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A Baltimore man faces a mandatory life prison sentence after being convicted Wednesday for taking part in the robbery and slaying of a Blairsville man three years ago. A jury convicted Deandre Jones Jr ., 32, of second-degree murder, robbery and conspiracy to robbery following two days of testimony in Indiana County Common Pleas Court . Jones was one of four suspects accused of planning to rob and kill Tyron Howard , 37, in his apartment at 122 S. Stewart St. Two of Jones’ co- defendants reached plea agreements with the district attorney ’s office and a third was convicted following a trial in June. State police charged that the group traveled from Altoona to Blairsville on the night of Sept. 29, 2014, and the purported leader of the plot, Michael Eades, told the others he intended to collect money Howard owed him from drug trafficking. Witnesses portrayed Howard and Eades as best friends for years. Howard was the best man at Eades’ wedding, and Eades named one of his children ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:15 a.m. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing after a vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people. Turnbull said Saturday that the boy's mother was badly injured and is in a hospital following Friday's attack at the Las Ramblas promenade . Turnbull says the boy's family is searching for him. He did not release the boy's name. Turnbull says: "All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona." Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says four Australians were injured in the attack. ___ 2:35 a.m. Police in Catalonia say they have searched two buses in their hunt for violent extremists believed responsible for a pair of deadly attacks in the northwestern region of Spain. Police say o...