THE mother of a young Irishman who was shot and killed last week by police in the US is travelling to Oregon to meet with authorities there.

The mother of a young Irishman who was shot and killed by police last week in the US is travelling to Oregon to meet with Marion County District Attorney Walt Beglau.

Relatives of an Irishman killed by police in the US state of Oregon viewed the body and said he was shot at least seven times.

A pregnant bank cashier lost the twins she was carrying when she was shot in an Indianapolis bank robbery, a US official said today.

There is “no basis in reality” for film star Wesley Snipes’s claims that he cannot get a fair trial on tax evasion charges because of racial prejudice, US federal prosecutors said today.

Allegations of voter intimidation and problems with electronic voting machines hampered the crucial US midterm elections today as Americans went to the polls in the battle for control of Congress.

Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts in today’s US elections, delaying voters in several states and forcing some to use paper ballots instead.

A Scotsman seen driving down a US motorway with a woman’s legs dangling outside his rented Jaguar no longer faces kidnapping charges.

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with making an e-mail threat against President George W Bush in a misspelled message that said: "Im going to kill you".