A bomb threat led to the evacuation of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

Olympic organisers howl with laughter at girl who cried wolf

JK Brackens shocked fancied holders Loughmore-Castleiney in the Mid Tipperary SFC final at Templetuohy yesterday and were full value for their 2-10 to 1-9 win.

A long-serving county councillor yesterday succeeded in having a drink-driving conviction overturned.

Two injury-time points gave Clonmel Commercials a 1-8 to 1-6 victory over great rivals Clonmel Óg in the Tipperary SFC at Monroe on Saturday evening.

A serving county councillor who had headed a Joint Policing Committee was yesterday convicted of a drink driving charge.

Children who escaped the Connecticut massacre are returning to classes today in a refurbished school named after their old one.

Students returned to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown for the first time since a gunman’s rampage killed 26 people in an elementary school, altering the gun control debate in Washington and forcing a retailer to pull guns from shelves.

Just days after the deaths of 26 people, including 20 children, at a school in Connecticut, a second campus in the state is in lockdown.

A mournful Barack Obama has told Newtown the United States is failing to keep its children safe, pledging that change must come after an elementary school massacre left 20 children dead.

Two women, believed to be the world’s oldest and tallest, have died.

A woman listed as the world's oldest person has died in a Georgia nursing home at 116.

LAST year’s captain Willie Ryan is one of six players axed from Liam Sheedy’s Tipperary senior hurling championship panel ahead of their big championship clash with Cork at Páirc Uí Chaoimh at the end of next month.

TIPPERARY hurlers suffered a devastating pre-championship blow yesterday when Paul Kelly suffered a broken ankle on club duty with Mullinahone.

THE tradition of intercounty underage hurling featuring heavily on the GAA agenda for the last weekend in August is maintained over the next two days.

A promotions firm once headed by legendary showband singer Joe Dolan has been slapped with a €3.8m bill for unpaid tax, it emerged today.

A settlement has been reached in the legal fight over seven nude and semi-nude photographs taken during Marilyn Monroe’s Last Sitting in 1962.

Anna Nicole Smith’s estranged mother and her ex-boyfriend both testified that the starlet said she wanted to be buried in California, not the plots in the Bahamas or Texas that have been the focus of the fierce week-long legal debate.

Oil and gas exploration company Tullow Oil has announced a gas discovery in its Monroe exploration well in the North Sea.

Tullow Oil has announced a gas discovery with the Monroe exploration well in the North Sea.

A former employee streaked through a busy Washington state fair wearing only a tank top and was hit by a train as he tried to escape from the police.