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HONOLULU (AP) - Renowned San Francisco lawyer George T. Davis, whose storied career took him to the U.S. Supreme Court, the post-World War II Nuremberg trials and the Vietnam War-era My Lai trials, has died. He was 98. Davis died Feb. 4 of heart failure on Hawaii's Big Island, where he had lived since 1980, his wife, Ginger, said Thursday. Davis, who had connections and clients around the world and once played himself in a movie, tried cases that made headlines across four decades, placing him among America's most famous trial attorneys. He ran the Northern California presidential campaigns of...

AL ASAD, Iraq(Jan. 12, 2006) -- Imagine you are walking through a thick Vietnamese jungle in the spring of 1965; the temperature is a sweltering 130 degrees and rising with 100 percent humidity. You are surrounded by a seemingly invisible enemy in their country and they want you dead. The Vietnam War is in its early stages with soldiers and Marines hard at work locating, closing with and destroying a fierce enemy. You are a war correspondent for United Press International with little training in the art of war, but with the 9th Marine Regiment on your first of four...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - John McTernan, an activist lawyer who fought landmark civil rights and labor cases and defended witnesses summoned by the House Un-American Activities Committee, has died. He was 94. McTernan died March 28 in his sleep at his Santa Monica home, his family told the Los Angeles Times. He argued several times before the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of government policies during the Cold War such as forcing workers to take loyalty oaths. One of his most important cases came in 1957. The Supreme Court concluded that defendants have the right to know about...