Scandal

A half-century in the making, Joe Paterno’s impeccable reputation was shattered in a matter of days.

MELVILLE, N.Y. -- Nassau County district attorney investigators are expected to arrest at least four more former high school students as early as next week in connection with an SAT cheating scandal that has gripped Long Island, sources said.

Sources close to the case say the former students have been told they will be asked to surrender to prosecutors soon. The total number of students who will be arrested in the investigation's second wave was not clear Thursday, nor was it clear whether any accused test-takers would be among them.

GENEVA — UBS chief executive Oswald Gruebel has resigned over a $2.3 billion loss caused by rogue trading at its investment division, which is to be restructured now to prevent similar incidents in future, the Swiss bank said Saturday.

WASHINGTON — Rupert Murdoch is a political kingmaker in Britain and his native Australia. In the United States, he's best known for promoting conservative opinion through media properties like the Fox News Channel. And in China, he's primarily a businessman working to give his News Corp. empire a toehold in that country's tightly controlled media market.

WEARE, N.H. — New Hampshire authorities on Tuesday confirmed the identities of those killed two days earlier in a murder-suicide, saying a Weare teenager killed his father’s girlfriend, broke into a nearby apartment and then returned home to kill himself.

Jacob Geiser, 18, and Cheryl Maher, 41, died early Sunday in the home they shared with Geiser’s father. Autopsies showed that Geiser died of a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, and Maher was strangled, stabbed in the neck and hit on the head, the attorney general’s office said.

LONDON  -- Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief and an ex-royal reporter were arrested Friday in a phone hacking and police corruption scandal that has already toppled a major tabloid and rattled the cozy relationship between British politicians and the powerful Murdoch media empire.

LOS ANGELES -- Federal prosecutors have lost their bid to extradite Dr. Ricardo Asch from Mexico, which has decided against sending the fugitive physician back to the United States to face charges stemming from the University of California, Irvine fertility scandal 16 years ago, a top Mexican official confirmed Thursday.

Asch, who headed the internationally renowned Center for Reproductive Health, fled the country in 1995 amid allegations that he took eggs and embryos from some patients without their consent and gave them to other women.