Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Tornadoes and storms ripping through several central states in the US have killed two people and injured dozens, officials say.

Tornadoes and storms ripping through several central states in the US have killed two people and injured dozens, officials say.

A patient at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the first case of the disease to be diagnosed in the United States.

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Schools in Texas have cancelled classes and shoppers have stocked up on milk, pet food and other supplies to prepare for the wintry blast which has brought freezing temperatures, ice and snow to much of the nation.

ENGLAND: Sizzling summer temperatures have not stopped the opening of a Christmas shop.

A demolition company has mistakenly torn down a three-bedroom home in north Texas rather than the condemned building next door.

The authorities allege a 13-year-old North Texas boy facing a murder charge used a bowling ball to fatally beat a five-year-old boy.

An assistant district attorney has been shot dead as he walked toward his workplace at a North Texas county courthouse.

A North Texas man has been freed more than two decades after he was wrongly convicted of raping a 14-year-old Fort Worth girl.

Zach Johnson survived a two-stroke penalty on the final hole to win the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial by one stroke from Jason Dufner.

Tornadoes hit Texas yesterday, destroying a wing of a nursing home, peeling roofs from dozens of homes and sending lorry trailers into the air.

A line of violent thunderstorms roared across middle America, killing six people in two states, with several tornadoes touching down in Oklahoma and high winds pounding rural Kansas.

CHRISTINA Aguilera set social networks buzzing when she fluffed a line as she belted out the national anthem at the start of the US Super Bowl.

Christina Aguilera set social networks buzzing when she fluffed a line as she belted out the national anthem at the start of the US Super Bowl.

GREEN BAY PACKERS coach Mike McCarthy has pledged to bring the Vince Lombardi trophy “back where it belongs” tomorrow night.

Tropical Storm Hermine was making its way north today after drenching parts of north-eastern Mexico and south Texas.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones last night welcomed the opportunity to host world championship boxing at the new Cowboys Stadium after Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey’s welterweight clash was confirmed for March 13 in Texas.

The fireball that blazed across the Texas sky and sparked numerous weekend calls to police was an identified flying object, it emerged today.

A Texas school district will allow teachers and staff members to carry concealed firearms to protect against school shootings when classes begin this month, provided the gun-toting employees follow certain requirements.

For three days, two-year-old Kevin Brown’s chubby bare feet took him through acres of rugged North Texas US pastures of grass taller than his head and around several ponds where bobcats and coyotes roam.

Three people were killed and at least six injured when tornadoes moved through north Texas.

Just two days before Columbia’s mysterious break-up during its fiery descent, a safety engineer warned by e-mail about risks of “catastrophic” failures from extreme heat causing the shuttle’s tyres to burst inside the spacecraft, Nasa has disclosed.

INVESTIGATORS were last night focusing on Columbia’s left wing as they tried to determine what destroyed the space shuttle, killing all seven astronauts on board.

Space shuttle Columbia apparently disintegrated in flames over Texas today minutes before it was to land in Florida.