudden death last month of a western Pennsylvania physician who was found to have high levels of cyanide poison in her system.

Little discipline for foreclosure lawyers

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:45:31 -0400

ORLANDO, Florida - Since Florida's mortgage crisis began about six years ago, banks have agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle allegations that they wrongfully foreclosed on thousands of homeowners. Prosecutors have charged loan servicers with filing fraudulent documents on behalf of banks.

Subpoena in Sandy probe served on Suffolk

Thu, 02 May 2013 06:07:04 -0400

RIVERHEAD, New York - Suffolk County has been served with a subpoena as part of a probe into how millions of dollars of Sandy-related public works contracts were awarded on Long Island.

Philly DA assembles team to investigate corruption

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:26:24 -0400

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams has quietly assembled an elite team of veteran prosecutors to investigate public corruption.

Jackson Hole newspaper fights reporter's subpoena

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:30:28 -0400

CHEYENNE, Wyoming - A Wyoming newspaper is fighting a subpoena from federal prosecutors who want a reporter to testify about her interview of a man accused of bank robbery.