Republican and Democratic lawyers converged on Ohio today for a potential new overtime presidential court fight, with the focus this time on tens of thousands of uncounted ballots cast by people who would otherwise have been turned away from the polls.

For weeks Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell has generated controversy while deciding how voters in this crucial swing state can go about choosing a president.

Ohio has emerged as the most likely setting for any court fight that would put the close US presidential election into overtime, while armies of lawyers sent to other battleground states found themselves with little to do.

A MOTHER discovered three children dead after a brutal killer beheaded one and partially decapitated two others at an apartment in Baltimore, Maryland.

A mother discovered three children dead after a brutal killer tried to hack off their heads, police in the US said today.