Jared Remy, 35, son of longtime Boston Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Romy, was sentenced to a mandatory life without parole for killing Jennifer Martel, 27.
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In a 5-4 split decision, 12 years after barring execution of the mentally disabled, the Supreme Court on Tuesday prohibited states in borderline cases from relying only on IQ test scores to determine whether a death row inmate is eligible to be executed.
They’re the $10 million men and women. Propelled by a soaring stock market, the median pay package for a CEO rose above eight figures for the first time last year. The head of a Standard & Poor’s 500 company earned a record $10.5 million, an increase of 8.8 percent from $9.6 million in 2012.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid warned Tuesday if House Republicans don’t vote on comprehensive immigration reform by Aug. 1, President Barack Obama will take administrative action on the matter.
St. Simeon Serbian Orthodox Church will host a second fundraiser Wednesday to assist victims of flooding in the Balkans.
Archaeologists, historians and vampire hunters alike have examined the remains of a peculiar burial site in the town of Kamień Pomorski, Poland and some believe it to be a genuine vampire grave.
Seeking to turn the page on more than a decade of war, President Barack Obama announced plans Tuesday for greatly reducing U.S. forces in Afghanistan by the end of the year and then ending the U.S. military commitment by the end of 2016.
Four people were found dead Tuesday in a home in suburban Mission Viejo, authorities said after Orange County deputies making a welfare check visited the residence.
Walking school buses are catching on in school districts nationwide because they are seen as a way to fight childhood obesity, improve attendance rates and ensure that kids get to school safely.
A Utah family is fighting what they say is too severe a prison term for their 16-year-old son, who was convicted on felony robbery charges earlier this month and given the maximum prison term despite being told a plea deal would soften his sentence.
Officials call off search for 3 missing after Colo. mudslide
China called for a halt Tuesday to what it called unscrupulous U.S. cyberspying, saying that a monthslong investigation into reports on the “ugly face” of U.S. espionage has concluded that China is a major target of those efforts.
Nearly 4,000 California companies, farms and others are allowed to use free water with little oversight when the state is so bone dry that deliveries to nearly everyone else have been severely slashed.
Visa and MasterCard are renewing a push to speed the adoption of microchips into U.S. credit and debit cards in the wake of recent high-profile data breaches, including this week’s revelation that hackers stole consumer data from eBay’s computer systems.
Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes. Sandy Hook school attacker Adam Lanza. And now Elliot Rodger.