A man shot dead three people in Pennsylvania after confronting his wife about custody arrangements for their daughter.

A pilot was killed when a small plane crashed on the front lawn of an empty house in rural north-eastern Ohio.

Ohio has executed Jeffrey Lundgren, a cult leader who was convicted of shooting and killing a family of five outside Cleveland in 1989.

A US cult leader sentenced to death for killing a family of five was scheduled to be executed today after losing one of his final appeals.

A US Catholic school principal has resigned after acknowledging to police that he kissed the feet of three teenage students to make good on a bet.