Baltimore blaze...Defense: Brother led 'good kid' to terror...Harsher sentences in ferry sinking

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BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore firefighters are spraying water on commercial and residential buildings near what's left of the Mary Harvin Transformation Center. The brick building was engulfed by flames earlier this evening, after rioting and looting broke out following the funeral of Freddie Gray. Some flames are still visible and firefighters are trying to prevent them from spreading, given the number of abandoned rowhouses nearby.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore's mayor says, "Too many people have spent generations building up this city for it to be destroyed by thugs." Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is a lifelong resident of the city. As rioters hurled bricks at police, set cars on fire and looted stores, she imposed a weeklong curfew calling the violence and destruction "senseless" and saying it would have a negative impact on the community for years.

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) say he was "a good kid" who was led down the path to terrorism by his increasingly fanatical older brother. David Bruck pleaded with jurors to spare Tsarnaev's life as he delivered the defense's opening statement in the penalty phase of Tsarnaev's trial. But Bruck conceded that no punishment Tsarnaev can get would be equal to the suffering of the bombing victims.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Fear of aftershocks have kept thousands of people outside through another night in Nepal's capital. The estimated death toll from Saturday's earthquake has soared past 4,000 and officials say it could go much if the higher mountain villages that rescue workers are still struggling to reach were hit hard. Aid workers and officials are pleading for food, shelter and medicine for survivors.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean appeals court has handed down a sentence of life in prison to the captain of a ferry that sank last year. The sentence is harsher than a lower court's November verdict that sentenced Lee Joon-seok to 36 years in prison for negligence and abandoning passengers in need. Other crew members were sentenced from 18 months to 12 years in prison. More than 300 people died in the incident, most of them teenagers on a school trip.