ANXIOUS evacuees across America clamoured to come home yesterday after their city was largely spared by Hurricane Gustav, but Mayor Ray Nagin warned they may have to wait in shelters and motels a few days longer.

Robert Charles Browne told investigators in Denver he used ether to knock out one woman he was trying to seduce, then “used an ice pick on her.”

ANOTHER round of volatile spring weather spread tornadoes and heavy rain across the US midwest and south yesterday as some communities were still trying to recover from the weekend twisters that killed 40 people.