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Background: In August 2007, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct, after an undercover officer at a Minneapolis airport restroom said Craig stared at him through a gap and then made foot and hand gestures under the stall walls that signaled an attempt to solicit sex. 12/10/2008 | Minnesota's Court of Appeals has denied Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's appeal in a restroom sex-solicitation case, rejecting every one of his arguments for overturning his guilty plea to disorderly conduct charges.
11/8/2008 | WASHINGTON – Sen. Larry Craig has raised just $4,645 since setting up a legal expense fund this spring to help pay the bills from his efforts to overturn his guilty plea to misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
9/11/2008 | A year to the day after U.S. Sen. Larry Craig started fighting to withdraw his guilty plea in a men's room sex sting, his lawyers were back in Minneapolis on Wednesday pressing their arguments, saying in part that an undercover officer "invited" Craig's actions.
8/1/2008 | Arguments will be heard in September in Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's attempt to withdraw his guilty plea in a Minnesota airport men's room sex sting.
5/29/2008 | With the price of gas and food soaring and the housing market in the tank, most economists caution that this may not be the wisest time to invest 150 bucks in a plastic Larry Craig "bobblefoot" trinket.
4/24/2008 | Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, says he's just as effective a senator now as he was before a June airport restroom sex sting scandal prompted a storm of national criticism, a near-resignation and the loss of his senior committee positions.
3/12/2008 | Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Larry Craig are asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to correct a "manifest injustice" and allow the Idaho Republican to withdraw his guilty plea stemming from a bathroom sex sting. 2/23/2008 | MINNEAPOLIS – Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's conviction in an airport bathroom sex sting should stand, prosecutors told the Minnesota Court of Appeals in a filing Friday. 2/2/2008 | WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Larry Craig continues to spend thousands of dollars on lawyers to clear his name of a misdemeanor conviction, according to reports filed Thursday with the Federal Elections Commission.
1/27/2008 | WASHINGTON – With just a year remaining in Larry Craig's Senate term, there's little indication that the Senate ethics committee is doing much about the Idaho Republican's controversial arrest last summer. 1/12/2008 | BOISE – Most Idahoans say Republican Sen. Larry Craig should go, rather than remain in office until the end of his term, according to a statewide survey released Friday. 1/9/2008 | Idaho Sen. Larry Craig filed a 96-page brief in his Minnesota appeal in a sex sting case Tuesday, arguing that he should be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct charges in part because an undercover officer "invited" the senator's actions in an airport restroom.
12/4/2007 | Sen. Larry Craig said a Boise newspaper's latest report on his sex life was "completely false," and he accused the paper of careless journalism. 12/2/2007 | BOISE – David Phillips. Mike Jones. Greg Ruth. Tom Russell. Four gay men allege they had sex with Sen. Larry Craig's or he made a sexual advance or paid them unusual attention. 12/1/2007 | WASHINGTON – Larry Craig is being investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee, but that hasn't stopped him from attacking the panel's chair over a global warming bill.
11/1/2007 | The American Civil Liberties Union is again going to bat for U.S. Sen. Larry Craig in his bid to withdraw his guilty plea in a restroom sex-solicitation case.
10/27/2007 | Idaho Sen. Larry Craig will make the same arguments in his Minnesota appeal that he made earlier to a district judge in his unsuccessful attempt to take back a guilty plea to disorderly conduct charges in a sex-solicitation sting. 10/25/2007 | BOISE – Idaho Sen. Larry Craig paid defense attorney Billy Martin and PR consultant Judy Smith $37,350 in early July, and has had them representing him since February.
Related: Previous Craig coverage
Blogs: Eye on Boise | Huckleberries 10/24/2007 | WASHINGTON – Sen. Larry Craig used nearly $23,000 from his campaign account to pay lawyers who've been advising him since news broke he was arrested in a sex sting. 10/20/2007 | BOISE – Since meeting a fragile 8-year-old Russian girl with a rare bone disease on a 1993 medical mission to Siberia, Boise doctor Rob Smith has skirmished with federal immigration bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. 10/17/2007 | BOISE – Sen. Larry Craig apologized to Idahoans Tuesday night in his first interview since news broke of his arrest and guilty plea in a bathroom sex-solicitation sting. 10/16/2007 | Idaho Sen. Larry Craig filed a legal appeal Monday that promises to keep his restroom sex-solicitation case in the news for as long as 15 months. 10/15/2007 | BOISE – Sen. Larry Craig says he will file an appeal today over a judge's refusal to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea stemming from his arrest in an airport bathroom sex sting. 10/14/2007 | BOISE – A seemingly humbled Idaho Sen. Larry Craig took a first step toward rehabilitating his image Saturday, showing up with a large cadre of supporters to a ceremony in which he joined "Idaho's Hall of Fame." 10/6/2007 | Idaho Sen. Larry Craig plans to attend an Oct. 13 ceremony in Boise at which he and 11 other Idaho residents will be inducted into the Idaho Hall of Fame. 10/5/2007 | BOISE – Idaho Sen. Larry Craig said he will stay in the Senate and serve out his 15-month term despite Thursday's decision by a Minnesota judge denying Craig's bid to withdraw his guilty plea in a restroom sex-solicitation sting.
