JAMES Vincent McMorrow thought he would breeze his way to the top. He didn’t and is endlessly grateful.

Delia O’Callaghan spent 15 years building a successful life in the US but one day found herself behind bars. Colette Sheridan hears how she drew from her experience for her new book.

More than 100 inmates have married at a Mexican border prison in a collective ceremony meant to give their families legal rights for visits and for court proceedings.

Hawaii and other parts of the Pacific were braced for a destructive tsunami today caused by the massive Japanese earthquake.

A 12-year-old boy shot and killed his mother after an argument, police in Arizona said today.

Prosecutors in California are to review evidence before deciding whether to charge a 12-year-old boy whose play with matches started a blaze that ripped through nearly 60 square miles and destroyed 21 homes.

Six people were killed when severe US storms spawned a tornado that struck a small Texas community near the Mexican border, officials said.

US President George Bush today signed a bill authorising 700 miles of new fencing along the US-Mexico border, hoping to give Republican candidates a pre-election platform for asserting they are tough on illegal immigration.

President George Bush is to send as many as 6,000 National Guard troops to the US border with Mexico to help stop the flood of illegal immigrants.

In a move designed to win over support for US immigration reform from get-tough conservatives, President George Bush is to announce a plan to send thousands of National Guard troops to help secure the Mexican border.

A CUBAN family who desperately tried to make it to the United States by turning their car into a boat, has finally made it — on foot.

Ash fell on the beach like snow as California’s deadliest outbreak of fires in more than a decade destroyed more than 1,100 homes, killed at least 15 people and consumed land from south of the Mexican border to the suburbs north of Los Angeles.

FBI agent David Rupert told the Special Criminal Court today that he scouted the US/Mexican border as a possible entry point to the United States for the alleged Real IRA leader Michael Mc Kevitt.