Hundreds of people have attended a church vigil in Connecticut to remember the victims of the school shooting that left 27 people dead.

The head of the Connecticut primary school devastated by a shooting rampage was among the victims, an official said today.

Impatient New Jersey voters queued up amid rubble and rubbish left by Superstorm Sandy as election officials scrambled to open makeshift polling stations on time.

New York City moved closer to resuming its frenetic pace by getting back its vital subways today, three days after a superstorm left neighbouring New Jersey stunned by miles of coastal devastation.

The sun shone again over New York yesterday, as the city and much of the US east coast took the first steps back to normality after being battered by superstorm Sandy.

The battered US East Coast took the first steps back towards daily routine today, even as rescuers combed areas strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire.

THE organisers of a controversial St Patrick’s Day parade in New Jersey are looking for another city to host their annual march after it was moved by local officials fed up with the number of drink-fuelled arrests.

IN A special Millennium edition Time magazine named Frank Sinatra ‘the voice’ of the 20th century.

IT’S time to celebrate “the man and his music”.

AT the turn of the last century, as the hem of American society was dampened by wave after wave of European immigrants, the Irish stretched out their legs beneath the table, threw a cap onto the coat hook behind the closing door and made themselves at home.

TODAY marks 12 years since Hoboken’s favourite son, Frank Sinatra, passed away.

DIVERS recovered a piece of a submerged helicopter and a fifth body yesterday as investigators searched the Hudson River for wreckage from the helicopter and a small plane that collided in midair, killing nine people.

Crews lifted the wreckage of a helicopter from the murky Hudson River today as police using sonar located the submerged small plane that had collided with it.

Divers recovered a piece of a submerged helicopter and a fourth body today as investigators searched New York's Hudson River for wreckage from the helicopter and a small plane that collided in midair, killing nine people.

Two bodies have been recovered so far after a small plane collided with a tour helicopter over the Hudson River near Manhattan today.

OFFICIALS are decrying political corruption in New Jersey after more than 40 people, among them rabbis and elected officials, were arrested in an investigation in which some were accused of laundering tens of millions of dollars and of black- market trafficking of kidneys and fake Gucci handbags.

Several rabbis, three mayors and two state politicians were among more than 40 people arrested when an investigation into the sale of black-market kidneys and fake Gucci handbags evolved into a sweeping probe of political corruption in New Jersey.