A $1.6 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed against a Baltimore County apartment complex and its pool management company by the family of a drowning victim, the plaintiffs' attorney, Mark Epstein, announced Tuesday. Cassandra Blake and her 4-year-old son were visiting a friend who lived at the Cedar Towers Apartments in Windsor Mill when she drowned in the community pool in August 2005. Her family filed a $100 million civil suit in 2008 alleging that the lifeguards on duty were unqualified and that the pool conditions were unsafe. Liability was not admitted under the agreement. The case had been scheduled for trial Monday.

- Tricia Bishop