31.   Paper companies are the target of a federal probe of alleged collusion in newsprint pricing, the Justice Department said.

32.   Patrick also said his agency is looking at complaints against other Southland law enforcement agencies in addition to its federal probe of the LAPD and Fuhrman.

33.   Prosecutors are investigating whether Michael Milken obstructed justice during a federal probe of his recent business dealings.

34.   Robinson acknowledged that three times in the last two years he had warned Donald L. Maxwell that he was the target of a federal probe.

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

36.   She said she welcomed the federal probe.

37.   She noted the firm also has agreed to fully cooperate with an ongoing federal probe.

38.   The ACLU, which was silent throughout the Wenatchee trials, Wednesday added its name to the call for a federal probe.

39.   The action was the latest development in the ongoing federal probe of Massachusetts lobbyists and legislators.

40.   The charges come, however, as the tobacco industry is under mounting pressure from federal criminal probes and high-stakes civil lawsuits.