1.   THE Italian agriculture minister, Gianni Fontana, yesterday resigned from the government after being targeted by a corruption probe.

2.   Along the border in Douglas, where four federal inspectors have been convicted of drug smuggling in recent years, another corruption probe is under way.

3.   A corruption probe has ensnared several top officials, while a fiscal crisis blamed on years of mismanagement has left the city teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

4.   A plea agreement calls for his cooperation against Bulger, Flemmi and any former FBI agents being targeted in an ongoing corruption probe.

5.   A source close to the Rampart corruption probe said Hewitt should be behind bars awaiting a jury trial, not sitting at home.

6.   But he was placed in a county jail so that he could help in the ongoing LAPD Rampart Division corruption probe.

7.   Craxi, who has been the subject of more than a dozen other corruption probes, now lives in exile in Tunisia.

8.   DeBartolo relinquished control of the team in December after learning he could be indicted in a gambling corruption probe in Louisiana.

9.   Judge Michael E. Hancock will oversee the jury conducting the corruption probe, and Judge Linda W. Hunter will supervise the panel hearing evidence in the Brown investigation.

10.   Let the Justice Department handle corruption probes.