Man sentenced to life after failed French church bombing

LYON, France (AP) — A Paris criminal court sentenced a 29-year-old Algerian man Thursday to life in prison for killing a woman and trying to bomb a church near the French capital in a failed 2015 attack that investigators said was plotted by Islamic State group extremists in Syria. The court imposed the sentence Thursday after a jury convicted Sidi Ahmed Ghlam on charges of murder and attempted terrorist murder. Ghlam testified that he had “embraced” IS ideology and regretted c