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The Senate Select Committee on Ethics has closed its inquiry into Roland Burris, clearing the Illinois lawmaker of any legal wrongdoing.

A Democratic official says Roland Burris will not run for a full Senate term in 2010.

Even in a Senate club famous for how it ostracizes the unwanted, the shunning of Democratic Sen. Roland Burris is unprecedented.

Federal authorities have interviewed U.S. Senator Roland Burris in a probe into whether former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich tried to sell the Senate seat Burris now occupies, the Chicago Tribune, reported on Sunday.

Unlike January, when several politicians stood to defend him, now Ill. senator seems largely alone.

Despite calls, Ill. senator says he won't resign amid probe of contacts with Blagojevich associates.

The largest newspaper in Illinois on Tuesday called for U.S. Sen. Roland Burris to resign, a day after Burris detailed several conversations with impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich's brother he had failed to mention under oath.

Illinois Sen. Roland Burris said Monday that his sworn testimony regarding his contacts with then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich was consistent with what he later said in an affidavit.

The Illinois Senate designee is getting a warmer reception than he received last week when he was turned out of the Senate.