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A 29-year-old man was scheduled to be arraigned on Friday in Lancaster, California on murder and other charges stemming from the mauling death of a 63-year-old female jogger, Pamela Devitt, by his pack of pit bulls, with authorities saying that DNA testing confirmed his dogs attacked her.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent, his mother Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told the Associated Press.

Eleven young people were kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar in Mexico City's Zona Rosa, a district filled with restaurants, dance clubs and offices. The mass abduction happened sometime between 10 a.m. and noon on Sunday, just off the city's main boulevard Paseo de la Reforma, near the Angel of Independence monument, about 1 ½ blocks from the U.S. Embassy.