Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria will receive $1.1 million in a settlement resolving his defamation lawsuit against the Everett Leader Herald newspaper, which also agreed to cease publication after 139 years as part of the deal,

A vicious and defamatory newspaper crusade made up of fictions and falsehoods engineered to topple the mayor of Everett has ended in a $1.1 million payout and the shuttering of a more than 100-year-old newspaper.