PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The owner of the radio station that ran ads for a concert where a fire killed 100 people agreed to pay $22 million. A beer distributor that helped promote the show agreed to $16 million.

Dozens of companies, governments and individuals have reached tentative settlements totaling more than $175 million over the 2003 nightclub fire.

But barely 1 percent comes from the only two parties found to have some criminal culpability: the club owners who installed cheap packaging foam as soundproofing, and the rock band tour manager whose pyrotechnics made the foam burn like gasoline.

Jeffrey and Michael Derderian, the owners of The Station nightclub in West Warwick, have reached an $813,000 settlement with survivors and relatives of those killed, according to court papers filed yesterday.

The agreement with the Derderians comes a day after a separate $1 million settlement with members of Great White, the 1980s rock band whose pyrotechnics triggered the Feb. 20, 2003, fire. That settlement covered Great White's tour manager, Daniel Biechele, who set off the pyrotechnics.

ALGER, Wash. -- Authorities yesterday were trying to determine what set off a shooting and stabbing rampage that left six people dead and four wounded -- attacks they blame on a drug offender who was released from jail less than a month ago.

The mother of suspect Isaac Zamora, 28, said he is "desperately mentally ill" and had been living in the woods. Dennise Zamora said one of those killed Tuesday was a sheriff's deputy who had tried to help their family for years.

The shootings began close to Dennise Zamora's house near the small town of Alger, about 70 miles north of Seattle. They continued amid a police pursuit on Interstate 5 and ended in Mount Vernon, about 20 miles south of Alger, when Isaac Zamora turned himself in at a sheriff's office.

The dead included two construction workers killed in Alger and a motorist shot along I-5 near a rest stop.

DETROIT -- Prosecutors accusing Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of lying on the witness stand to cover up an extramarital affair with a top aide said yesterday that a plea deal is expected soon in the case, though the mayor's attorneys insisted one had not been struck yet.

The surprise development came as Gov. Jennifer Granholm heard evidence in an extraordinary hearing that could result in the married mayor's removal from office. The outcome of the criminal case does not necessarily bear on the governor's hearing.

The City Council is trying to have Mr. Kilpatrick removed, saying it was misled when it approved an $8.4 million settlement last year with fired police officers.

WASHINGTON -- Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff told a federal judge yesterday that his lifestyle of trading expensive gifts for political favors crossed the line, even by Washington standards, but said he was "not a bad man" and pleaded for leniency.

Mr. Abramoff, the central figure in a corruption scandal that shook up Washington politics and contributed to the Republican loss of Congress in 2006, is scheduled to be sentenced today. In a letter to the court yesterday, he said even he is shocked to look back on what his life had become.

Mr. Abramoff is serving a nearly six-year prison sentence for a fraudulent Florida casino deal. He faces up to 11 years in prison when he is sentenced today for corrupting Capitol Hill lawmakers with expensive meals, golf junkets, luxury sports tickets and other gifts.