Criminal charges filed in Flint probeLANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s attorney general will announce criminal charges today against two state regulators and a Flint employee, alleging wrongdoing related to the city’s lead-tainted water crisis, according to government officials familiar with the investigation.The charges — the first levied in a probe that is expected to broaden — will be filed against a pair of state Department of Environmental Quality officials and a local water treatment plant supervisor, two officials told The Associated Press late Tuesday.The felony and misdemeanor charges include violating Michigan’s drinking water law, official misconduct, destruction of utility property and evidence tampering, according to one official.For nearly 18 months after Flint’s water source was switched while the city was under state financial management, residents drank and bathed with improperly treated water that coursed through aging pipes and fixtures, releasing toxic lead.Republican Gov. Rick Snyder announced in October that the city would return from the Flint River to its earlier source of treated water, the Detroit municipal system. But by that time, dangerously high levels of the toxic metal had been detected in the blood of some residents, including children, for whom it can cause lower IQs and behavioral problems.

Viagra wait period bill unlikely to passCOLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina lawmaker is proposing that men who want to get Viagra or other drugs to help them have sex wait for 24 hours and get a sworn statement from their sexual partners detailing their problems.Rep. Mia McLeod says her bill is a tongue-in-cheek response to all of the rules South Carolina’s male-dominated Legislature places on abortion.It’s unlikely to pass, but the Columbia Democrat says just having a committee hearing on the bill today will bring attention to the issue.McLeod’s bill would require a 24-hour waiting period before an erectile dysfunction medicine could be picked up from the pharmacy and require men to get counseling on celibacy as a valid life choice.

Cosby’s wife wraps up her depositionBOSTON — Bill Cosby’s wife on Tuesday completed her deposition in a defamation lawsuit filed by seven women who contend the comedian branded them as liars after they went public with sexual assault allegations against him.Camille Cosby answered questions under oath for about 5½ hours, according to Joe Cammarata, a lawyer for the women. He wouldn’t discuss specifics of questions he asked during the civil deposition.Camille Cosby’s attorneys said in a statement that she has “no relevant nonprivileged information” and that they were “thankful for this distraction to now be over.”