41.   The company faces a federal criminal probe over whether it withheld and altered evidence in a lawsuit involving its Benlate DF fungicide, the Wall Street Journal reported.

42.   The federal probe of Charter hospitals in Boston and Nashua, N.H., came as a result of a routine review, Charter said.

43.   The federal probe also looked at evidence that Shuster and Eppard may have used tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds for personal use.

44.   The federal probe began last spring after a former National Medical employee filed a lawsuit involving the dialysis centers, Dorfman said.

45.   The federal probe is the third there in the past five months.

46.   The federal probe was prompted by Superintendent Arlene Ackerman, who found what she considered troubling and possibly illegal practices in the facilities division.

47.   The Justice Department said antitrust concerns were heightened in part because of a long-running federal probe of price-fixing in school milk sales around the country.

48.   The lawsuit also alleges that Columbia executives were selling stock when they knew of the federal probe but had not disclosed it to shareholders.

49.   The judge sentenced W. Roger Barker after considering his cooperation in a federal probe into kickbacks at the department store chain.

50.   There were marches, demonstrations and petitions demanding a federal probe.