9/28/2007 | Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport will put in new men's room stall walls to cut down on sexual activity in the infamous bathroom where Idaho Sen. Larry Craig was arrested. 9/27/2007 | Idaho Sen. Larry Craig now says he's not quitting the U.S. Senate – at least not yet. Craig had pledged to step down Sunday unless he could clear his name by that date, after being caught up in a restroom sting. 9/26/2007 | MINNEAPOLIS – Sen. Larry Craig's lawyers are in search of a rare legal prize – a do-over. And getting it won't be easy. 9/25/2007 | Prosecutors in Minnesota say Idaho Sen. Larry Craig is seeking special treatment by trying to withdraw his guilty plea in a sex solicitation sting and "playing games" with the state's court system by pleading guilty, then trying to withdraw the plea because of political fallout. 9/21/2007 | Prosecutors in Minnesota say the restroom sex solicitation sting that ensnared a Sen. Craig included plenty of other cases where suspects followed "the very same pattern of conduct," then engaged in sex acts on the spot. 9/19/2007 | BOISE – A Minnesota judge ruled Tuesday that the American Civil Liberties Union can make supportive arguments in Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's case, and Craig returned to the floor of the Senate for the first time since the news of his guilty plea in a sex solicitation sting surfaced nearly three weeks ago. 9/17/2007 | MINNEAPOLIS – When you go to Minneapolis, you might put the Mall of America, the statue of Mary Tyler Moore or maybe even the zoo on your list of things to see. 9/15/2007 | Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, has apologized to his Senate colleagues for the "distraction" of his recent notoriety and has sent them a letter outlining his legal strategy. 9/13/2007 | WASHINGTON – Since Congress returned Sept. 4 from a monthlong break, Sen. Larry Craig has missed dozens of votes. 9/11/2007 | Larry Craig, Idaho's senior U.S. senator, contends he was so "panicked" that his arrest in a Minneapolis airport restroom would prompt a Boise newspaper to print a story falsely claiming he was gay that he wrongly pleaded guilty to something he didn't do. 9/11/2007 | BOISE – Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has added another name to his short list of possible replacements for U.S. Sen. Larry Craig: Hayden Lake GOP legislator Mike Jorgenson. 9/8/2007 | Sen. Larry Craig could have grounds for withdrawing his guilty plea to disorderly conduct in an airport restroom, even though he signed statements admitting to the charges. 9/8/2007 | BOISE – Gov. Butch Otter on Friday decided against naming a "placeholder" to replace U.S. Sen. Larry Craig. 9/7/2007 | BOISE – When Idaho Gov. Butch Otter walked into Lawrence Wasden's office and asked the state's attorney general if he'd be interested in filling Larry Craig's seat in the U.S. Senate, Wasden said "yes." 9/7/2007 | Idaho Sen. Larry Craig will set up a defense fund and seek donors willing to help him cover the costs of fighting his conviction in Minnesota and an ethics complaint before a Senate committee, his staff said Thursday. 9/6/2007 | BOISE – Embattled Sen. Larry Craig launched his legal defense against a Senate ethics complaint Wednesday as part of a last-ditch attempt to clear his name and keep his U.S. Senate seat. 9/6/2007 | Welcome to day 112 of the Larry Craig airport toilet-trolling miniseries.I know. You say you're all sick and tired of the Craig coverage by now. 9/5/2007 | BOISE – U.S. Sen. Larry Craig may not resign after all – if he can clear his name by Sept. 30, his office said Tuesday evening. 9/3/2007 | BOISE – Sen. Larry Craig's elder son said he's satisfied his father is telling the truth about what happened in a Minneapolis airport where the senator was arrested by a plainclothes officer investigating complaints of lewd conduct in a men's restroom. 9/2/2007 | So Larry "Mr. Bojangles" Craig will shuffle on off to Buffalo.I'm not surprised, really. You could say the handwriting was on the stall. 9/1/2007 | BOISE – Idaho's senior senator, Larry Craig, will resign today, Republican officials said Friday. 9/1/2007 | BOISE – There's historical precedent in Idaho for a governor appointing a replacement for a U.S. senator who resigns – and doing it quickly.
8/31/2007 | BOISE – Sen. Larry Craig told his arresting officer "you solicited me" and complained of entrapment while denying he made a sexual advance in an airport men's room, according to an audiotape recording of the senator's interview by airport police. 8/31/2007 | She didn't say a word and she wore big sunglasses, but Suzanne Craig was standing by her man – conservative Republican Sen. Larry Craig, who at that moment was denying he had propositioned a man in the stall. 8/31/2007 | BOISE – Idaho stands to lose influence and millions of federal dollars now that the state's senior U.S. senator has lost committee leadership positions and faces increasing pressure to resign after his arrest in a Minnesota airport restroom. 8/30/2007 | Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's support among his GOP colleagues around the country began eroding Wednesday as he was asked to give up leadership posts on key Senate committees. 8/30/2007 | You've got to hand it to U.S. Sen. Larry Craig. The Idaho Republican has established his legacy. He will forever be known as the political leader who gave new meaning to the term "layover." 8/30/2007 | NEW YORK - Sen. Larry Craig's "I'm not gay" declaration met with disdain Wednesday from gay activists, many of whom knew for nearly a year of allegations that the conservative Idaho Republican solicited sex. 8/30/2007 | Sen. Larry Craig faces few easy choices if he seeks to undo his guilty plea to disorderly conduct after an encounter with an undercover policeman at a Minneapolis airport men's room, several legal experts say. 8/29/2007 | BOISE – Idaho Sen. Larry Craig insisted Tuesday that he's done nothing wrong despite pleading guilty to a misdemeanor in a restroom sex-solicitation scandal, but growing national attention to the case suggests Craig's political career – which includes a long record of opposing gay-rights legislation – could be irreparably damaged. 8/29/2007 | Disorderly conduct by a U.S. senator might also be improper conduct under the Senate's code of ethics, a Washington, D.C., group said Tuesday. 8/28/2007 | U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's guilty plea to disorderly conduct, after an encounter with an undercover detective in an airport restroom, stunned members of both political parties Monday and left open the question of whether Idaho's senior congressional member will seek re-election next year.
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