PÁDRAIG Harrington’s travails continued at the Memorial tournament over the weekend after missing the cut for the fourth time in America this year.

Southern California is lining up its fire crews and aircraft to get in first if the hot, dry Santa Ana winds expected to return this weekend cause major flare-ups.

Waterville golfer David Higgins is the best-placed Irishman heading into day three of the Austrian Open.

A group of boys who posed as a 15-year-old girl for an internet prank ended up helping US police arrest a 48-year-old man who tried to meet the fictitious teenager for sex, Californian authorities said.

With ash and smoke turning day into night, a wind-driven wildfire closed in on several Southern California communities east of Los Angeles today, destroying four houses and forcing firefighters to make their stand in back gardens.

The threat of hot, dry Santa Ana winds forecast this weekend prompted authorities to evacuate hundreds of people today as one of three untamed fires in southern California threatened to block their only way out.

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