An American student was raped while she was sleepwalking along a road near her Ohio home, a court heard.

It was not until a 42-year-old prisoner took a shower that surprised jail authorities discovered that they were holding a woman instead of a man on statutory rape charges.

An American music producer has reportedly stunned a judge by revealing he is set to have six children this year, by six different women.

TWO US federal judges yesterday barred parties from posting challengers at polling places throughout Ohio, saying poll workers, not outsiders, should determine voter eligibility.

POLICE appeared to follow procedure when attempting to subdue a black man who later died, Cincinnati police chief Thomas Streicher said yesterday.

Cincinnati’s mayor has declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew amid the worst outbreak of racial violence in the Ohio city since the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968.