Noeleen Walder

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, the winningest coach in major college football history who was fired in November over a child sexual abuse scandal involving an assistant that rocked America, died on Sunday of lung cancer. He was 85.

(Reuters) - Connecticut's attorney general announced Friday that he had reached a settlement with the three major credit-rating agencies over allegations that they underrated public bonds compared with their corporate counterparts.

(Reuters) - A group representing operators of automated teller machines filed a lawsuit against Visa <V.N> and MasterCard <MA.N> alleging that the credit and debit card issuers violated antitrust laws by fixing the price of ATM access fees.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York attorney was arrested in Canada on Tuesday on charges that he ran an "immigration fraud mill" that filed tens of thousands of bogus U.S. immigration applications, U.S. prosecutors said.

(Reuters) - A Nevada jury ordered a Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd unit and two other healthcare companies to pay $162.5 million in punitive damages to a group of colonoscopy patients who claimed they contracted Hepatitis C from vials of the sedative Propofol, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - On the afternoon of May 14, moments after authorities pulled Dominique Strauss-Kahn off an Air France flight on suspicion that he had tried to rape a hotel maid, the former International Monetary Fund chief pulled rank.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Post is asking a court to throw out part of the libel lawsuit brought by the woman who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, saying its reports she was a prostitute fell short of extreme and outrageous conduct.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a blow to homeless people in New York, a judge on Tuesday ruled that the city can terminate a program that offered rent subsidies to help people transition from emergency shelters.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Those looking to draw lessons from the roller-coaster prosecution of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, which formally ended on Tuesday, may not get much satisfaction from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York judge dropped all criminal sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday, leaving him free to return to France and rebuild a shattered career.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York judge dropped all criminal sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday, leaving him free to return to France and rebuild a shattered career.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has ruled that a Jewish inmate in a New York jail does not have a constitutionally protected right to matzoh and grape juice.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has ruled that a Jewish inmate does not have a constitutionally protected right to matzoh and grape juice.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn judge has tossed out a defamation lawsuit against New York Times Co brought by Gorilla Coffee, a coffee shop that has become a fixture in the borough's Park Slope neighborhood.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - While civil suits have wider latitude of what may be introduced in court, a judge in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn civil case will want hard evidence rather than mere accusations from other women that he sexually assaulted them, analysts say.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has ruled that an inmate does not have a constitutionally protected right to matzoh and grape juice.

HUDSON, New York (Reuters) - A deaf man has accused a nudist park in upstate New York of violating federal law by refusing to provide him with a sign-language interpreter at an annual festival.

HUDSON, New York (Reuters) - A deaf man has accused a nudist park in upstate New York of violating federal law by refusing to provide him with a sign-language interpreter at an annual festival.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man who fled the country with millions of dollars allegedly bilked from investors through a foreign currency exchange investment scheme has been extradited from Poland to face fraud and money laundering charges in Brooklyn, authorities announced on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Even by the standards of a salacious and unpredictable international scandal, it was a whirlwind week in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case.