A US teenager charged with killing a football referee during a game pleaded guilty yesterday in a case that brought new attention to the issue of violence in sport.

A SALT Lake City woman who was in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long fingernails has had them broken off in a car accident.

A vase given to Adolf Hitler has been turned over to US investigators rounding up a collection of Nazi artefacts stolen from a Utah storage unit.

A Utah couple who allegedly chained the man’s 12-year-old son in the basement for two months – freeing him only to eat and go to school – has been charged with child abuse.

AN 11-year-old girl, who was raped and beaten with a hammer after being snatched from her bedroom, was in critical condition yesterday following nine hours of surgery.