Stevens convicted, won't quit Senate race

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Ted Stevens, a pillar of the Senate for 40 years and the face of Alaska politics almost since statehood, was convicted of a seven-felony string of corruption charges Monday -- found guilty of accepting home renovations and fancy trimmings from an oil executive and then lying about it.

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