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The mayor and her teenage daughter have been found shot to death at their home, city officials said Wednesday July 14, 2010. Police discovered the bodies of Coppell Mayor Jayne Peters, 55, and Corrine Peters, 19, Tuesday evening, community information officer Sharon Logan said. Police found no signs of forced entry, Logan said.

In the year and a half since his arrest, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has lost his job and become a political pariah and a comic punch line.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked a federal judge on Thursday to issue a subpoena for President Barack Obama to testify as a witness at his corruption trial....

Thailand’s Supreme Court ruled that Thaksin Shinawatra had abused his power to benefit companies he owned.

Rep. Charles Rangel, the influential chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, was publicly admonished by the House ethics panel Thursday for taking trips to the Caribbean that were paid for by private corporations.

Hundreds of Haitian earthquake survivors protested in a suburb of the wrecked capital on Sunday, accusing a district mayor of corruption and hoarding food aid provided by relief groups, witnesses said.

State Rep. Terri Hodge, D-Dallas, pleaded guilty early this morning to lying on her tax returns in connection with the FBI's Dallas City Hall public corruption investigation, an act that ends her 14-year political career.

Chinese officials are being told to dump their mistresses, avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances as part of the Communist party's efforts to clamp down on the corruption that is threatening its rule and sullying its reputation.

Former Representative William J. Jefferson, a New Orleans Democrat, was sentenced for using his office to try to enrich himself and his relatives.

Weary Afghans, who have endured years of hardships imposed by a corrupt government, expressed little hope that President Hamid Karzai's next term will turn their lives around.