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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has announced a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota that Attorney General Eric Holder says is the largest financial penalty of its kind ever imposed on an auto company. It also filed a criminal charge alleging the automaker defrauded consumers by issuing misleading statements about safety issues in Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Under a deferred prosecution agreement, an independent monitor will review policies, practices and procedures at the company.
NEW YORK (AP) — Al-Qaida's spokesman after the Sept. 11 attacks has taken the witness stand on his own behalf at his New York trial on charges that he conspired to kill Americans and aid al-Qaida. Spectators quickly filled the courtroom after a defense attorney made the surprise announcement this morning that his client, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (SOO'-lay-mahn AH'-boo GAYTH'), would testify.
PARIS (AP) — France's highest court has upheld a prison sentence for a man convicted of carrying out one of the biggest trading frauds in history. The court upheld Jerome Kerviel's (zheh-ROHM' kehrv-YEHLZ') three-year sentence but threw out the $7 billion in civil damages he'd been ordered to pay back.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The holders of two lucky tickets will split a $400 million Mega Millions jackpot. Lottery officials say one winning ticket was sold at a Sunoco convenience store in Merritt Island on Florida's Space Coast. The other was sold at Lady Liquor in La Plata (PLAY'-tuh), Maryland, south of Washington. Both retailers receive $100,000 commissions for selling the winning tickets.
NEW YORK (AP) — IBM is teaming up with the New York Genome Center to help fight brain cancer. The company says its Watson cloud computing system will be used in partnership with a New York-based genetic research center mainly to help sequence DNA for the treatment of the most common type of brain cancer in U.S. adults.
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