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The Senate Select Committee on Ethics has closed its inquiry into Roland Burris, clearing the Illinois lawmaker of any legal wrongdoing.

A Democratic official says Roland Burris will not run for a full Senate term in 2010.

Even in a Senate club famous for how it ostracizes the unwanted, the shunning of Democratic Sen. Roland Burris is unprecedented.

A federal judge in Chicago said today that the Senate ethics committee can review tapes of secretly recorded conversations between Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) and the brother of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich (D), who was removed from office earlier this year amid a corruption investigation.

A published report indicates the prosecutor investigating Roland Burris' testimony before an Illinois House impeachment panel is asking federal authorities for any recordings involving the senator.

The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting in Friday's editions that federal prosecutors are considering the request from Sangamon County State's Attorney John Schmidt.

Gov. Pat Quinn is reviewing how the son of embattled Sen. Roland Burris got a state job as a housing-agency lawyer under ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration, just weeks after he landed in tax and foreclosure trouble.

Federal authorities have interviewed U.S. Senator Roland Burris in a probe into whether former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich tried to sell the Senate seat Burris now occupies, the Chicago Tribune, reported on Sunday.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn Roland Burris should resign from the U.S. Senate for the good of the state and a new senator should be chosen by special election to fill the seat once held by Barack Obama.

Unlike January, when several politicians stood to defend him, now Ill. senator seems largely alone.

Despite calls, Ill. senator says he won't resign amid probe of contacts with Blagojevich associates.