A man who was arrested after investigators found a woman chained up on his property has admitted seven counts of murder over 13 years in South Carolina.

Two bodies found on the rural property of a South Carolina man linked to five other deaths were a couple who had a history of begging and had been buried there for nearly a year.

A third body has been found at the property of a South Carolina man linked to seven deaths and the kidnapping of a woman who was found chained inside a storage container.

A US basketball player, who was a leading force in the game in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s both as a coach and player, has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl he was coaching in his native South Carolina.