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BOSTON — The former owners of a New Bedford leather goods factory raided last year by immigration agents will pay $850,000 to workers — including illegal immigrants — to settle a lawsuit claiming the company violated wage laws, attorneys said Tuesday.

Michael Bianco Inc. will pay more than $600,000 to 764 former employees for unpaid wages and overtime to settle the lawsuit filed in May 2007. The remaining money will go for such things as legal fees and contributions to community groups that work with immigrants.

"This agreement should send a message to other companies that they have to follow labor laws regardless of workers' immigration status," said Audrey Richardson, an attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services, which filed the lawsuit.

Some of the illegal immigrants arrested in the raid who will benefit from the settlement have returned to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Greater Boston Legal Services is trying to locate former workers who would receive the money.

SEATTLE — A man whose groin was disfigured by a flesh-eating bacteria infection in prison has accepted a $300,000 settlement from the Washington Department of Corrections.

Charlie Manning told The Seattle Times on Monday that he settled because he wants the ordeal to be over. The prison department said in a statement it settled to save the cost of litigation.

The 61-year-old man became ill in 2004 while serving time for threatening a neighbor. His illness was initially diagnosed as a reaction to cold medicine.

By the time he was taken to a hospital, Manning had an internal abscess that required doctors to remove several pounds of flesh from his pelvic region.

Surgeons made a replacement penis with skin from his thigh.

DALLAS — The wife of Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday that she'll create a refuge for wild horses, after the federal agency that manages the animals said it may have to kill some to control the herds and protect the Western range.

About 33,000 wild horses and burros roam the open range in 10 Western states. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management wants that population to be about 27,000, in order to protect the herd, the range and other foraging animals.

Those horses that are too old or are unadoptable by the public are sent to long-term holding facilities. The BLM now has about the same number of the animals in holding facilities as on the range.

The agency has said the costs of keeping animals in the holding facilities has caused officials to consider euthanasia as a last-resort.

Madeleine Pickens told The Associated Press that she has proposed purchasing around 1 million acres to be a refuge for the horses now in holding facilities and that the BLM has agreed to give her the horses once she has the land.

McALLEN — Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor.

The indictment returned Monday has not yet been signed by the presiding judge, and no action can be taken until that happens.

The seven indictments made public in Willacy County on Tuesday included one naming state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. and some targeting public officials connected to District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra's own legal battles.

Cheney is charged with engaging in an organized criminal activity related to the vice president's investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds financial interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and "at least misdemeanor assaults" on detainees because of his link to the prison companies.

The indictment accuses Gonzales of using his position while in office to stop an investigation in 2006 into abuses at one of the privately run prisons.

LAS VEGAS — Marion "Suge" Knight is facing criminal charges in Las Vegas, stemming from an incident in which police found the hip-hop mogul allegedly beating his girlfriend just off a busy thoroughfare.

Knight is charged with two counts of felony drug possession and one count of misdemeanor battery, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Las Vegas Justice Court.

The complaint filed by the Clark County district attorney's office accuses Knight of striking a woman identified as Melissa Isaac. Police say they arrested Knight in August after they saw the founder of bankrupt Death Row Records beating the woman while brandishing a knife in a parking lot near the Las Vegas Strip.

Authorities said the woman wasn't stabbed, but was treated at a hospital for injuries.

LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a new 30-day age limit for children who can be legally abandoned under the state's "safe-haven" law.

The restriction is designed to stop parents and guardians from using the law to drop off older children at Nebraska hospitals.

The state's haven law is the only one in the country without an age limit and has led to the drop-off of 34 children — none of them infants — since July. Gov. Dave Heineman has said he would support an age limit anywhere from 3 to 30 days.

Supporters say the age limit would reflect the original intent of the law — to prevent newborns from being abandoned in trash bins or worse.

The drop-offs of older children and teens under the law prompted many legislators to argue that services for troubled youths are inadequate.

EAST ST. LOUIS — A southern Illinois farmer's wife pleaded guilty Tuesday to plotting federal bankruptcy fraud and agreed to cooperate with authorities in a case connected to the unsolved slayings of a potential witness and his wife.

Margaret Diekemper, 64, pleaded guilty to a charge that she conspired with her husband to commit bankruptcy fraud. In return, prosecutors promised to drop 22 other felony counts during sentencing Feb. 9. The conspiracy count carries a possible five years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines.

The plea agreement does not specifically say that Diekemper has agreed to testify against her husband.

Joseph Diekemper is scheduled to go on trial in January on charges that he defrauded the couple's creditors and others by lying about — and often hiding — millions of dollars in real estate and farm equipment.

Authorities also have been investigating the deaths of two people found shot to death last year on property where authorities say Joseph Diekemper stashed a tractor behind a false wall in an outbuilding.

The unsolved April 2007 killings of George and Linda Weedon came just a couple of days after George Weedon approached the FBI about the tractor and told an investigator he worried Joseph Diekemper would burn down his house if he ever found out, according to an FBI memo filed in the fraud case.

When the Weedons' bodies were found, their rental home was ablaze.