The sister of a man charged with setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York told police in 2014 that he was getting ready to hit her with a dumbbell and stabbed another brother in the leg when he tried to help her, police reports show.

Actor Kiefer Sutherland was among cattle customers roped into an alleged scam that netted more than $1m (€700,000), it emerged today.

An explosive 500-square-mile wildfire has burned practically to the doorstep of the evacuated US mountain town of Show Low, Arizona, as crews fought to hold back the flames.