On this day, Feb. 24, in 1981, the headmistress of a McLean girls school was found guilty in the murder of the Scarsdale Diet doctor. Jean Harris, who ran The Madeira School, was the former longtime ...

Fifty years ago, the first Advanced Placement classes were seen as a way for high-schoolers to acquaint themselves with college-level work. But today, with 1.8 million students taking them, they’re ...

(AP) Jean Harris, the patrician girls’ school headmistress who spent 12 years in prison for the 1980 killing of her longtime lover, Scarsdale Diet doctor Herman Tarnower, in a case that rallied ...

Jean S. Harris, the private-school headmistress whose 1981 trial for the murder of a prominent Scarsdale, N.Y., physician galvanized a nation mulling feminist perspectives with its story of vengeance ...

She didn't mean to kill him -- or did she? More than two decades after Jean Harris fired four bullets into her longtime lover, questions still linger about the 1980 murder. "We often wonder about ...

NEW HAVEN -- Jean Harris, the patrician girls' school headmistress who spent 12 years in prison for the 1980 killing of her longtime lover, "Scarsdale Diet" doctor Herman Tarnower, in a case that ...

It is a very, very, very strict, old school diet. I have to tell you: I was very crabby. It's so cliché thinking about having a grapefruit for breakfast, but you do on the Scarsdale diet. And you get ...

Jean Harris, the patrician girls' school headmistress who spent 12 years in prison for the 1980 killing of her longtime lover, "Scarsdale Diet" doctor Herman Tarnower, in a case that rallied feminists ...

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 1981 file photo, Jean Harris, left, arrives at court in White Plains, New York Monday, Feb. 9, 1981. Harris, the patrician girls' school headmistress who spent 12 years in ...

NEW YORK, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Jean Harris, a former girl's school headmistress who was convicted and imprisoned for the 1980 murder of a best-selling diet doctor, has died, The New York Times reported ...

Jean Harris, the patrician girls' school headmistress who spent 12 years in prison for the 1980 killing of her longtime lover, "Scarsdale Diet" doctor Herman Tarnower, in a case that rallied feminists ...