A stretch of the southbound 605 Freeway in the Lakewood area remained closed at the start of the morning commute after a Tuesday night crash that involved an overturned tanker and fuel spill.

The crash left two people trapped in a Nissan Armada SUV and spilled 3,500 gallons of gasoline across lanes. The SUV driver entered the freeway, lost control on the rain slick ramp and collided with the big rig, which was traveling at 55 MPH. 

Crews were able to free the two occupants of the SUV. They were taken to the hospital with unknown injuries.

The driver of the big rig was not seriously injured, fire officials said.

The crash was reported just before 10 p.m. at Carson Street. By 9:30 a.m., crews continued the fuel cleanup and began opening lanes after a nearly 12-hour closure.

Michael Larkin contributed to this report

The loss of seven people in a small plane crash leaves a "large void in our community and our Red Bird family," Illinois State University Athletics Director Larry Lyons said Wednesday.

"Bloomington-Normal is a small town, and in many respects everybody is touched by this tragedy, and they will all be missed," he said of the victims, one day after their plane went down while returning from the NCAA National Championship game in Indianapolis.

Two staff members of the school's athletics department were killed in the Tuesday morning crash, including Deputy Director of Athletics for external operations Aaron Leetch and Associate Head Coach of the Redbirds men's basketball team Torrey Ward.

Also killed when the Cessna 414 when down on an approach to the Central Illinois Regional Airport near Bloomington were 42-year-old Scott Bittner, who owns Bittner's Meat Co - Eureka Locker, 64-year-old Terry Stralow, co-owner of the popular bar Pub II in Normal, 45-year-old Woodrow Jason Jones of Bloomington, 40-year-old Andrew Butler of Normal, and 51-year-old Thomas Hileman, who was the pilot of the plane.

Lyons was joined at Wednesday's emotional press conference by Redbirds Head Coach Dan Muller and forward John Jones.

"These guys are just father figures to us," said Jones. "Coach Ward, me and him had a personal relationship, not only on the court but off the court. "He was such a good man. He went too early but you can't blame God why."

Illinois State University officials scheduled a memorial service for 6 p.m. Wednesday at Redbird Arena.

Todd Fox, an air safety official with the National Transportation Safety Board Chicago office, said an investigation into the weather, the air traffic control communications, the aircraft and other variables that may have contributed to the crash would be conducted. A preliminary report is expected next week. 

An 18-year-old man died at Hermit Falls near Sierra Madre Wednesday morning after trying to jump into water along the trail of the recreational area, officials said.

Officials responded to call about a missing hiker shortly after 8 a.m. at the 2200 block of Santa Anita Canyon Road, according to the the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Upon arrival, they found two people who were hurt after climbing down a cliff to try to rescue a man who jumped into the water, officials said.

The two people were transported to a hospital with minor injuries, but the man who jumped died at the scene.

The LA County coroner identified him as 18-year-old Jesse Yuth.

Cliff jumping is a coming topic among fellow hikers who visited the trail. Michelle Avidisyan wrote on alltrails.com, "There have been so many injuries reported from people who go cliff diving here... probably not such a good idea." 

Lauren Sugay wrote on the same message board,"IF YOU PLAN ON JUMPING THE 50FT, it's not too bad just make sure you pencil dive. The water was lower because of the drought and dryness but eveyone in my group who jumped made it out alive. It's scary, but doing it is a good experience; you feel so victorious!"

A 19-year-old college student died in 2013 after cliff-jumping near the same area. 

Two suburban Chicago cousins accused of trying to join ISIS and plotting to attack an Illinois military facility pleaded not guilty to terror charges Wednesday.

Hasan Edmonds and Jonas Edmunds, both shackled and appearing in orange jumpsuits, entered their pleas through their attorneys and answered "yes" when Judge Sheila Finnegan asked if they understood their rights. 

Hasan Edmonds, 22, and his cousin, Jonas Edmonds, 29, were indicted earlier this month on charges they tried to provide material support to ISIS. Prosecutors said Jonas Edmonds allegedly planned to attack an Illinois military facility, and they said his younger cousin planned to travel abroad to join Islamic State fighters.

