Federal law enforcement officials, Congressional investigators and banking regulators are scouring its accounts in a wide-ranging examination revolving around possible terrorist financing, money laundering or graft.

Since April, so many Federal investigators have scoured Kingman for clues to the Oklahoma City bombing that at times the town has seemed a place for only two kinds of people: suspects and suspected agents.

The Pathfinder was brought to a forensics center in Jamaica, Queens, where investigators were scouring it for DNA evidence and hairs, fibers and fingerprints.

Some 1,500 American investigators are scouring the Iraqi countryside for evidence of weapons of mass destruction that has so far eluded them.

Last night, as investigators scoured her apartment for evidence, friends and relatives described her as a peaceful and kind woman who was active in her church and proud of her children and grandchildren.

Last week, investigators scoured Paris looking for the original, which Mr. Strauss-Kahn said he had misplaced, and supporting documents that may or may not exist.

Farmers and investigators had been scouring the countryside for missing pieces of the engine, which exploded as the plane was passing north of Alta on the afternoon of July 19.

The investigators scoured Columbus, drawing even more people into the case, including many of Precision's employees and the town masseuse.

Mr. Jewell's life, and that of his mother, became captive to a whirlwind of notoriety as investigators scoured his apartment, truck and storage shed and reporters and photographers staked out his home.

An official said the suspect sat on his porch on Sunday as the investigators and volunteers scoured the neighborhood for the missing boy.