After a lifetime of public silence, a 78-year-old Los Angeles woman is stepping forward to say she is the daughter of the late Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and a black woman who once worked as the Thurmond family maid who was 16 years old at the time.

says she has incontrovertible evidence, including financial receipts and cashier's checks demonstrating his support for her and personal notes — showing that Mr. Thurmond, once one of the nation's leading segregationists, was her father.

dec13 - As a result of those difficulties the US was primarily dependent on "walk-ins" or people volunteering information, he added. "You listen to people coming in, run them through the polygraph, stick $1,000 (£570) in their pockets and send them out with instructions not to come back until they have some hard information for you."
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Jack Kraeutler, president of flu test kit distributor based Meridian Bioscience Inc. (search), said the company is running about a week behind in filling orders.

In 1962, the study says, 11.5 percent of all civil cases in federal court went to trial. By last year, that number had dropped to 1.8 percent. And even though there are five times as many lawsuits today, the raw number of civil trials has dropped, too.