"Am I unstoppable? You could call it that!” Candi Staton declares with a grin. The soul singer is keeping a low profile in a baseball cap and sunglasses, as we sit in a quiet corner of a hotel dining room.

A US judge threatened to sentence an Arizona man to 25 days in prison for leaving jugs of water in the desert for illegal immigrants.

A teenager from Monroe, North Carolina, has pleaded guilty to a murder that sent a mob of the victim’s relatives on a search for the killer, ending in the fatal beating of another man they thought was involved.

A lawyer and his son faced jail today for sending a man a deadly snake in the post – after a row about a car repair bill.

HURRICANE Isabel’s flight across the mid-Atlantic was swift, but its devastation will take time to overcome.