A man accused of kidnapping three women, keeping them captive in his home in Cleveland, Ohio, for about a decade and raping them repeatedly is facing a final pre-trial hearing, a day after his lawyers and prosecutors said they have entered into plea negotiations.

A known sex offender is expected to face charges today after authorities who responded to a report of a foul odour found the bodies of three women in a low-income Ohio neighbourhood.

The man accused of kidnapping and raping three women over a decade in his home is due back in court and will face further charges.

A man accused of holding three women captive for a decade is facing 329 charges including kidnapping and rape.

An Ohio prosecutor says he may seek the death penalty against the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home for about a decade for forcing them to suffer miscarriages.

Three women who went missing around a decade ago had been tied up and held in a home in Cleveland, Ohio, before being found alive, police said.

Barack Obama worked to hang on to his slim lead in the crucial battleground state of Ohio and bounce back from a disappointing debate performance that re-energised the campaign of Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

A US judge sentenced two parents to eight years in prison after they pleaded guilty to failing to get medical help for their eight- year-old boy before he died from a treatable form of cancer.

The number of bodies found in and near a rapist’s home in the US rose to at least 10 when authorities unearthed four corpses from his back yard and found a skull in a bucket in the basement.

Six women whose badly-decomposed bodies were found at the home of a convicted rapist had been murdered, medical experts said.

Police were working today to identify three of six bodies discovered at the home of a convicted rapist.

Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts in today’s US elections, delaying voters in several states and forcing some to use paper ballots instead.

Broward County officials in Florida are questioning how many of the 58,000 absentee ballots they sent out actually reached voters.