There have been more than 350 shootings this year, in which four or more people were wounded or killed in the US, according to the crowd-sourced website shootingtracker.com, which keeps a running tally of gun violence.

The man accused of opening fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado and killing three people said “no more baby parts” while he was being arrested, NBC News and other media reported, citing unidentified law enforcement sources.

A man who opened fire at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic and killed three people, including a police officer, has been described as a loner who avoided eye contact, authorities said.

The regional head of Planned Parenthood has promised to quickly reopen the Colorado Springs clinic where three people were killed and continue to offer health care services.

“We have 20 coaches who can do Billy’s job.” Of all the thousands of words spoken yesterday during a four-hour session of the Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communication — called to examine the story behind Billy Walsh’s loss to Irish amateur boxing — those nine stood out.

A stuffed toy helped save a five-year-old US girl after she fell out of a third-storey apartment window, police in Colorado said.

When the call came from Alex Ferguson, Paul Ince was on the golf course playing against Ryan Giggs.

A man convicted of murdering the sister of actor Kelsey Grammer in Colorado 34 years ago was denied parole after the Frasier star testified against his release.

Museum devoted to former pope will display gun that nearly killed him

THE positive effects of fluoride on dental health were first noted in Colorado Springs in the early 1900s.

Plastic bank notes planned

In times of strife, a new hero must emerge.

Suspicion in the murders of a Texas district attorney and his wife has shifted to a violent white supremacist prison gang.

A group of American politicians has written to the Taoiseach urging him to halt any attempt to legalise abortion here and to ensure that Ireland remains “staunchly pro-life”.

A pilot suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend stole an empty passenger jet from a Utah airport, crashed it near a terminal, then killed himself.

Rains have cooled Colorado's deadly wildfires, but more than a dozen blazes elsewhere in the West have continued chewing through bone-dry pine and brush as firefighters keep a nervous eye for fireworks and other hazards.

Critical firefighting aircraft have been grounded during one of the busiest and most destructive wildfire seasons to hit the US west after a military cargo plane crashed battling a South Dakota inferno.

About 10,000 people remained displaced by the largest wildfire in Colorado history today, a day after President Barack Obama visited the scene and called it a “major disaster”.

A raging wildfire that forced tens of thousands to flee destroyed an estimated 346 homes this week, making it the most destructive fire in the US state of Colorado’s history, officials said.

Wildfires moved in on some of Colorado’s most popular summer tourist destinations over the weekend, demolishing nearly two dozen homes near Rocky Mountain National Park and emptying hotels and campsites.

HE could tell you how he was supposed to meet up with Michael Jordan at the Ryder Cup but business got in the way of old friends reuniting and he had to settle for a phone call.

A man invited a woman to his home, then reported her as a burglar – after his girlfriend turned up unexpectedly.

A psychiatrist testified today that a Colorado teenager was sleepwalking when he allegedly shot dead his nine-year-old brother and wounded his mother.

A MAN who murdered the sister of Frasier star Kelsey Grammer and two other people more than three decades ago has been denied parole after the prison board heard a written statement from Grammer calling the man a butcher and a monster.

A man who murdered the sister of 'Frasier' star Kelsey Grammer was denied parole after the actor pleaded against it, calling him a butcher and a monster.

EDDIE O’SULLIVAN may be looking forward to his reunion with the Ireland team this weekend, but you can be sure he won’t be spending too much time looking back on it once his first Test match in charge of the USA is over.

The family of a young man who went on a deadly shooting rampage in two Colorado religious centres before killing himself said they were "groping for answers" and praying for the victims' families.

The gunman believed to have killed four people at a Colorado megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the centre a few years ago and was sending it hate mail, police said.

Authorities searched a home in the US state of Colorado early today, seeking any link between two deadly shooting sprees at Christian religious centres that left both communities baffled and stunned.

A gunman killed two members of staff at a US missionary training centre after being told he could not spend the night there.

A US woman who went into a vegetative state more than six years ago awoke this week for three days.

NEIL SINCLAIR hopes to relaunch his professional boxing career by beating Arek Malek from Poland at Cork City Hall tomorrow night.

A two-month-old baby was taken to hospital with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit for an adult driver, medical officials said today.

Robert Charles Browne told investigators in Denver he used ether to knock out one woman he was trying to seduce, then “used an ice pick on her.”

DANNY PATE, a former world under-23 time trial champion and member of the US TIAA-CREF team, inflicted what could prove to be irreparable damage on the peleton when he sprinted up the hill to Cobh Cathedral to win the second stage in this year’s FBD Insurance RAS and claim the raceleader’s yellow jersey.

Radars, satellites, cameras and jet fighters normally dedicated to detecting any threats against the US and Canada were being used today to “track” Santa Claus in his global Christmas Eve travels.

CLASSICAL music star Ronan Tynan has reached a settlement in his lawsuit against a US hotel over allegations that faulty maintenance in a room had caused him serious injuries.

A US court has begun hearing an $8m (€6.8m) lawsuit brought by the Irish tenor, Ronan Tynan against a Colorado hotel after an accident while taking a shower.

Hurricane Rita steamed toward refinery towns along the Texas-Louisiana coast with 120mph winds early today, creating havoc even before it arrived.

High school yearbooks have been recalled so that administrators could black out a joke caption under one student’s picture: “most likely to assassinate President Bush.”