OUR daughter, Colleen Ann Meehan Barkow, aged 26, perished in the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001.

A husband accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill his wife had already prepared an urn inscribed with the words: “Bitches Ashes!“, police said today.

With just three days left in office, Illinois Governor George Ryan pardoned four death row inmates he said were tortured by Chicago police into falsely confessing in the 1980s.

BEFORE he died, Damian Meehan phoned his firefighter brother, Eugene, for a bit of advice.

Armed with rifles and a pack of wild dogs, a family of six children stayed in their ramshackle Idaho home for a third day, refusing to accept help from government officials they fear and distrust.