WNBA star Brittany Griner's nine-year prison sentence was upheld on Tuesday during a Moscow regional court hearing. Convicted murderer Scott Peterson has been officially removed from death row after California's Supreme Court overturned his death sentence for killing his pregnant wife in 2002. Ash Carter, who served as President Obama's Secretary of Defense, passed away at the age of 68. The report shows a 13 percent annual gain in August, marking a 2.6 percent decline from the previous month and the largest plummet in housing costs since 1987.