AP - Former employees of a shuttered California auto plant sued the factory and Toyota Motor Corp. on Wednesday, claiming they were denied fair severance packages because injuries kept them off the job in the months leading to the facility's closure.
AP - Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded poverty Tuesday and was granted a lawyer at public expense to defend him against charges that he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars collected for a charity on himself and his family.
AP - The prosecutor in a French money laundering case against former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega asked Wednesday that he be sentenced to 10 years in prison, but his defense lawyers countered that the charges were part of a political plot against him.
AP - Relishing the chance to defend himself before a judge, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega blamed a "conspiracy" against him for French money-laundering charges that landed him in a Paris court after 20 years in a U.S. jail.
Reuters - Former Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man pleaded guilty on Monday to evading state taxes over a four-year period, costing the music star more than $100,000 in fines and fees.
AP - Former President Bill Clinton announced a plan Thursday to help Haiti recover from the Jan. 12 earthquake with loans to small and medium-size businesses backed by aid from the world's richest man.