Hasan Edmonds was member of Golf Company 634th Brigade Support Battalion, based in Joliet, according to the Illinois National Guard Lt. Col. Brad Leighton. He reported to the Joliet base one weekend a month.

Jonas Edmonds allegedly communicated to an undercover agent that it might be difficult for him to get travel documents. Therefore, he said he would stage attacks in the U.S., prosecutors allege.

Conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

Their next court appearance was scheduled for May 6.

A 29-year-old woman and her 6-year-old daughter found dead in a New Jersey home Wednesday may have been the victims of carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas generator, prosecutors and relatives say.

Octavia Campbell and her daughter Christiana were found dead in their home on Dodd Street in East Orange at about 10 a.m. Prosecutors say the mother's boyfriend discovered the two when he went to check on Campbell after she didn't answer repeated phone calls. 

Authorities say that a gas generator had been hooked up in the home without proper ventilation, and the power company had cut off electricity for non-payment on Tuesday. It appears there was no working carbon monoxide detectors to warn them of the danger. 

Campbell's father told NBC 4 New York he brought the generator to the home that night so his daughter and granddaughter could have working lights and appliances.

He put it in the basement and told Campbell -- whom the family called "Aki" -- to turn it off after a little while, he said, adding that he thinks she fell asleep and left it running.

There are no signs of trauma or foul play to either of the victims, authorities say. 

Other family members wished Campbell, a single mother who was studying to become a medical assistant and working part-time with her father in his construction business, had asked for help sooner. 

"We would have helped. She didn't need to stay here with a generator," said cousin Karrema Banks. "I believe it must have been an overnight thing, and she was going to handle it herself." 

Campbell's grieving father said, "To have a child like Aki, one would be blessed. I was very lucky to have her." 

Christiana was a "bright little girl, eager to learn" who "lit up the room," her day care teacher Cassandra Davis at Each One Teach One Academy said. 

And Campbell was "always there for us, whenever we had a trip she would go," said Davis. "She was a great mom. Christiana was the world to her." 

Carbon monoxide is odorless and colorless. Here are some ways to protect your family from being exposed:

• Make sure you have working carbon monoxide detectors. You are legally required to have them in the D.C. area. They cost as little as $30 at home improvement stores. Install one on each floor of your home.
• Check your appliances. Gas appliances like ranges, ovens or even clothes dryers can produce carbon monoxide if they're not installed or working properly, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
• Have your chimneys and vents inspected every year by a service technician. A block could cause carbon monoxide to back up in to your home.

A Wallingford, Connecticut, man who is accused of placing five harassing phone calls to Sandy Hook Elementary School and accusing staff of fabricating the 2012 massacre will undergo a mental health evaluation and has been ordered not to contact the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Timothy Rogalski, 30, left "four disturbing telephone messages" on the school answering machine on Tuesday morning, according to police. The fifth time he called, he spoke to an administrative assistant.

During the calls, which were placed between 7:02 a.m. and 7:57 a.m., Rogalski referenced several of the 20 students and six educators killed in the school shooting and also claimed the Boston Marathon bombings were fake.

Police said Rogalski also left messages on the machines of two other schools in Newtown.

He was arrested at his home in Wallingford and charged with five counts of harassment and one count of disorderly conduct out of Monroe. Newtown police also issued Rogalski a misdemeanor summons charging him with harassment.

Rogalski, who lives with his father, has prior arrests for marijuana possession, driving under the influence and interfering with police, officials said.

He kept speaking in court, despite advice from his public defender, and said he knows he might have offended people but never threatened anyone and only made five calls. 

"I don't think I said anything that horrible," Rogalski said.

Rogalski is being held on $50,000 and is due back in court on April 22.
 

Authorities in New Jersey say they seized more than 200 pets and farm animals from a couple who sells livestock after finding dozens of dead animals strewn about and piled up at their home, which had no heat or hot water since February, and another property where they kept animals.

Animal cruelty charges are pending against Chad Lloyd, 36, and Kimberly Brown, 23, authorities say. The man and woman already face child endangerment charges for allegedly exposing their two young daughters, aged 3 and 10, to numerous decomposed animals at their home in Independence Township and keeping them in a home without proper heating and supplies.

