A lawyer for Gov. Sarah Palin is taking another stab at derailing the Legislature's ethics investigation into the firing of her former public safety commissioner, accusing the retired prosecutor who is conducting it of acting unethically himself. In two letters released Wednesday, Thomas Van Flein called the ...

Sarah Palin was forced to expend precious time and political capital over the weekend fighting to contain the fallout from the so-called Troopergate affair, following an official investigation in Alaska that reprimanded her for abusing her office as governor in pursuit of a family feud. Palin attempted to neutralise the findings into her official conduct by labelling the inquiry a ...

This time, there are no hanging chads. Yet the Republicans' drive to derail an abuse of power investigation against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, reflects the same determination and many of the same methods employed in shutting down the 2000 presidential recount in ...

The abuse of power investigation against Sarah Palin, Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, took a potentially ominous turn for her party on Friday when state lawmakers voted to subpoena her husband. Republican efforts to delay the probe until after the Nov. 4 election were thwarted ...