A woman arrested in Pennsylvania for murder claims she has killed more than 20 people in several US states.

A Pennsylvania woman charged with murdering a man she and her husband met through Craigslist has admitted the killing in a jail interview and says she has killed more than 20 others.

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Floodwaters from the bloated Mississippi River and its tributaries spilled across farm fields, cut off churches, washed over roads and forced people from their homes in the poverty-stricken Delta region.

TWO jailed sisters whose life sentences were suspended on the condition that one donates a kidney to the other have been released from a Mississippi prison.

Republicans captured Democratic governorships in at least 10 states, including some prime presidential battlegrounds, and hoped for even more gains.

An oil slick from the Gulf of Mexico leak was confirmed a few miles off the Florida coast today as the impact of the disaster spreads.

The widow of a fireman from the North faces losing thousands of pounds in a dispute over his pension, it was claimed today.

A woman in her 70s has died in hospital following a road collision in the North.

Feud and paramilitary attacks have fuelled surging numbers of arsons in the North, it was claimed today.

A MAN who died days after he was assaulted on Dublin’s O’Connell Street may have been struck in retaliation after a soft drink was accidently spilled on a passerby.

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Actor Morgan Freeman led a star-studded benefit concert for hurricane victims last night, telling a national television audience that the state he calls home “will rise again” from the ruins of the storm’s destruction.

HELICOPTERS plucked frantic survivors from rooftops yesterday and officials said hundreds of people may have died in Hurricane Katrina’s attack on the US Gulf Coast, which sent a wall of water into Mississippi and flooded New Orleans.

As dawn broke over the ravaged Gulf of Mexico coastline today, rescuers in boats and helicopters furiously searched for survivors of Hurricane Katrina, with fears the death toll could reach 80.

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Thugs who attack firefighters in the North face up to two years in jail under tough new plans, it was warned today.

IRELAND will face China, the team ranked fourth in the world, in the bronze medal match at the KT Cup in South Korea after beating Malaysia 4-0 yesterday.

People who commit acts of extreme violence after consuming drink and drugs will be made accountable for their actions in the courts, a High Court judge warned today.

Washington lobbyist Haley Barbour unseated Mississippi Democratic Governor Ronnie Musgrove as the Republicans consolidated party gains in elections in the United States.

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Cookstown’s Andy Barbour is set to play in his first major competition after being selected in Ireland men’s squad for the European Nations Cup in September - just five months after making his international debut.

An 18 year-old man who was convicted in April of the manslaughter of Brian Mulvaney today pleaded guilty to charges arising from two other assaults he carried out on the same night.

Nearly 40 firefighters in the North could have lost their jobs if a pay deal to end their strike had been accepted, employers claimed today.

Northern Ireland’s Chief Fire Officer today warned spiralling attacks on his crews could result in someone being killed.