1.   Meanwhile, on the East Coast a widening probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission hints at broader price-rigging.

2.   Shareholders have been selling stock amid fears that a widening federal probe of the hospital and home-care chain would blunt its expansion.

3.   Wolf was not charged with wrongdoing in a widening federal probe that eventually netted about a dozen suspects.

4.   A fourth guilty plea was entered Friday in a widening federal probe of City Hall corruption that has already brought down three close associates of Mayor Joseph P. Ganim.

5.   A man who police say worked for the CIA for years was arrested Saturday in a widening probe of suspected international arms trafficking and money laundering.

6.   But traders said the yen remains vulnerable due to uncertainty over the impact of a widening probe into corruption by top Japanese Finance Ministry officials.

7.   French authorities investigating a wave of terrorist bombings jailed four suspected Islamic extremists Friday in a widening probe of Algerian radicals.

8.   In a widening anti-corruption probe, two prominent French businessmen were placed under formal investigation Friday for alleged influence peddling.

9.   It is part of a widening probe into ties between political leaders and underworld figures.

10.   Two prominent French businessmen were placed under formal investigation Friday for alleged influence peddling in a widening anti-corruption probe.