A 17-year-old boy snow-tubing down a New York street with friends has crashed into a light pole and died, police said.

The Wall Street executive accused of raping an Irish student at his luxury Hamptons rental home in August appeared briefly in court yesterday in Long Island.

KELVIN Mercer, aka Posdnuos, had no idea.

Those who took one look at Brittany Ozarowski had no doubt she was battling cancer.

A 13-year-old New York boy who played hockey growing up in Ireland can keep playing on the girls team at his school, at least for one more season.

He’s too good, and that’s too bad.

A court battle is looming in the US after a 13-year-old boy who learned to play hockey in Ireland was banned from playing the sport at school – for the girls’ team.

The latest two sets of remains found along a New York beach highway are human, US authorities said today, bringing to 10 the number of bodies found in a search for victims of a suspected serial killer.

AN Irishman is leading the investigation into a suspected serial killer following the discovery of eight bodies buried on a Long Island beach in the north-eastern state of New York.

The number of victims of a suspected serial killer on New York's Long Island has doubled in the past week after the discovery of three more corpses along a remote beach highway.

50 Cent has denied reports he has attempted to "stall" the police investigation into a suspicious fire at his New York home.

Two teenagers have been charged with conspiring to attack a suburban New York high school on the anniversary of the Columbine attacks after a chilling journal and videotape surfaced in which one teen identifies several potential victims by name, authorities said.

Sewage treatment plant workers discovered a baby’s arm, and US authorities said the remains could have come from any of 21 communities near Boston, Massachusetts.

A lieutenant colonel in the US Army is among 24 men arrested for allegedly soliciting sex from children on the internet.

A high school caretaker in the US has been accused of secretly making hundreds of videotapes of a girls’ changing room and a women teacher’s lavatory over nearly 20 years.

A six-year-old girl may have been strangled when her family’s golden retriever playfully grabbed her scarf and dragged her around the yard, authorities in Manorville, New York, said today.

A teenager in the US charged with killing and dismembering his mother and the 50-year-old paedophile accused of influencing him has pleaded not guilty to murder and conspiracy.

A teenager in the US charged with killing and dismembering his mother and the 50-year-old paedophile accused of influencing him pleaded not guilty to murder and conspiracy today.

An electrician who moved to Britain from America with the widow of a murdered millionaire bought several stun guns like those used to torture the wealthy investment banker before he was killed, a court heard.

A 17-year-old tortoise called Max Schell has been summoned for jury service in Massachusetts.