Cuomo: AIG executives to return $50M bonuses

Cuomo: AIG executives to return $50M bonuses

NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Monday that 15 employees who received some of the largest bonuses from American International Group Inc. have agreed to return the more than $30 million worth of payments in full.

In total, AIG employees have agreed to return about $50 million of the $165 million in bonuses awarded earlier this month by the troubled insurer, Cuomo’s office said.

Cuomo said he still hopes that more AIG employees will return their bonuses.

Brit teens charged in plot

LONDON — Two British teens have been charged with plotting to bomb a school on the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School killings in Colorado, prosecutors said Monday.

A 16-year-old and a 17-year-old had a plan to strike on April 20, according to Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service. The date marks 10 years since students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 13 people before committing suicide in the school’s library.

The British teens are accused of “conspiracy to cause an explosion likely to endanger life and injure property.”

Teen charged in cop’s death

DUBLIN — Authorities charged an Irish Catholic teenager Monday with killing a policeman — one of two deadly gun attacks by IRA dissidents this month that rocked Northern Ireland’s peace process.

The 17-year-old male suspect was arrested the day after the March 9 death of Constable Stephen Carroll, 48, an attack claimed by a splinter group called the Continuity IRA. The suspect was not further identified pending a court appearance today in a Belfast suburb.

Wind shear eyed as cause

TOKYO — Wind shear may have caused the crash of a FedEx jet that cart-wheeled on the runway at Tokyo’s main international airport and burst into a fireball, investigators said Monday, but experts noted that the model was notoriously difficult to land.

The American pilot and co-pilot — the only two people on board — were killed when the MD-11 cargo plane bounced on its landing at Tokyo’s Narita international airport, slammed onto the runway and tipped onto its side before exploding into flames.

At least 23 die in blast

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber struck a tent filled Monday with Kurdish funeral mourners, unleashing a huge fireball that killed at least 23 people in a northern town where Kurds and Arabs are competing for power.

Also Monday, Turkey’s visiting president pressed the Iraqi government to crack down on Kurdish rebels who stage cross-border raids into Turkish territory from sanctuaries in northern Iraq.

The provincial security office said 23 people were killed and 34 wounded in the suicide attack in the town of Jalula some 80 miles northeast of Baghdad.

Octomom fires free nanny-training service

LOS ANGELES — Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman has fired a nonprofit group of nurses that helped care for her children, accusing the group of spying on her and reporting her to child welfare officials, her spokesman said Monday.

Suleman attorney Jeff Czech said the relationship started badly between Suleman and Angels in Waiting, which has been training nannies paid by Suleman at the family’s La Habra home.

Last month an attorney for Angels in Waiting filed a complaint against Suleman with child welfare officials, seeking an investigation into whether the mother could provide a suitable environment for her 14 children.

Letterman weds girlfriend

LOS ANGELES — David Letterman said he and longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko had a bumpy trip to matrimony last week.

During a taping Monday of CBS’ “Late Show,” Letterman said he and Lasko married March 19 at the Teton County Courthouse in Choteau, Mont., but only after their truck got stuck on a muddy road.

Letterman and Lasko, whose son, Harry, was born in November 2003, didn’t take an immediate honeymoon. The late-night host was back at work in New York on Monday to deliver the news — and a few jokes about the marriage.

“Regina and I began dating in February of 1986, and I said, ‘Well, things are going pretty good, let’s just see what happens in about 10 years,”’ Letterman, who turns 62 next month, said at the taping, according to a transcript.

Associated Press