The investigation began April 1 after an animal control officer corralling some loose pigs the couple owned noticed several dead animals in various states of decomposition strewn throughout and near their property. The officer called the SPCA, which responded and found dozens more dead animals -- a number that "shocked" and "overwhelmed" responding officers, the agency said. Dozens of live animals in need of food, water and medical attention, were seized.

Lloyd told officers that he housed more animals at another property in Lafayette, the SPCA says. When they arrived at that location, they found a “large pile” of dead animals, along with dozens more emaciated and sick creatures. Many of the dead animals on the secondary property were chickens.

The dead animals in the couple's residence included cows, chickens, rats, a piglet and goats, including one left in a room attached to the master bedroom, Lloyd told investigators, according to a criminal complaint. Asked why they hadn't been cleaned up, Lloyd allegedly said he "guessed" he was lazy. When Brown was questioned about leaving the dead animals on the property, she said they hadn't gotten around to it with all the snow, according to a criminal complaint. 

"This is a major case and we will provide updates in the next few days. Horrific undertaking at two different locations that will not soon be forgotten by any of our Officers on scene," The SPCA said in a Facebook post.

The SPCA says that the surviving animals have been taken to animal sanctuaries in the state. Several pigs, goat kids, cows and calves, pheasants, chickens and chicks, ducks, geese, hamsters, guinea pigs, turkeys were rescued from the properties. An emu, partridge, chinchilla and a snake were also seized.

The Barnyard Sanctuary took three infant goats found at the property and said in a Facebook post that one of of the kids died shortly after arriving and that they are fighting to keep a second one alive. 

Two other animals have died since being rescued, the SPCA says. The SPCA is asking for donations to help care for the animals. 

A telephone number for Lloyd has been disconnected, while a number for Brown could not be located. They could both face 20 years in prison if convicted on the child endangerment counts.

It wasn't known if either Lloyd or Brown had retained lawyers.

Survivors of a Westlake high-rise fire were waiting to be allowed back into the charred building Wednesday after many faced a harrowing escape the night before.

A lot was lost but everyone made it out alive when the fire started on the southwest corner of the brick and cement building in the 1500 block of West Olympic Boulevard Tuesday evening.

Ladders sprung from fire trucks up to people trapped several stories high.

Tearfully recalling his rescue, Dickie Molina said,"(The firefighter) said it is not your time. I still get to see my grandchildren."

Molina made the five story climb down a ladder to safety.

Several other tenants said they found out about the fire by watching the news. Officials said there were sprinklers in the garage but none on any of the floors.

"This building was built in 1963 and at that time the fire code didn't require sprinklers," Chief Phillip Fligiel said, from the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Despite not having the help of extra water, 170 firefighters were able to put out the inferno of flames within an hour of responding to the emergency call reporting the fire at 7:45 p.m.

Investigators continued to determine the cause of the fire Wednesay. 

A man who police say shot his father in the face as they drove along the Schuylkill Expressway in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, did so as his parents took him to rehab.

The revelation about Tuesday evening's shooting came as a judge arraigned Kymere Corbin on 11 counts including aggravate assault, reckless endangerment and carrying an unlicensed firearms on Wednesday.

Corbin, 22, shot his 42-year-old father, Elbert Corbin Jr., with a gun he found in the 2010 Buick LaCrosse as they were driving along the westbound lanes of I-76 near the Conshohocken Exit, according to an affidavit of probable cause obtained by NBC10.

The elder Corbin and his wife were seated in the front of the car at the time. The wife told police that they were taking Kymere Corbin to the Malvern Institute to be admitted for drug and mental health treatment when argument ensued between father and son over the father's involvement in his son's life.

Corbin then stated "look what he gave me!" as he pulled out the pistol, said the affidavit. A struggle ensued, and as Elbert Corbin tried to pry the gun away from his son, the firearm went off, police said.

Corbin remained on the scene following the shooting as his mother fled on foot, said police.

