Police say a sniper has killed a man who fatally shot a bus passenger in a northern Indiana city before taking a three-year-old boy hostage.

Police officers have gathered around a home in Indiana where a man suspected of killing a bus passenger earlier in the day is holding a child hostage.

An Indiana motorway became a Rocky Road when 40,000lbs of ice cream spilled from a lorry, causing chaos at the start of the Christmas weekend getaway.

A pilot killed in a plane crash in Michigan had a passion for flying that propelled him back into the cockpit after a crash nearly eight years ago that killed his wife and two children.

US murderer David Leon Woods was executed by lethal injection early today for killing a 77-year-old man during a 1984 burglary.