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

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Former world boxing champion Jermain Taylor has been arrested following a shooting at his Arkansas home.

As many as nine deaths are being reported from severe storms blowing through the US South, and the toll could rise.

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A second straight night of storms has ripped through northern Arkansas, taking the death toll to 11.

THOUSANDS of blackbirds plummeted to their deaths in front of horrified New Year revellers in a small Arkansas town.

Thousands of blackbirds plummeted to their deaths in front of horrified New Year revellers in a small Arkansas town.

Wildlife officials in the US are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town.

US rescuers today resumed the desperate search for dozens of campers still missing after flash floods swept through a busy Arkansas campsite, killing at least 17.

At least 16 people were killed when floodwater tore through a campsite in Arkansas, US officials said today.

Tornadoes ripping through central Arkansas have killed at least three people, injured 25 others and destroyed several homes, authorities said today.

The main suspect in the murders of four US police officers shot as they sat in a coffee shop was gunned down as he hid in a house today.

US medical disciplinary hearings will be under police guard today after a car bomb attack left the panel’s chief fighting for his life.

A previously unknown fault in eastern Arkansas could trigger a huge magnitude-7 earthquake with an epicentre near a major natural gas pipeline, a scientist in the US has warned.

Social workers are interviewing children who live at an evangelist group's headquarters after FBI agents and police raided the compound in a child porn probe.

POLICE were struggling yesterday to explain why a man described as a loner drove more than 50km to Arkansas’ Democratic Party headquarters and fatally shot its chairman — a close friend of Hillary and Bill Clinton — hours after getting fired from his job.

Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones are offering internet viewers lurid details of encounters they claim they had with former US president Bill Clinton for £1 (€1.2) a pop.

Fergal Rafferty helped his Sam Houston State University team to a second victory of the season as he secured an 11th-placed finish at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock First Tee Collegiate tournament.

ROY SCHEIDER, a one-time boxer whose broken nose and pugnacious acting style made him a star in The French Connection and who later uttered one of cinematic history’s most memorable lines in Jaws, has died. He was 75.

Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his role as the police chief in the blockbuster ‘Jaws’, has died, it was announced today.

Crews searched today for more victims of deadly tornadoes that killed at least 52 people and injured hundreds more as they tore across four US states, ripping off a shopping mall roof, demolishing mobile homes and blowing apart warehouses.

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

Authorities in the US were today searching for victims of tornadoes that killed at least 26 people across four states.

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.

SIX Catholic nuns have been excommunicated for heresy after refusing to leave a sect whose founder claims to be possessed by the Virgin Mary, a US diocese announced.

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Phil Mickelson’s controversial participation in the EDS Byron Nelson Championship is not sitting well with many of his peers, particularly Robert Allenby.

Phil Mickelson will compete in the EDS Byron Nelson Championship today despite missing yesterday’s pre-tournament pro-am.

US federal emergency officials are directing hurricane-aid supplies to areas where hey aren’t needed, according to an Air Force official, causing delays that have left international aid shipments for Hurricane Katrina victims sitting at an Air Force base in Arkansas.

Fire ripped through a mobile home in a hamlet outside Little Rock, Arkansas, killing at least six people, including five children.

BOTH Presidents Bush, rock stars and ordinary admirers of Bill Clinton turned out yesterday to pay homage to the former president at the opening of the Clinton Presidential Centre in Arkansas.

Amy Lee of the Grammy-winning rock band Evanescence has returned home for the final show of the band's latest tour.

Police in the US have linked the death of a Briton to a mysterious box of venomous snakes.

John Kerry’s growing string of wins is persuading party leaders to look for ways to bring the Democratic presidential primary season to a quick close.

THE Southern-white-trash genre is alive and unwell in the hands of Billy Bob Thornton, who attempts to pay homage to his native Arkansas in the messy, occasionally sweet, mostly revolting Daddy and Them.

An airliner was diverted to Fort Smith, Arkansas after four passengers behaved strangely on the flight, including at least three who locked themselves in a lavatory, possibly shaving their body hair.

A woman who accused Bill Clinton of making a sexual advance towards her is suing a property tycoon she says promised her riches to drop a lawsuit against Clinton, but never paid up.