Alberta connections abound as Team Canada faces U.S. in World Baseball Classic

A Canadian man was sentenced to 46 years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old Indiana girl last year. The Hendricks County Prosecutor’s office said Monday that Mahdi Hosseini, a 22-year-old from an undisclosed town in Manitoba, entered guilty pleas to child molesting and other charges related to his interactions with the teenager he’d met online and later travelled to meet in Avon, her hometown west of Minneapolis. “This defendant deliberately sought out a child, gained her trust, deceived her family, and crossed international borders to exploit...