Probe News

Trenton - Federal agents have arrested Trenton, New Jersey Mayor Tony Mack as part of a corruption probe. He was arrested along with his brother and another man identified as Joseph Giorgianni.

Fukushima - On Tuesday this week, workers at Fukushima inserted a remote control endoscope probe into Reactor Two to assess damage. Tests came back with radiation levels far higher than expected.

Kabul - President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, has ordered a probe into allegations that a 15-year-old-girl was kept in the basement of her in-laws' house and tortured for six months because she refused to join her mother-in-law's business, prostitution.

The stranded Russian space probe Phobos-Grunt has passed the deadline for launching its mission to Mars, and continued attempts to regain control of the spacecraft have failed.

More than 40 years after John Lloyd Heflin disappeared, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation officials confirm they are trying to find out what happened.

Ottawa - Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has asked the Senate's finance committee to study the issue of the price gap between the United States and Canada. Consumers are perplexed by the gap, despite a strong Canadian dollar.

A Japanese space probe sent to orbit Venus missed its target and won’t have another chance to circle the planet for about six years.

Prosecutors on Wednesday launched an investigation into alleged illegal campaign funding for French President Nicolas Sarkozy following claims that France's richest woman Liliane Bettencourt made huge secret donations.

China has been aggressively showing its ambition for space exploration over the past two years. After launching the nation's first lunar probe -- Chang'E-1 -- in 2007, now a giant radio telescope is being built in Shanghai for space data collection.

Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, plans to open a congressional investigation after the shootings that took place last Thursday at Fort Hood.