Corbin originally told investigators that his father took the gun from him and shot himself but later recanted and admitted to accidentally shooting his father during a struggle in the car, said police.

Paramedics who were traveling in the area at the time immediately responded and found Elbert Corbin with a large blood stain on his shirt with trauma to his ear and eye. Elbert Corbin told the medics his son shot him as they transported him to Presbyterian Hospital for treatment, said police.

Doctors listed Elbert Corbin in critical but stable condition and expected him to survive, said police.

Pennsylvania State Police Philadelphia took a blood-stained Corbin into custody and recovered the gun, according to the affidavit.

Westbound lanes on I-76 were closed for several hours as police investigated the shooting.

A judge set Kymere Corbin's bail at $500,000 on Wednesday and was transported to county jail as he awaited preliminary hearing on April 20.

The coyote that attacked a 77-year-old New Jersey man as he was working in his yard earlier this week was rabid, officials have determined.  

The female coyote, which was eventually tracked down and euthanized after the attack in Saddle River Monday morning, tested positive for rabies, according to the New Jersey Department of Health, which conducted the exam.

It is the sixth coyote in New Jersey to be identified as rabid in the last 25 years, according to the Deaprtment of Health. 

John Zeug, 77, received eight rabies shots -- a complete first round of treatment -- immediately after the encounter in his Twin Brooks-area home in the heavily wooded town of Saddle River Monday morning. He's expected to undergo another round of shots Wednesday. 

He said he at first yelled at the animal when it wandered near his home, and it ran into the woods. But the coyote came back and sunk its teeth into him, creating a puncture wound visible through his tattered jeans. Zeug said he didn't see the animal coming.

He was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Officers spotted the animal running through a neighbor's yard later in the day and called in animal control and officers from the state Division of Fish and Wildlife, police said. The responding officers found the coyote in the woods and euthanized it, police said. It was taken to a lab for testing.

Authorities believe the coyote made her den under a log cabin on Zeug's three-acre property. Zeug said seven dead coyote pups were found behind the shed; it wasn't clear how they died. 

Saddle River police and city officials are now on the lookout for a possible mate or other possible offspring of the rabid coyote.

Police say they believe the same coyote attacked a neighbor's dog last week; that dog, a labrador retriever named Jack, needed 30 stitches to close his wounds. 

That dog is also expected to receive anti-rabies treatment. 

Workers in the area Monday said they saw a coyote acting aggressively toward dogs; police said coyotes are attracted to the canines' sound.

"She was not scared of us, didn't run ... kind of challenged us and moved away," said Saddle River Police Capt. Jason Cosgriff. "A lot of Saddle River is woods, lots of places for coyotes to run around."

Anyone who sees a wild animal that appears sick or is acting aggressively or is unusually friendly should call police, they say. Coyotes are normally shy animals, according to the health department. 

Authorities have noted that it's become "quite common for coyotes to enter into urban and residential areas and in many cases make small wooded areas their home," according to the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife.

Last month, a family in Closter showed NBC 4 New York an old doghouse in their yard in which two roaming coyotes had taken up residence.

People who encounter a coyote should never run away; instead, they're encouraged to "haze" the animal with techniques like making loud noises or throwing sticks or objects towards but not at the coyote, the Humane Society says.

A judge is giving Death Row Records co-founder Marion "Suge" Knight time to hire an attorney in a robbery case filed after a celebrity photographer accused him and comedian Katt Williams of taking her camera last year, according to The Associated Press.

Knight appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday chained to a wheelchair. The judge pressed Knight, facing a murder charge in a separate hit-and-run case, about whether he wanted a new attorney in the robbery case.

Knight's previous attorney, David Kenner, said in a filing he no longer wanted to represent Knight, but the judge told Knight in court Wednesday he needed to hear that from him.

The judge told Knight, "I need it from your mouth. Is Mr. Kenner fired?"

"Mr. Kenner's fired," Knight, seated at a courtroom table in a jail orange jumpsuit, responded.

Knight has until May 27 to hire a new attorney.

Wednesday's hearing was relatively uneventful, in contrast to previous recent court appearances. Last month, 49-year-old Knight collapsed in court after prosecutors asked he be held on $25 million bail in the murder case stemming from a fatal hit-and-run at a Compton burger stand.

