SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Orange County’s district attorney says he’ll appeal a judge’s decision to give a lighter sentence to a man who sodomized a 3-year-old girl. Tony Rackauckas says Wednesday that he disagrees with last week’s decision to send Kevin Rojano-Nieto to state prison for 10 years. Rojano-Nieto assaulted a relative in his […]

BOSTON Now that a jury has convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on all charges, even more is at stake in the next phase of the federal trial: The same 12 people must decide whether the 21- year-old lives or dies. Tsarnaev was found guilty Wednesday of 30 counts against him, including conspiracy and deadly […]

TEHRAN, Iran Iran’s president today warned Saudi Arabia and its allies that their airstrikes’ campaign in Yemen is a “mistake” and called for a halt to the strikes targeting the Iran-backed Shiite rebels who have seized much of the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country. For two weeks now, the Saudi-led coalition has failed to stop the […]

SAN SALVADOR, El El Salvador had more homicides in March than any other single month in a decade, a dark milestone that some attribute to the collapse of a gang truce and one that could mark a trend of greater violence to come. Data from the National Civil Police show 481 homicides recorded last month, […]

TEHRAN, IRAN Iran’s top leader stopped short of giving his endorsement today to the framework nuclear deal struck last week between Teheran and world powers, while the country’s president warned separately that Tehran’s approval of a final deal depends on the immediate lifting of all sanctions related to its controversial nuclear program. The comments, taken […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — After a deadly attack on Kenyan students, a senior police official is urging Kenyans who may find themselves in a similar predicament to fight back and avoid being killed “like cockroaches.” Pius Masai Mwachi, a Kenyan police superintendent, spoke today at a Nairobi morgue holding the bodies of some of the […]

BERLIN (AP) — Israel’s embassy in Berlin says an Israeli man who was found killed in a ruined church had approached it last week to seek help in buying a plane ticket home. The body of the man, who police said today has been identified as 22-year-old Yosi Damari, was found by passers-by early Sunday […]

GROZNY, Russia (AP) — A relative of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says she remains convinced he had nothing to do with the Boston Marathon bombing, arguing that neither he nor his now-dead elder brother had any reason to carry out the terrorist attack. Tsarnaev was found guilty on Wednesday of all 30 counts against him, and now […]