Since 1959, the seemingly impossible task of deciding a North American senior football champion has challenged the overseers of the GAA across the US and Canada.

Rescue crews were searching today for two passengers missing after an amphibious sightseeing boat in the Delaware River off Philadelphia was struck by a barge, hurling 37 people overboard.

IT will not exactly rank with his namesake’s crossing of the Delaware, but if George Washington pulls off a victory in tomorrow night’s Breeders’ Cup Classic it will certainly be a revolutionary moment for Aidan O’Brien.

Levees around the vulnerable city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, held against the swollen Susquehanna River today, ending an evacuation order for 200,000 people.

Several hundred people joined a handful of exotic dancers in front of the New Jersey Statehouse tonight to protest the US state’s new indoor smoking ban.

AS their parents frantically searched for them, three small boys were tucked quietly in the boot of a car, where any noise they may have made was muffled by insulation or drowned out by the sound of driving rain.