A judge has handed down a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for a Georgia man convicted of murder by jurors who believed he had intentionally left his toddler son in a hot SUV to die.

An elderly couple died in the US when they got stuck in a lift in their home.

The teenage brother of a man charged with murdering his father and seven others in a mobile home insisted he would never harm his family and said a dispute over drugs could have prompted the killings.

THE man who called 911 to report finding seven people slain in a dingy mobile home on a historic Georgia plantation was arrested on drug-related charges, though policerefused to say whether he was a suspect.