Barely an hour had passed since Sam Ficken kicked the game-winning field goal for Penn State against the University of Central Florida on Saturday, but Croke Park and everyone inside and around the stadium were already moving on.

A woman arrested in Pennsylvania for murder claims she has killed more than 20 people in several US states.

A newlywed couple in Pennsylvania killed a man whom the wife had lured to a rendezvous through an online dating advertisement, strangling him and stabbing him repeatedly, police said.

It took 150 years, but a Pennsylvania newspaper said it should have recognised the greatness of president Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address at the time it was delivered.

Sweets to the rescue as chimps take over

An unusually early and powerful snowstorm struck the US East Coast, weighing down or toppling leafy trees and utility lines to knock out power to 2.3 million customers.

IT takes a lot of work and dedication to stage an event such as the Owners Pony and Young Riders Charity Show, but knowing it is appreciated makes all the difference.

IT can pay to wait for Lahana Savings in the last race at Curraheen Park tonight.

A retired US police chief said he was robbed by “probably the dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania” at a police officers’ convention attended by 300 narcotics officers.

I AM saddened that David Sowby (May 5) felt the need to sneer at my expressions of fear during the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear accident.

WHEN my sister Adi Roche mentioned (Letters, April 14) how I was living in Harrisburg during the Three Mile Island disaster in March 1979, she forgot to point out that I was pro-nuclear back then.

THE growth in mobile phone use could have excluded large numbers of young, newly-registered voters from the opinion polls in the run-up to the presidential elections.

A student shot his head teacher at a school in Pennsylvania early today and then killed himself, officials said.

A US nuclear power plant is on a high state of alert after receiving a "credible threat".