The daughter of former vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin has lost her bid to keep a bitter custody dispute over her year-old son confidential.

An Alaska judge’s ruling revealed a heated legal custody battle between former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s daughter and the father of Mrs Palin’s grandson.

The father of Sarah Palin’s grandchild said the former Republican vice-presidential candidate wanted to adopt the baby so people would not know her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant.

Bristol Palin, the teenage daughter of former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and Levi Johnston have broken off their engagement, he said - about two and a half months after the couple had a baby.

Alaska governor Sarah Palin and her unmarried teenage daughter who announced her pregnancy as her mother became the Republican vice-presidential candidate gave a frank TV interview about the issue.

Defeated Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin says her future son-in-law is not a high school dropout as the press is reporting.

THE daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has given birth to a son named Tripp.

A FATHER-of-one who was attacked and fatally injured at a supermarket in a row over queue-jumping was an innocent bystander, it has been revealed.

A 15-truck pile-up on a rain-slicked southern California freeway left 10 people injured, at least one missing and severed a key transit link between Los Angeles and San Francisco, authorities said.

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Linda Tripp, her breast cancer in remission, has said she will marry her childhood sweetheart in the spring.

Linda Tripp has filed a lawsuit against the US government, alleging the Pentagon illegally told a newspaper she was being interviewed for a job in the Defence Department.