His attorney in that case, Matt Fletcher, said Knight told him he had not had his medication that morning.

Earlier last month, Knight told a judge he was suffering from blindness moments before he was taken to a hospital. He said he was blind in one eye and had only about 15 percent vision in his other eye during a brief court appearance.

Knight is accused of running down two men, killing one of them, on Jan. 29. He has pleaded not guilty in what his attorneys have characterized as  a case of self-defense, contending a group of men ambushed and attacked Knight.

The "Cardiac Kings" are at it again. The nickname given to the reigning Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings during last season's playoff run, which featured three consecutive seven-game series on the road including an opening series that saw them down 3-0 to the San Jose Sharks, has been appropriate lately.

With just three games left in the NHL's regular season, the Kings once again find themselves on the outside looking in when it comes to the Stanley Cup playoffs. After consecutive victories at home against mediocre opponents, the Kings lost to the Vancouver Canucks on Monday night 2-1 in a shootout.

The glorified skills competition that the NHL uses to decide tiebreakers after a five-minute overtime period has been the Kings kryptonite this year. After the loss, the Kings are just 2-8 in penalty shootouts this season, including a stretch where they were 2 for 28 on shootout attempts.

The Kings continued their awful percentage in shootouts again last night as Jeff Carter (2-9), Anze Kopitar (1-9) and Marian Gaborik all missed, surrendering a valuable point to their Pacific Division foes in the process.

As of today, the Kings are tied with the Calgary Flames for third place in the Pacific and one point behind the Winnipeg Jets for the second Wild Card spot in the West. The Flames own the tiebreaker against LA by virtue of regular season and overtime wins.

As fate would have it, the Kings travel to Calgary on Thursday for a game that should decide their postseason future. Assuming they win tonight against Edmonton (a team they beat 8-2 less than a week ago), then a win over the Flames would give them the third spot in the Pacific and the sixth seed in the Western Conference, a loss, and the only chance they have is to pass Winnipeg who plays St Louis, Colorado and Calgary in their final three games.

If the Kings miss the playoffs for the first time since 2009, their record in shootouts is the culprit.

"That's obviously what has hurt us in the standings this year," said Kings defenseman Drew Doughty after Monday's loss to Vancouver. "We only got one point out of it, and it could be big for us in the end."

In all, the Kings have left eight crucial points on the board because of shootouts. To put that in perspective, had LA won all of their shootout games, they would currently be in the playoffs as the fifth seed and just one point behind Chicago for the fourth seed.

There's no rest for the weary as the "Cardiac Kings" are back in action Tuesday night against Edmonton. Kings fans are holding their collective breaths with just three games left to claw their way into the playoffs and make a run at a second straight Stanley Cup. In or out, we'll all know by the weekend.

A father accused of driving under the influence of alcohol and causing a fatal crash that claimed the life of his 5-year-old daughter has disappeared and now investigators are asking for the public's help to find him.

"Our investigators have exhausted all of our resources in terms of trying to locate him... but at this point we've been unsuccesful and that's why we're asking for people's help," Lt. Jeff Hallock from the Orange County Sheriff's Department said. 

Antolin Brito-Soto (pictured below), 33, drove his 2002 Ford Explorer, with four children inside, through a parking lot and over an embankment on the evening of March 22, 2014 in San Juan Capistrano near the intersection of Camino Capistrano and Junipero Serra Road, deputies from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.

The dramatic crash that seriously injured three of the juveniles and killed another was captured on surveillance video. It shows the SUV speeding through a parking lot before slamming into an embankment wall, lifting into the air and falling back to the ground. Plumes of dust and smoke, caused by the car starting on fire, are seen after the crash. 

Officials arrested Brito-Soto the night of the collision on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and later charged him with vehicular manslaughter and child abuse.

Brito-Soto posted his $150,000 bail several weeks later and has not returned to court since his arraignment on the two charges, deputies said.

"Where exactluy he is, we don't know." Hallock said. 'We know he has ties locally to San Juan Capistrano. We know there are ties to Mexico and then even out of state to Texas and the Chicago area."

Investigators are asking anyone with information to call 949-425-1860.

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on all counts Wednesday, setting the stage for a possible death sentence for his role in the attacks that killed three people, including an 8-year-old boy, and brought the city to a standstill nearly two years ago. 

Tsarnaev seemed to have little reaction as a federal jury delivered guilty verdicts on all 30 counts he faced, most of which could result in a death penalty sentence.  At times, he looked down or at his attorneys, NECN's Alysha Palumbo reported, leaning back in his chair and playing with his hair before the jurors left the courtroom. 

Tsarnaev, who according to prosecutors wrote that the bombings were retaliation for Muslim deaths, was captured three days after pressure cookers exploded near the marathon's finish line in April 2013. More than 260 people were injured, some of them losing limbs.

"The incidents of those days have forever left a mark on our City," Mayor Marty Walsh said in a statement after the decision was returned. "As we remember those who lost so much, we reflect on how tragedy revealed our deepest values, and the best of who we are as a community."

The penalty phase of the trial could begin as soon as next week, but has not yet been scheduled. Still, the guilty verdicts, delivered after 17 days of testimony and just 11 hours of deliberations, were met by officials and victims as an opportunity for the city to continue to heal following the devastating blasts. 

"Today's verdict will never replace the lives that were lost and so dramatically changed, but it is a relief, and one step closer to closure," Jeffrey Bauman, who lost both legs in the bombing, said in a statement. 

Timothy P. Alben, superintendent and colonel of the Massachusetts State Police, said the department hopes "to turn another page in the recovery and healing of our community." 

"We are hopeful that in justice, those that have been injured may find some sense of peace," he said. 

From the trial's opening statements, there seemed to be little doubt that Tsarnaev would be found guilty. His noted defense lawyer, Judy Clarke, conceded that it was Tsarnaev shown in surveillance footage leaving behind a bomb hidden in a backpack.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke Chakravarty, in his closing argument on Monday, portrayed Tsarnaev as a full participant in the bombings as he “brought terrorism to backyards and Main Street.”

"He wanted to terrorize this country," Chakravarty said. "He wanted to punish America for what it was doing to his people."

Clarke, known for helping notorious criminals avoid death sentences, countered that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was an adolescent drawn into the passion of his older brother. He knew it was wrong to kill innocents but thought that his actions would make a difference, she said.

"We don't deny that Dzhokhar participated in these events, but if not for Tamerlan it would not have happened,” she said.

Tsarnaev’s lawyers have been focused on sparing him the death penalty. They have portrayed the now 21-year-old as an impressionable young man in the sway of his older brother, Tamerlan, who became a radicalized Muslim. The brothers, ethnic Chechens, had fled violence in the Russian Caucasus region.

Tsarnaev faced 30 charges, 17 of which carry the death penalty.  They included conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, the use of a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death and possession and use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence in resulting in death.

Bombing victim Jarrod Clowery told NECN he wasn't surprised by the verdict. He said he hoped Tsarnaev would get life in prison instead of death, because he said the convicted bomber had wanted to be put together.

He also said he had eschewed following the trial closely in favor of moving on from the trauma of two years ago. He's now filming a TV show about pool and billiards called "The Hustlers."

"Overall, me and some of the other survivors I know, we're moving on," he said. "I'm living my life."

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed during a shootout with police and after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ran him over while trying to escape, according to prosecutors. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found hiding in a boat.

In instructions to the jurors, Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. of Federal District Court in Boston told them they could decide that Tsarnaev committed the crime directly, abetted in the crime or both.

In addition to the marathon bombing, Tsarnaev was found guilty of killing MIT police officer Sean Collier.

Chakravarty told the jurors that Tsarnaev could see that children were in front of him at the marathon's finish line.

He argued that the lectures on terrorism and songs that Tsarnaev had listened to for more than a year had convinced him that he was doing right.

The government showed jurors photographs after the bombs went off, including one of Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager, screaming in pain moments before she died.

Eight-year-old Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old graduate student from China, both bled to death after being hit by shrapnel from the two bombs. On surveillance video, Martin’s father, Bill, is trying to get help.

Clarke said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s prints were not found on the bomb-making materials only his brother's, and it was Tamerlan Tsarnaev who bought the batteries and other items used to set off the bombs. 

Tsarnaev’s lawyers called only four witnesses, all of them investigators who gathered evidence.

A terrorism expert testifying for the government told jurors that a note written by Tsarnaev while he was hiding in the boat included themes of global jihad, echoed ideas found in the al Qaida magazine, Inspire, and condemned U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The government offered graphic testimony about the victims’ wounds.

Alysha Palumbo and Glenn Marshall contributed to this article.

Homicide detectives are on their way to Griffith Park to investigate the discovery of a body in the 4700 block Crystal Springs Drive.

The body was found about 11:35 a.m. by park rangers, police said.

California Governor Jerry Brown turned 77 on April 7, celebrating with cake and an Italian dinner at Tommaso's in North Beach.

Brown, who recently ordered California's first mandatory water restrictions in light of the state's historic drought, tweeted out a photo of him enjoying cake and wine. "Double 7 is the charm! At Tommaso's in San Francisco," his tweet said.

On Facebook, his post got more than 12K "likes." "Run for the White House, I'd vote for you," one Facebook commenter said.

"Looking good, Governor!," another said.

Double 7 is the charm! At Tommaso's in San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/26chSXH3gT

— Jerry Brown (@JerryBrownGov) April 8, 2015

A 15-year-old boy who was shot in the back by Los Angeles police officers has filed a $20 million claim against the department as debate surrounds the chain of events in the shooting.

When he was testing out a new cologne with his friends in an alley on their way to school on Feb. 10, Jamar Nicholson didn’t know how his life was about to change.

"It’s like seeing a ghost, because this is where you got shot at and where you almost lost your life at," he said on Wednesday as he looked around the alley off Florence and 10th streets for the first time in nearly two months.

It was there where the 15-year-old Nicholson, 17-year-old Jason Huerta and two other friends had gathered, like that had on most days before school. But on that day, Nicholson says two men in collared shirts and ties, ran up to the group and opened fire.

Huerta said he thought they were gang members when he heard the shots ring out.

When the silence returned, Nicholson had been shot in the back.

"Deadly force should be used only as a last resort," said attorney John Harris, who is representing Nicholson and Huerta in a $20 million claim against the city of Los Angeles. "In this case, LAPD shot first and then asked questions later."

Nicholson and Huerta say the officers never announced themselves, only fired. It’s a very different story than what LAPD said happened that morning.

LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith says the officers had been driving by when they saw one of the boys pointing a gun at another person.

Smith said the officers ordered the boy to drop the weapon and when he didn’t, an officer-involved shooting happened.

Nicholson and Huerta maintain the gun — which turned out to be a toy gun with an orange tip — was never raised or pointed at anyone. Nicholson's mother says LAPD's handling of the case has left her with questions about their training and policies.

"I would like to know why they shot my son who didn’t have the replica gun," Geraldine Nicholson said. "And (why they) didn’t shoot the kid that had the gun."

LAPD admits Nicholson was not the boy they had seen with the gun, but his mother says the whole incident has caused her to lose trust in the department and continue to fear for the safety of her son.

The three other boys in the group were not injured but were questioned at LAPD’s 77th Division after the incident.

Harris said he believes the shooting was racially motivated.

"Our young black and brown children should not be fair game," Harris said.

But while he claimed "two white detectives" shot at the boys, LAPD named only Officer Miguel Gutierrez as being the one involved. Gutierrez has been with LAPD since 2002 and has returned to full duties.

Harris is representing both Nicholson and Huerta in their claim against the city. By law the city has 45 days to respond before the claim becomes an official lawsuit.

"Deadly force should be used only as a last resort. In this case, LAPD shot first and then asked questions later," Harris said.

Nicholson said he’s been seeing a therapist since the incident because of nightmares that he says won’t go away.

"I had a dream that the bullet came out of my mouth and when I woke up my wound was bleeding," Nicholson said. "So that’s scary."