Busta Rhymes was arrested on a drunken driving charge in New York early today, police said, marking the latest in a series of recent legal troubles for the US rapper.

Police shot three young men who had just left a bachelor party at a strip club early today, killing one man on the day of his wedding, according to police and witnesses.

A New York man hoping to reconcile with his parents made a grisly find in their Brooklyn apartment, police said: His mother may have been living with his father’s corpse for three years.

US rapper Fabolous was shot early today as he stood at a Manhattan parking garage, spurring a sequence of events that left him in hospital in a stable condition and under arrest for gun possession.

Actor Russell Crowe was arrested today for allegedly throwing a telephone at an employee of the Manhattan hotel where he was staying in New York, police said.