A criminal investigation has been launched into the massive Texas fertiliser plant explosion that killed 14 people, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.

Two more bodies have been recovered in the wake of the Texas fertiliser plant explosion, bring the death toll from the blast to 14.

Worshippers came in their hundreds to pray at a church service honouring the victims of the Texas fertiliser plant blast.

President Barack Obama has by-passed Congress with a series of actions aimed at curbing gun violence.

SHADES of the US South’s racist past came creeping back this week just as the South could be poised to play a pivotal role in electing the nation’s first black president.

US agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a murder spree in the state of Tennessee.

Eco-activists blamed for fires that destroyed three environmentally friendly millionaires-row homes and damaged two others may have used only simple materials to exploit a legal loophole and avoid a huge jail sentence, it was claimed today.

The US President ordered flags flown at half mast today in honour of those killed in America’s deadliest shooting spree.

Authorities investigating the California arson attack that killed four firefighters have questioned and released two “persons of interest”, police said today.

An explosives-sniffing dog died after he fell more than 50 feet during a security sweep to prepare for a US professional basketball game.

More than 7,000 people who should have been barred from buying guns were able to buy them in 2002 and 2003, according to a US Justice Department review.

Three workers at a Texas fireworks warehouse were feared dead today after an explosion destroyed the building.