NEW YORK, NY (AP).- An Edgar Degas painting that was stolen 37 years ago and recently rediscovered before an auction in New York will be returned to the French government, U.S. officials said Thursday. U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch and James T. Hayes Jr., head of the New York office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced that a Manhattan seller had agreed to turn over the painting, “Laundry Woman with Toothache,” without a forfeiture proceeding. Sotheby’s had given the small oil portrait of a young woman holding her jaw an estimated value of $350,000 to $450,000. Court papers said the seller, whose father had obtained the signed piece, didn’t know it was stolen. The family has the right to file a claim for compensation from French authorities. The return of the rare 19th century work