The Locust Fork Journal Proving you can cover the world from anywhere, online... Quick Links: Top News | Telescope | Region | Missed It | Lighter Note || Contact Us | Advertise | Tools | Alabama News Enter your search terms Submit search form   The Web The Fork LFJ Topping the News US Attorneys Scandal Enters Criminal Prosecution Phase Riley Breaks Silence, Spins Siegelman Prosecution Story Sources in Washington say the year-long probe of the Bush Administration's decision to fire a still-undetermined number of U.S. Attorneys for political and improper reasons is "substantially completed" and that it remains the subject of wrangling in a fairly transparent effort to slow down its release. Pentagon Sought Abusive Interrogations Judge Rules White House May Keep E-Mail Private Gore Endorses Obama, Promises to Help Al Gore announced his endorsement of Barack Obama Monday and promised to help the Democrat achieve what eluded him - the presidency. Midwest Floods Spur Record Corn Prices Americans Use Net to Go Beyond Sound Bites Americans dissatisfied with political sound bites are turning to the Internet for a more complete picture, a new study finds. Bonnaroo: Calling for Change If there are any Republicans performing at Bonnaroo, they're keeping quiet about it. In the meantime, performers that sing about politics, like Pearl Jam are putting out election-year messages, and bands that generally don't are subtly or unsubtly stumping for Barack Obama. Tiger Woods Wins US Open on 19th Hole Regional Political Roundup Scrushy in Court for HealthSouth Testimony Glynn Wilson To Give Talk on Siegelman Case Scrushy Returned to Alabama to Testify Riley Says Siegelman Case Wasn't Political Riley Denies Involvement in Siegelman Prosecution Select Regional News Sports Writer Steve Dukes Dies Suddenly Flood Victims Worry: What's in the Water? New Orleans at Risk from Category 2 Hurricane Editorials, Columns, Blogs of Note Human Beings Love A Good Myth A Case of Politics in Alabama Justice The Log in Alice Martin's Eye Rich: Women and McCain Did Riley Step in 'It' With Siegelman Comments? Would Karl Rove Plead the Fifth? Fox News Tries to Ambush Bill Moyers, Again... More Jail Time for Siegelman Unlikely Siegelman Prosecution Continues to Unravel Democracy and the Web In Case You Missed It Politics, Public Opinion Obama Sees Win Without Ohio, Florida House GOP Falls Short on Campaign Cash Obama, McCain Squabble Over Faceoffs House Passes Jobless Benefits Extension House Panel Subpoenas Karl Rove in Justice Inquiry War, Intel, National Security Bush Doesn't Rule Out Military Strike in Iran Old Spy Rules Loom as Deadline Nears Adviser Says McCain Backs Bush Wiretaps BBC Uncovers Lost Iraq Billions Cops and Court A High Court Divided High Court Rebukes Bush on Detention Rights Suit Threatens Online Communication Business, Labor, Technology Kucinich Website Crippled Suspiciously Senate GOP Blocks Big Oil Windfall Taxes Major ISPs to Block Child Porn Science, Health, Environment Florida, Mexico Suspects in Tomato Outbreak Shuttle Returns After 14-Day Mission Mars Lander Probes First Microscope Sample Arts, Media, Entertainment NBC's Tim Russert Dies of Apparent Heart Attack Rather Slams Corporate Media at Conference Sports, Travel, Outdoors Griffey Hits Homer No. 600 Nadal Routs Federer for 4th French Open Title Telescope The Rich and the Rest of Us Over the past three decades, market-worshiping politicians and their corporate backers have engineered the most colossal redistribution of wealth in modern world history, a redistribution from the bottom up, from working people to a tiny global elite. This Land Is Their Land, The Rich That Is... Name Our Epoch McClellan to Testify Before House in CIA Leak Case McClellan Says Bush Should Have Fired Karl Rove McClellan Rocks White House With Book Revelations Surprise, Surprise: Bush Lied Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled US on Iraq Spying, Telecom Immunity Debate Still Unresolved Tentative Accord on Spy Bill, Telecom Immunity? Bush Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in US Phone Companies Spend to Get Off the Spying Hook National Dragnet Is a Click Away Political Justice Archive The Nation: A Whistleblower's Tale Justice Off the Tracks in Alabama Siegelman-Scrushy Travails Our focus of late has been on covering the legal travails of Don Siegelman and Richard Scrushy, especially as the investigation now goes to Washington. To check out all our coverage, hit this archive. On A Lighter Note Reserve this ad spot for only $99 a week, $299 a month, $999 for three months or $2,999 a year. 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