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<p>NOT ENTIRELY COMPOSED WHEN DEPOSED. That would be Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ed Rendell, who was recently deposed in a federal lawsuit in which he is a defendant.</p> <p>Rendell appeared at times angry, frustrated and incredulous over some of the questions asked during the June 14 deposition in Philadelphia. More than once, he threatened to walk out of the proceedings.</p>

This is the story of how the FBI framed four innocent men for murder, destroyed families, and tried to cover it up. It’s also the story of the convergence of John Durham and Robert Mueller: how Durham uncovered the FBI’s crimes and how Robert Mueller’s FBI disputed the innocence of the men the FBI framed. The FBI knocked and Mike Albano opened the door. It was 1983. As a member of the Massachusetts State Parole Board, Albano thought he had been doing his job when he looked into voting to commute the sentence of Peter Limone, who along with Joseph...

John P. Morris, the fiery union leader who came here from the coalfields of northern Pennsylvania 56 years ago and built with his Teamsters Local 115 in Northeast Philadelphia what became a labor powerhouse, died last night. Morris, who was 76, had been ill with heart trouble in recent months. But he was still pressing ahead with a legal fight against national Teamsters leaders who ousted him from Local 115 in late 1999 amid bitter political feuding and misconduct allegations that Morris said were false. "It broke his heart," said his daughter, Nancy Morris, who had worked alongside her father...