Eleven years after she vanished without a trace, Brenda Heist approached police in Florida last week to explain that she had abandoned her two children on the spur of the moment, leaving behind her old life in central Pennsylvania to become a vagrant.

One student was shot dead in a high-school hallway in Tacoma, Washington, USA, as classes were starting this morning, and police arrested another student found wandering in a neighbourhood a few miles away, officials said.

FIVE men were charged in the slayings of eight people found on an isolated farm in Canada over the weekend, part of what police called an “internal cleansing” of a motorcycle gang.

Police have arrested five people on murder charges for one of Canada’s worst mass killings.