“You had a smile for everyone, hands for boxing and a face for the ladies. We can’t picture our family without you.”

A five-year-old child was killed and at least 19 other people injured when a powerful storm with tornadoes ripped through north-east Nebraska, hospital and emergency officials said.

A FIVE-YEAR-OLD girl who was abducted and murdered in California has been remembered as "America's little girl" at an emotional funeral attended by thousands of mourners.

MOMENTS after a factory worker was charged with murdering five-year-old Samantha Runnion, the lead prosecutor provided a stern assessment of the suspect's future if he is convicted.

A CHILD'S body that resembles an abducted five-year-old American girl was found in a rugged, heavily forested area of a neighbouring county, but officials couldn't immediately say if it was that of missing Samantha Runnion.