A BEATLES contract for a 1965 California concert that reveals that the Fab Four refused to play before a segregated audience has sold for $23,033 (€16,827) — more than four times its estimated price.

A convicted US sex offender who posed as a monk to gain the confidence of his victims was charged in California with molesting another teenage boy.

A gunman shot a couple dead in their pick-up truck in California, forcing their blood-spattered five-year-old son to leave his baby sister and wander the neighbourhood in search of help.

Victor Willis, the original policeman in the ’70s disco band the Village People, skipped a court hearing in California where he was due to be sentenced on drug and gun charges and now faces more than three years in prison, prosecutors said.