Cosby files suit against accuserPHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby has filed a sealed breach-of-contract lawsuit against Pennsylvania sexual-assault accuser Andrea Constand, her lawyer, her mother and the National Enquirer’s publisher.The defendants are subject to confidentiality clauses covering the settlement of lawsuits Constand filed against Cosby and the tabloid in 2005.Constand accuses Cosby of drugging and molesting her at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. Her complaint wasn’t prosecuted until December, when a new district attorney reopened it and charged Cosby with sexual assault.Cosby filed the lawsuit a day before a Feb. 2 criminal court hearing that included testimony from Constand lawyer Dolores Troiani. The judge warned Cosby’s lawyers not to accuse Troiani of breaking the confidentiality agreement because she was subpoenaed to testify.

3 die in house fire, woman chargedPITTSBURGH — Police say a 42-year-old woman told them a boarding house was “filled with demons” before she set it on fire, killing the owner and two other residents.But police say that suspect, Latoya Lyerly, also told investigators she had argued about the volume of a radio the night before Wednesday’s fire, and that she had threatened to burn down the house.Lyerly remained jailed Thursday on charges including homicide and arson. Police say she’d been living at the house for three weeks after getting kicked out of a YMCA. She says the owner paid her to cook. The name of the home’s owner hasn’t been confirmed. The other two victims are 68-year-old Gerald Johnson and 56-year-old Calvin Turner.