FEDERAL and state investigators were trying to determine yesterday why a man took his eight-year-old daughter up in a small plane and then crashed it into his former mother-in-law’s home, killing the little girl and himself.

INVESTIGATORS yesterday scoured hundreds of miles of a US highway for clues to a killer after two sniper attacks within hours of each other left one man dead, another wounded and four vehicles covered with bullet holes.

Investigators in Indiana scoured hundreds of miles of highway for clues to a killer after two sets of sniper attacks within hours of each other left one man dead and another wounded.

A tornado with winds of more than 158mph has torn a path of devastation through western Kentucky and southern Indiana as people slept, killing at least 22, smashing dozens of mobile homes and reducing entire blocks of buildings to rubble.