The US Navy has fired two senior commanders in the Pacific region in connection with two ship collisions which resulted in the deaths of 17 sailors.

A CALIFORNIA teenager who killed two classmates and wounded 13 others in a school shooting rampage tearfully apologised as he was jailed for 50 years to life.

A California teenager who killed two classmates and wounded 13 others in a school shooting rampage has tearfully apologised as he was jailed for 50 years.

A boy has told how he persuaded an armed teenage girl to drop the gun she had used to shoot a classmate in the second US school shooting of the week.