A man arrested over the murder of two nuns at their Mississippi home has confessed to the killings, a sheriff said.

The deserts can be transformed if everyone makes one change. That was the “One Vision advanced at One: The Alltech Ideas Conference, in Kentucky last month.

A blizzard with hurricane-force winds brought much of the US East Coast to a standstill today, dumping as much as three feet of snow, stranding tens of thousands of travellers and shutting down Washington and New York City.

A mother who lost her son after an unprovoked attack is leading a fundraising drive to help the family of a Limerick man who died in the US as a result of a violent incident.

At Dooley’s Bait shop in Lexington, South Carolina, the talk around the worm bins and minnow tanks was dominated by one subject: Dylann Roof, a previously unremarkable local young man now accused of one of most shocking murders in state history.

A man accused of killing his five children was an ex-convict whose homes were visited by social workers a dozen times in the past three years.

Cocaine cake a ‘joke in bad taste’

Jim Bolger reports Dawn Approach to be fully recovered from a setback and on course for the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

A former US soldier is suing a hospital claiming that excessive ice-pack treatment on his groin led to the amputation of his penis.

Shane Sweetnam was disappointed when Cian O’Connor was selected ahead of him for the Olympics... and the rest is history.

Pubs in the US and Canada popular with Irish emigrants have witnessed varying levels of support for the Boys in Green.

ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2001, I looked down on the smouldering ruins of the former World Trade Center from the top floor of an adjacent building.

PIGEONS feel the urge to gamble just like humans, scientists have learned.

A gunman in Kentucky has killed five people after an argument over how his eggs were cooked.

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

TODAY’S one of the bigger days of the season for our stable as Pathfork takes his chance in the Group 2 Galileo EBF Futurity Stakes at the Curragh.

I WISH to congratulate the Irish Examiner for airing all the views of various correspondents to the letters page on the Gallipoli issue.

A 16-YEAR-OLD girl has bagged a 10-foot alligator in a South Carolina swamp in the middle of the night. With a crossbow. The State newspaper in Columbia reported that Cammie Colin won one of 1,000 lottery slots for the state’s annual public alligator harvest.

Hundreds of prisoners had to be moved today after rioting inmates set fire to a central Kentucky jail.

A retired professor and his wife whose mutilated bodies were found along a rural Georgia road were apparently killed in an attack by nearly a dozen dogs, authorities said.

RESEARCHERS at Seoul National University in South Korea have created the world’s first transgenic dog.

THE party finally began both on and off the Ryder Cup course at Valhalla yesterday.

Top American stallion Storm Cat has been retired due to infertility at the age 25.

TRAINER Kiaran McLaughlin paid tribute to Invasor after the champion racehorse was retired following the recurrence of an old injury yesterday.

Street Sense and Hard Spun, first and second in the Kentucky Derby, will both retire to stud at the Darley-owned Jonabell Farm near Lexington at the conclusion of their racing careers.

IRISH collegiate athletes in the United States have some tough acts to follow as the latest round of conference indoor track championships get underway this weekend.

Belmont Stakes winner Jazil has been ruled out of the Breeders’ Cup Classic and will now be prepared for a crack at next year’s Dubai World Cup.

AN IRISHMAN was among the 49 people killed in a plane crash in Kentucky, USA, on Sunday.

American TV network NBC has apologised over a sketch at the Emmy Awards which showed a mock plane crash just hours after a commuter jet accident in Kentucky killed 49 people.

Dozens of people died today when a passenger plane crashed into a field after take-off.

Sheikh Mohammed dominated the opening session of the Keeneland September yearling sale, buying the day’s highest-priced colt and filly.

STRESS is not always bad for you, a study claims.

ACTOR Jason Priestley was seriously injured on Saturday when his car crashed in the final practice for an Infiniti Pro Series race at Kentucky Speedway.

Actor Jason Priestley was seriously injured today when his car crashed in the final practice for an Infiniti Pro Series race at Kentucky Speedway.

Tempera was put down last night after she developed a colitis and succumbed to laminitis, it was announced today on the Godolphin website.

Godolphin have confirmed that Tempera will miss the Grade One Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on Friday.

Antioxidant drugs may help prevent disabling dementia caused by the Aids virus, scientists have discovered.