A teenager driving a stolen car leads cops on a merry chase. Enter guy with truck.

It is public art made of private wishes.

The Irish immigrants who settled in Syracuse, New York’s Tipperary Hill and named it after the county they’d left behind were a notoriously sentimental crowd.

Crew members stranded on a tanker ship that ran aground in stormy seas off Sicily are being rescued by helicopter today.

The New York Police Department monitored Muslim students at universities far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, it has emerged.

More than four years after the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, the horrors of that day on the Virginia Tech campus are about to be relived in court.

AN UPSTATE New Yorker from Kerry has launched her campaign to become the first Irish-born Congresswoman in the US House of Representatives.

A MOTORCYCLIST participating in a protest ride against helmet laws in New York state died after he flipped over the bike’s handlebars and hit his head on the road.

IN THE heart of Upstate New York, where the accents and the temperatures begin to develop a more Canadian complexion, the Carrier Dome pops up out of the skyline of Syracuse’s southside, offering the prospect of some respite from the stubborn cold.

Justin Bieber fans looking forward to his performance at the New York State Fair are going to have to wait a bit longer.

A New York teenager is charged with murder after authorities say he beat a toddler to death because she had a potty-training accident.

Sunshine greeted residents of New York state in the United States today, giving crews a chance to haul away some of the eight feet of snow that has fallen in parts of the region during the past week.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, is due to depart for the United States today for his annual St Patrick's Day visit.

FORMER US President Bill Clinton is to undergo heart bypass surgery after suffering chest pains.

Former US President Bill Clinton is to undergo heart bypass surgery after complaining of mild chest pain and shortness of breath.

More than 70 illegal immigrants found near death in the Mediterranean were rescued yesterday, but several from the group may have died trying to reach Italy, police said.

Snow and freezing rain swept across wide swathes of the north-eastern United States, causing hundreds of traffic accidents in which at least four people died.

A RETIRED handyman who admitted keeping five women as sex slaves in an underground bunker in his back garden was jailed yesterday for a minimum of 18 years.

A retired handyman who admitted keeping five women as sex slaves in an underground bunker in his back garden was jailed today for a minimum of 18 years.

FBI agent David Rupert told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that he had discussed setting up an offshore bank off the Florida coast to launder crime money after his businesses in New York state had been seized by a bank because he defaulted on a loan.

A retired New York handyman today admitted holding five women captive as sex slaves in an underground bunker over a 15-year period.

A 16-YEAR-OLD who was held captive in a back yard “dungeon” and repeatedly raped was rescued after she was finally able to make a whispered phone call to her sister, police in New York state said yesterday.

A 16-year-old who was held captive in a back yard “dungeon” and repeatedly raped was rescued after she was finally able to make a whispered phone call to her sister, police in New York state said today.

Military officials in the United States were today investigating what caused a Black Hawk helicopter carrying 13 soldiers to crash during a training mission in upstate New York.

The first human clone is likely to be produced "very soon", according to an American scientist.