A woman and her boyfriend are in custody today, suspected of shooting dead her parents and four other family members, including two small children, at a remote rural home.

THE Democrats yesterday claimed victory in the race for Washington governor by a razor-thin margin of eight votes - after weeks of recounts following the November 2 election.

A 17-YEAR-old girl who survived eight days after her car crashed and tumbled 200 feet down a ravine may have been saved by her own dehydration, which prevented the expansion of a blood clot in her brain.

A 17-year-old girl who survived eight days after her car crashed and tumbled 200 feet down a ravine may have been saved by her own dehydration, which prevented the expansion of a blood clot in her brain.

Uttering the word “guilty” 48 times with chilling calm, Gary Leon Ridgway admitted being the US serial murderer known as the Green River Killer and confessed to strangling four dozen women over two decades – “so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight”.

A MAN, who has been married three times and is the father of a child, is to stand before a judge in Seattle this week accused of 48 charges of murder.

A man who has been married three times and is the father of a child, is to stand before a judge in Seattle this week accused of 48 charges of murder.