Two boys have been electrocuted by power lines downed during violent weather in Texas, officials said.

Firefighters have rescued a cow from a swimming pool outside a home in Oklahoma City.

A massive, week-long manhunt for a suspect in a string of violent crimes, including the killing of two relatives, the shooting of two police officers and multiple carjackings, ended on Sunday evening in a police chase and shootout.

One of Oklahoma's largest earthquakes on record has rattled other parts of the Midwest in the US, from Nebraska to North Texas.

The drought is over for Cleveland, and the debate is over as well.

A professional ballroom dancer who lost her left leg in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings has said conquering the course on a carbon-fibre blade was a giant leap forward towards reclaiming her life.

From the air above a small Oklahoma town, the 300 steel oil storage tanks that dot the landscape appear filled to the brim, their floating lids bobbing atop more than 65m barrels of oil.

Presidential hopeful refuses to condemn supremacist’s backing

Eleven of the nearly four dozen people injured when a car careened into a crowd watching a Oklahoma State University homecoming parade at the weekend were children, police said, in addition to a toddler who died of his injuries.

Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson has vowed to fight for the next 40 days to save the life of a US death row inmate whose execution was postponed at the last minute.

ENGLAND: A dim-witted shoplifter was caught after going to a police station to complain about the circulation of his CCTV image.

A US jury yesterday sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for helping to carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264 at the world-renowned race. It took 15 hours to reach a decision.

USA: An Oklahoma school expressed concern and disappointment over a video that went viral showing students in a biology class performing a choreographed dance routine with dead cats.

Tornadoes raked America’s southern Plains region, overturning cars on an Oklahoma City motorway and destroying dozens of homes.

Two decades have passed since Timothy McVeigh set off a truck bomb outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, but the memory remains vivid for Tonya McCabe, who sat on the jury that sentenced him to die.

For years, conditions inside the United States’ only federal supermax facility were largely a mystery. But a landmark lawsuit is finally revealing the harsh world within, writes Mark Binelli

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went on trial for his life in the Boston Marathon bombing with his own lawyer bluntly telling the jury he committed the crime. But she argued he had fallen under the influence of his older brother.

Oklahoma’s last execution went so badly that the state tried to cancel it before it was over. With the inmate writhing while the lethal drugs seeped into his body, his executioners drew the viewing gallery curtains, concealing what the warden later described as “a bloody mess”.

The ex-wife of multi-billionaire energy tycoon Harold Hamm plans to appeal a court ruling that awarded her nearly $1bn (€790,000m) in a divorce settlement, according to her attorney.

WHEN an armed intruder jumped the fence and penetrated deep into the White House, it provided a field day for cartoonists and some members of the House of Representatives - who turned Julia Pierson, the hapless Secret Service director, into a figure of ridicule.

A man shot after beheading a woman and attacking another at a food processing plant from which he had just been sacked has regained consciousness, police say.

A man sacked from an Oklahoma food processing plant beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking another worker when he was shot by one of the bosses.

A woman has been beheaded by her co-worker at a US food distribution centre.

Yes, that really is a dummy!

Ed Power talks to American songwriter Samantha Crain about her work

Voted by E Entertainment Television as ‘the most shocking moment in Hollywood history’, John Daly looks back at the OJ Simpson trial, the first televised celebrity murder case.

Aidan O’Brien has described Australia as “a Derby horse we’ve not had the like of before” ahead of his tilt at the Investec-sponsored Classic at Epsom on June 7.

The problems that arose during the attempted execution of an inmate in the US could hasten the end of capital punishment, says Heide Brandes in Oklahoma City.

Aidan O’Brien is set to throw down a strong challenge to John Gosden and Kingman by running both Australia and War Command in the Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday.

Ger Lyons is looking forward to seeing what Obliterator can do when he starts his three-year-old campaign in the ebm-papst Feilden Stakes at Newmarket today.

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A Texas girl on a dream skydiving trip to celebrate her 16th birthday narrowly escaped death on her first jump when her parachute malfunctioned at 3,500ft and she crashed to the ground.

A 16-year-old girl has amazed doctors by surviving a fall of more than 3,000 feet in a horrific skydiving accident.

Criquette Head-Maarek has confirmed her incredible Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine Treve will stay in training as a four-year-old to defend her Longchamp crown.

Geoffrey Chaucer provided Aidan O’Brien with his thirteenth victory in the Group 2 Juddmonte Beresford Stakes when getting the better of stable-companion Oklahoma City in yesterday’s feature at the Curragh.

The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due out tomorrow.

Firefighters are dealing with a blaze at a manufacturing site north-west of Oklahoma City after a series of explosions.

The shocking attack on a child and her mother at Dublin zoo this week is not the first time lives have been put in danger in zoos across the world.

Riley Cooper did his growing up in Oklahoma City and Clearwater, Florida before playing at one of the American south’s college football behemoths, the University of Florida.

Chicquita will be aimed at the Prix Vermeille and possibly the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe after surviving a dramatic drift to her left to land the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Saturday night.

Australia got off the mark at the second attempt with victory in the Darley European Breeders Fund Maiden at the Curragh.

An impressive all-the-way win for Oklahoma City proved the highlight of a spectacular 191/1 five-timer for Aidan O’Brien in Naas last night, four of his winners ridden by his son Joseph and the fifth by his younger daughter Ana.

The five-runner Tipper Road Race, the last on the card, is easily the most interesting contest at Naas tonight.

The deadly tornado that struck near Oklahoma City had a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles and was the second top-of-the-scale EF5 twister to hit the area in less than two weeks, the National Weather Service said.