A military judge said she will announce on Wednesday the sentence for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who gave reams of classified information to WikiLeaks. Army Col. Denise Lind said Tuesday that she was still deliberating but was confident she would have a sentence by Wednesday morning. "At 10 a.m. tomorrow, I will announce the sentence," Lind said about 2½ hours into her deliberations. Manning faces up to 90 years in prison for leaking more than 700,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and State Department diplomatic cables in 2010 while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. Prosecutors have asked for at least a 60-year prison term. Capt. Joe Morrow said Monday that a long prison sentence would dissuade other soldiers from following in Manning's footsteps. Settlement talks in Filner case continue Embattled San Diego Mayor Bob Filner dropped out of sight Tuesday as settlement talks mediated by a former federal judge continued for a second day in the sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him and the city by his one-time press secretary. Discussions aimed at reaching a settlement of the litigation began Monday at a downtown San Diego office building several blocks from City Hall, according to Gloria Allred, the attorney representing the plaintiff in the case, Irene McCormack Jackson. Allred said the sessions were presided over by retired U.S. district judge J. Lawrence Irving, a respected private mediator, who she said had asked that all parties refrain from discussing the talks publicly. Sixteen women have come forward since last month to publicly accuse Filner, a 70-year-old Democrat and former congressman, of groping or making other unwanted advances toward them. Jackson is the only one to have sued the mayor. Filner, who took office in January, has so far refused to step down. 8 injured in blast at U.S. naval station An explosion during boat maintenance at a U.S. naval base Tuesday injured a civilian firefighter and seven sailors, one of them seriously. Navy officials said they were trying to determine what caused the blast, which occurred about 9 a.m. at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Middletown. A Navy spokeswoman said it occurred while personnel were doing routine maintenance on a 27-foot aluminum utility boat. The blast was confined to a boathouse where the maintenance was being done. The station provides ammunition and explosives for Navy vessels. Navy rejects panel's proposed protections The U.S. Navy says it will not adopt recommendations by the California Coastal Commission for limiting harm to marine mammals from Navy sonar training, potentially moving the two sides closer to another round of legal conflict over the issue. In a July 31 letter, Navy officials said they disagreed with the commission's finding in March that the Navy's plan for training exercises did not include sufficient information. Naval vessels train with sonar off the Southern California coast and Hawaii. In March, the California Coastal Commission rejected the Navy's plan for training, which includes sonar and underwater explosives; the commission recommended that the Navy adopt further protections for giant blue whales and other marine mammals. In the letter, the Navy said it would not adopt the recommendations. Orange County Register