NEW YORK — When Mitt Romney was a good-looking teen in the buttoned-up ’60s, corporal punishment was the norm and bullying had a different, more acceptable name: hijinks.
ATLANTA — More than $1 billion has been spent over the past decade researching autism. In some ways, the search for its causes looks like a long-running fishing expedition, with a focus on everything from genetics to the age of the father, the weight of the mother, and how close a child lives to a freeway.
As a trial date inches closer, it appears likely that a 25-year-old Delaware man accused of shooting and killing his roommate will make prosecutors prove it in court. “There have been no discussions about a plea,” defense attorney John Cornely told the Gazette Monday. Cornely and co-counsel Scott Gordon have lined up a Cleveland forensic psychologist willing to testify that Joel E. Sellers, who served in Iraq, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Defense attorneys plan to use that testimony to bolster their contention that Sellers acted in self-defense when he shot and killed George McArthur V, 24, in the Liberty Road townhouse the two shared.