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COLUMBIA — A former South Carolina trooper caught on video kicking a suspect in the head after a highway chase pleaded guilty Monday to violating the man's civil rights, according to federal court documents.

John B. Sawyer faces up to 10 years in prison. A few months earlier, a jury acquitted another trooper of the same charge in a different incident also captured on video.

The videos were among several the South Carolina Department of Public Safety released last year showing troopers acting aggressively. The videos were made public in response to media requests.

Sawyer was indicted in July after the state released a May 2006 video that showed him kicking Sergio Caridi in the head several times.

NEW YORK — A contractor was charged with manslaughter Monday, accused of using worn, fraying safety straps that broke apart and caused a crane to crash down on a Manhattan neighborhood. It killed seven people in one of the city's worst construction accidents in decades.

William Rapetti and his company, Rapetti Rigging Services Inc., were indicted on seven counts of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the March 15 collapse, in which a 19-story tower crane destroyed a town house as it smashed into a quiet neighborhood a few blocks from the United Nations.

The dead included six of the construction workers on the crane and a Florida woman staying in the town house for the St. Patrick's Day weekend.

WHITE PLAINS — A teenager who shot and killed a New York security guard who confronted egg-throwing youths has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.

A judge imposed the second-degree murder sentence Monday on 19-year-old Nyanda Charley of Mount Vernon.

Charley had admitted to shooting 52-year-old Neville Webb on Halloween in 2007. The guard had tried to chase off a group of youths throwing eggs near the apartment complex where he worked.

Webb worked as a prison guard in Jamaica for 25 years before coming to the United States in 2005.

GIBSON — Authorities in a dozen boats searched through wreckage from a helicopter crash in a southern Louisiana marsh Monday, turning up evidence that could help investigators figure out why the aircraft bound for an offshore oil platform went down and killed eight people.

The helicopter, operated by PHI Inc., crashed Sunday afternoon shortly after taking off, said Richard Rovinelli, a company spokesman. Two pilots and seven passengers were aboard when the helicopter went down in rural Terrebonne Parish, about 100 miles southwest of New Orleans. The passengers worked for two Shell Oil Co. contractors and the company said they were on their way to a Gulf of Mexico platform.

Ted Lopatkiewicz, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, said the helicopter is believed to have crashed about seven minutes after it took off .

WILKES-BARRE — A man accused of squatting in the attic of a Pennsylvania family's home over Christmas and helping himself to their belongings is sorry for his actions, his lawyer said Monday.

Police say 21-year-old Stanley Carter stole food, clothing, cash and Christmas presents while living in the attic of Stacy Ferrance's home outside Wilkes-Barre.

Carter waived his right to a preliminary hearing Monday. His attorney, public defender Basil Russin, said Carter, of Trumann, Ark., is "very sorry and upset it happened. He was very peaceful up there and kept to himself."

MADISON — A 13-hour hostage standoff at a Georgia motel ended peacefully Monday when a former South Carolina police officer and a teenage girl surrendered, freeing his estranged wife and infant son.

FBI spokesman Steve Lazarus said 25-year-old David Dietz surrendered about 9:15 a.m. at the Red Roof Inn off Interstate 20 about 60 miles east of Atlanta. Jamie Lynn Burgess, 17, was also taken into custody at the time.

The two had been holed up in a second floor room with the infant, Allim David Dietz, and Dietz's estranged wife, 29-year-old Eva Arce-Perez. Two shots were fired at law enforcement agents from the room Sunday night.