In the Nation

SAN DIEGO - A 25-year-old college student reached a $4.1 million settlement with the federal government after he was abandoned in a windowless Drug Enforcement Administration cell for more than four days without food or water, his attorneys said Tuesday.

Daniel Chong was taken into custody during a drug raid and placed in the cell in April 2012 by a San Diego police officer authorized to perform DEA work. The officer told Chong he would not be charged and said, " 'Hang tight, we'll come get you in a minute,' " his lawyer Eugene Iredale said.

The door to the 5-by-10-foot cell did not reopen for 41/2 days.

Chong was a 23-year-old engineering student when he was at a friend's house where the DEA found 18,000 ecstasy pills, other drugs, and weapons. Iredale acknowledged Chong was there to smoke marijuana.

Chong and eight others were taken into custody, but authorities decided against pursuing charges against him after questioning. Chong said he drank his own urine to stay alive.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A car crashed into a Kansas City day-care center Tuesday when a sport-utility vehicle rear-ended a parked Cadillac, injuring the SUV's driver and three children, police said.

The Cadillac was parked and had no driver when the Range Rover rear-ended it, pushing it into the day care and trapping two children under the Cadillac. The three children were treated for mild to moderate injuries. The SUV's driver was in stable condition at a hospital.

The injured children were among about 40 inside the Christian Academy Child Care about 1 p.m. when the accident happened. Police said the SUV's driver was "approximately 80" years old.

The cause of the crash was under investigation. - AP

SAN DIEGO - The San Diego City Council voted Tuesday to sue Mayor Bob Filner over any costs the city must pay from a sexual-harassment suit filed by his former communications director, dealing another setback to the leader of the nation's eighth-largest city.

The Council voted unanimously to ask that a court require the mayor to pay the city for any damages and attorney fees if the city is found liable.

Filner, who is 70 and divorced, said Friday he would enter two weeks of "intensive" therapy Aug. 5, defying calls from his party leaders to quit. The 10-term congressman is less than eight months into a four-year term as mayor. - AP

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg suffered another setback Tuesday in his quest to limit the size of sugary drinks sold in New York when a court upheld an earlier judge's invalidation of the law, but the city said it would keep fighting.