Gardaí last night were hunting for three men who carried out a savage doorstep stabbing which left a man dead.

Michael Lohan has been hospitalised.

A two-month-old baby was taken to hospital with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit for an adult driver, medical officials said today.

A tornado swept through a community east of Colorado Springs, damaging mobile homes and buildings and injuring at least 17 people.