A suspect is in custody after eight people were killed in a shooting, including a sheriff's deputy in Mississippi.

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles, only authority in Georgia with the power to commute a death sentence, declined to spare Ledford's life.

At least 14 people have been killed in severe storms rolling across the US.

Latest: At least 10 people have been killed in severe storms rolling across the US.

Three people, including two children, have been killed after a vehicle struck a Halloween-themed trailer in Mississippi.

Hickey has global success that someone like Sports Minister Ross can only look at askance, writes Gerard Howlin

Following the recent shootings in America, John Robert Lewis, the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district, has shared his experience of using a whites-only restroom 55 years ago.

The only woman on the US state of Georgia’s death row was executed early yesterday, making her the first woman put to death by the state in seven decades.

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Michael Jackson's ex-wife is engaged to his former producer.

The list of West Virginia customers being asked to avoid using water is growing because of a chemical spill into the Elk River in Charleston.

A high school teacher from Alabama is accused of kidnapping a six-year-old girl from school in Mississippi, sending a frightening text message to the child’s mother and paying to keep her overnight in a hotel.

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The Iseq Index rebounded as world markets reacted positively to comments made by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.

Mississippi's governor has described the refusal by a predominantly white church to allow a black couple to get married there as "unfortunate".

US public schools in Jackson, Mississippi, will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline.

He’s in jail for a hate crime — but his black friends disagree. Tony Dokoupil reports

The Mahon Tribunal has withheld publication of one section of its groundbreaking report on planning corruption as several councillors and a businessman are facing an upcoming criminal trial on related matters.

Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett, 'The Help' explores the touching relationship between two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

The trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray will resume on Wednesday.

A DEFENCE attorney yesterday attacked the notes and recollections of a coroner’s investigator who collected medication and items from the bedroom of Michael Jackson after he died.

AUTHORITIES rejected an attempt by a convict — set to be executed in a high-profile case last night for killing a Georgia police officer — to show his innocence by taking a polygraph test.

Supporters of American death row inmate Troy Davis in the US and Europe tried just about anything to spare him from lethal injection tonight for killing a Georgia policeman, a crime he and others have insisted for years that he did not commit.

Michael Jackson’s brother Jermaine has revealed a plan to secretly fly his sibling to Bahrain if he was found guilty of child molestation charges, it was reported.

US civil rights activists have filed a lawsuit against a Mississippi public school body, claiming officials at one alternative school respond to minor violations by shackling children to railings and poles for hours at a time.

The doctor charged over the death of pop megastar Michael Jackson has agreed to delay opening statements in the case until May.

A gunman in rural eastern Kentucky killed five people with a shotgun today before turning the weapon on himself, authorities said.

AN evangelist who terrorised his family while preaching at revivals was sentenced to life in prison yesterday after being convicted of killing his wife and storing her body in a freezer.

An evangelist who terrorised his family while preaching at revivals was sentenced to life in prison today after being convicted of killing his wife and storing her body in a freezer.

Large quantities of general anaesthetic and dozens of tubes of skin-whitening cream were found in Michael Jackson’s home after his death, unsealed search warrants revealed today.

A court officer briefly detained a group of journalists inside a Las Vegas courtroom following a hearing involving Michael Jackson’s personal doctor.

A US businessman claims part of his collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia was stolen from a storage facility and auctioned without his knowledge, it was revealed today.

Los Angeles’ police chief said today detectives investigating the death of Michael Jackson were looking at his prescription drug history and trying to talk to his numerous former doctors.

Bags of pills and other medicines were seized from Michael Jackson’s rented mansion yesterday as his personal physician continued to insist that the singer had not taken an overdose.

Police have reportedly “seized bags” of prescription drugs from Michael Jackson’s home.

US President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will skip the Republican National Convention because of mounting concerns about Hurricane Gustav, the White House said today.

Crews searched today for more victims of deadly tornadoes that killed at least 48 people and injured hundreds more in the US.

The death toll from tornados across four US Southern states that tore through homes, ripped the roof off a shopping mall and blew apart warehouses in a rare spasm of violent winter weather rose to at least 21 today, with dozens injured.

A reputed white supremacist showed no emotion as he was sentenced to three life terms in prison for his role in the abduction and killing of two black teenagers 43 years ago.

A CONVICTED murderer who, through a strange quirk of fate, became a staunch Limerick hurling fan for nearly 20 years has died of cancer on death row in the state penitentiary in the US state of Georgia.

More than 300 potential jurors have been summoned for the US trial of a reputed Ku Klux Klansman accused of abducting, beating and dumping two young black men into the Mississippi River 43 years ago.