Three men and one woman arrested in New York have been charged with drugs offences possibly connected to narcotics found at the home of film star Philip Seymour Hoffman following his death of an apparent heroin overdose, law enforcement officials said last night.

An Irish nanny living in the US, who has been charged with violently assaulting a baby who later died, may yet face a murder charge, the district attorney’s office has said.

The Connecticut town shattered by the school massacre held its first two funerals today.