A US judge yesterday denied a motion by lawyers representing Sean Dunne seeking to question Nama CEO Brendan McDonagh in an ongoing Connecticut bankruptcy case.

A commuter train that derailed in New York, killing four passengers, was travelling at 82mph as it entered a 30mph curve, a US government investigator has said.

Moments after touching down, the pilot of a Boeing 747 cargo jet seemed confused in his exchanges with air traffic controllers.

Gayle Killilea Dunne was officially identified as a creditor of her property developer husband Sean in court documents filed yesterday in Connecticut.

The wife of developer Seán Dunne is to be added to the list of creditors in his US bankruptcy case in papers due to be filed in Connecticut on Friday.

Three men arrested when police raided a Chicago apartment ahead of the Nato summit had been planning to attack President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters, prosecutors said tonight.

A Florida man charged with hacking a homeless Connecticut man to death with an axe and eating his brain was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

A woman who raised a child kidnapped 23 years ago from a New York hospital was in custody today after surrendering on a probation violation charge.

In the days before his failed attempt to detonate a car bomb in the heart of Times Square, the American suspect, who had recently returned from his native Pakistan, did a dry run, a law enforcement official said today.

Two police chiefs accused of snooping on the surrogate mother for actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick were charged with several offences today.

TWO US police chiefs are being investigated in a suspected burglary at the home of a woman carrying twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, an official said.

AC Cars, Britain’s oldest sports car company, will build its first US manufacturing plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford, USA, has agreed to pay £12m (€17.7m) to settle lawsuits filed by 43 people who say they were abused by priests, a lawyer representing some of those plaintiffs announced today.

Snow and freezing rain swept across wide swathes of the north-eastern United States, causing hundreds of traffic accidents in which at least four people died.

An American band planning to perform at a St Patrick's Day concert in Ireland is staying at home because foot and mouth disease has led to the cancellation of the event.