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W. E. B. Griffin, who depicted the swashbuckling lives of soldiers, spies and cops in almost 60 novels, dozens of which became best sellers, died on Feb. 12 at his home in Daphne, Ala. He was 89. The cause was colorectal cancer, said his son William E. Butterworth IV, who was also his writing partner. Mr. Griffin estimated that he had published more than 150 books, many of which appeared on the best-seller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and other publications. His output included fiction for young adults and children’s books. According to his website, there are...

Receive FREE updates by email: New Developments In The Salvati Case By Notra Trulock November 12, 2003 Earlier this year, Accuracy in Media reported on the case of Joseph Salvati, who spent nearly thirty years in prison for a crime that he did not commit. False, uncorroborated testimony by an FBI informant convicted Salvati in 1968 of murder. Salvati was finally freed in 1997 after Boston WBZ-TV reporter Dan Rea uncovered old police records that exonerated him. Salvati was framed by an informant recruited by two FBI agents working out of the Boston office, Paul Rico and Dennis Condon....

November 7 -- Some election results.  The Senate results, as will be surmised, were a spectacular rout for organized trial lawyer interests, which had spent heavily to defend Democratic control of the upper chamber.  (Another key litigation lobby ally, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) (Jul. 7, 2000) did not face serious challenge and won easy re-election.)  Of the three extremely wealthy trial attorneys who ran for U.S. House seats in West Virginia and Florida (Oct. 11-13), all lost by margins of 60-40 or worse (Humphreys, Jacobs, Hogan).  And all of the nationally publicized state supreme court races seem to have been...