USA: South Dakota officials have cancelled a public safety campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of jerking the steering wheel on icy roads, saying it’s too risqué.

A former judge who was being investigated for forwarding a racist email involving President Barack Obama sent hundreds of other inappropriate messages from his government account, it has emerged.

The remains of two US Army soldiers who had been missing in Vietnam for nearly 40 years have been identified.

A rapidly-spreading US wildfire forced the evacuation of nearly 200 homes in Montana, while nursing home residents in Washington state were evacuated because of smoke from a nearby blaze.

A raging wildfire destroyed several buildings in a desert community where dozens of Hollywood westerns were filmed and threatened other towns early today, forcing 1,000 people to flee.