Legal File

Bellows Settles Suit: James Bellows, former managing editor of “USA Today on TV,” has settled his $1.8 million lawsuit against GTE East, a branch of GTG Entertainment that makes the syndicated series. Terms were not disclosed but the settlement was described as amicable by both sides. Bellows, 66, was hired in October 1988 under a two-year contract paying him $275,000 a year, and left in March to help develop a new program for GTG. His lawsuit, filed Oct. 2 in U.S. District Court, alleged he was fired Sept. 26 without cause, justification or warning.