More than two million people across the eastern US lost power after violent storms and five people died, including a 90-year-old woman asleep in bed when a tree slammed into her home, police have said.

A charter bus carrying a US college baseball team from Ohio plunged off a motorway ramp today and slammed into the pavement below, killing six people and injuring 29, authorities said.

At least six people were killed when a US charter bus carrying a college baseball team from Ohio plunged off an Atlanta slip road early today.

Hurricane Charley struck west-central Florida with a mix of wind and water, ravaging oceanfront homes and trailer parks, tearing apart small planes and inundating the coast before moving inland to assault Orlando and Daytona Beach.

THE frantic manhunt for a jealous ex-husband who allegedly killed three former in-laws and his infant daughter before fleeing with three young girls ended near the Tennessee line when the suspect shot himself in the face during a police chase.

THE three Muslim medical students detained after a woman said they were discussing terror plans told reporters they want to clear their names and study to become doctors, but a Miami hospital where they were supposed to train no longer wants them.

Police closed a 20 mile stretch of road in southern Florida after detaining three men suspected of terrorist activity.