OH Man Gets Death for Killing Mother:  An Ohio man was sentenced to death Monday for the 2013 beating death of his mother.  Chanda Neely of Cleveland reports that 28-year-old James Tench beat 55-year-old Mary Tench to death after she confronted him about his use of her credit cards.  Her skull was fractured in the beating.  Last month, a jury found Tench guilty of three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of murder, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and tampering with evidence.  In addition to a death sentence, Tench received 49 years.  He is currently serving a five-year sentence for a 2014 robbery.  He maintains his innocence in the murder of his mother.

Central American Countries Airlifting Cuban Immigrants to U.S. Border:  The Obama administration has not demanded that Central American countries stop airlifting Cuban immigrants to the southern U.S. border, a State Department official admitted Tuesday.  Joel Gehrke of the Washington Examiner reports that at a hearing under question from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Francisco Palmieri, a senior official in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere, testified that Central American countries have not been told to refrain from airlifting Cuban immigrants to the U.S. border, insisting instead that these countries enforce their own immigration laws.  Costa Rica and Panama have flown approximately 8,000 Cuban migrants to northern Mexico.  Over a five-month period, 18,500 Cubans have arrived at the Texas-Laredo Border field office as part of a significant surge.