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Tomorrow is the day counties report their final canvasses to the Secretary of State’s office, and barring a complete meltdown in one or more counties’ numbers, Mike Villines should win the Republican insurance commissioner nomination by 13,000 votes or so.

In a bit of historical air-brushing, two Pennsylvania judges have ordered two newspapers to expunge five defendants’ name from their archives. No, really.

I wonder if Apple has an app for defending iPhone lawsuits? Gizmodo reports there are at least five class-action suits filed over the new devices, three of them in California.

Sam Zell, whose success in Chicago real estate is inversely related to his reign over the Tribune media company (owner of the Los Angeles Times), won a reprieve in the scheduling of his deposition stemming from Tribune’s bankruptcy case.

Some 3,500 nurses who have been disciplined in other states have been licensed to nurse in California, including several hundred who have lost their licenses elsewhere.

The University of Michigan Medical School has decided that it will no longer accept cash from drug companies to underwrite courses designed to keep doctors’ medical licenses current.

A new report by Fair Warning charges that federal protections against job-site whistle-blowers have failed because the U.S. Solicitor’s office often fails to defend whistle-blowers fired for alerting OSHA to safety problems.