WHEELING, W.Va., June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Ohio Republican Congressman and radio talk show host Bob Ney has a challenge for ex-Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: "Let's see what you think of waterboarding -- after you've tried it!" Gonzales has maintained publicly that the Bush administration's waterboarding of alleged terror suspects did not constitute torture. "If Alberto Gonzales wants to clear his name by saying he didn't cooperate in torture, then let him try it himself," said Ney, whose 1 PM show on WVLY and WVLY.net is heard in eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and throughout the western panhandle of West Virginia. "When it comes to the worst abuses by the Bush administration, Alberto Gonzales is scurrying under every rock you turn up," said Ney, who served in Congress from 1995 to 2006, when he resigned to face criminal charges in connection with the Jack Abramoff scandal.

By MATT APUZZO By Matt Apuzzo The Associated Press WASHINGTON Jack Abramoff, the once-powerful lobbyist at the heart of a far- reaching political corruption scandal, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday by a judge who said the case had shattered the public's confidence in government.

By Jonathan Riskind and Jack Torry, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Dec. 27--WASHINGTON -- Wade Benjamin is a hard-charging but apolitical businessman who hopes his new manufacturing venture in Malta will employ 200 people in a few years -- a big deal for economically struggling southeastern Ohio.

By LARA JAKES JORDAN WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to toss out a lower court ruling that says the FBI was wrong to raid Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's office, a decision the Bush administration argues will hinder corruption investigations of Congress.

The Bush administration is laying out a new secrecy defense in an effort to end a court battle about the White House visits of now-imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff.