No-contest plea made in baseball-game attack

LOS ANGELES — A California man has pleaded no contest to attacking his son’s Little League baseball coach with a bat during a game last year.

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office says 31-year-old Miguel Angel Mejia entered the plea Wednesday to one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon.

Prosecutors say Mejia swung the bat at the coach after the victim benched the defendant’s son during a game in Pasadena. Other parents intervened.

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The comments were in videotaped depositions of Bruce Jessen ahead of a Sept. 5 trial in federal court in Spokane, Washington.

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The attacker drove into a crowd in front of a branch of the New Kabul Bank in the city, detonating a car bomb so potent that some victims were blown into the nearby Helmand River, officials said.

The governor of Helmand, Hayatullah Hayat, said that civilians and soldiers were among the dead and wounded, including children. ‘‘Most of the victims were civilians, but some were military, and we are investigating why military men came to a bank in the city, since they