Richard Kuklinski, a notorious Mafia hitman known as “the Iceman” who claimed to have killed more than 100 people and was the subject of several books and two cable television documentaries, has died.

Women in Trenton, New Jersey, who take off their clothes for a living apparently want to keep strip clubs shrouded in veils of cigarette smoke.

THE US state governor forced to resign after having an adulterous gay love affair with a former adviser was being threatened with blackmail, it emerged yesterday.

A US state governor was forced to resign after having an adulterous gay love affair with a former adviser who threatened to blackmail him, it emerged today.

Postal workers have begun moving back into Washington’s main mail centre, more than two years after anthrax-laced letters killed two workers.

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.

Two workers have been killed in a blast at an oil depot on New York’s Staten Island which occurred as a petrol barge was being unloaded.

The man who was part-owner of the blue Chevrolet Caprice believed to have been used in the Washington sniper attacks is fully cooperating with the authorities, his lawyer said.

Tens of thousands of letters mailed around the US could have picked up trace amounts of anthrax while passing through a contaminated postal centre, the nation’s top anthrax investigator has said.

The FBI believes an anthrax-laced letter to US Senator Patrick Leahy, belatedly found last week, was written by the same person who sent a tainted letter to Senator Tom Daschle last month.

As lawmakers take a Thanksgiving holiday week break, two of the three Senate office buildings in Washington are set to reopen after being swept for anthrax contamination. The third will remain closed.

Anthrax has been posted to a second US senator the FBI have confirmed.

FBI agents hunting the source of the anthrax letters that have killed four people have searched two houses, including one owned by a city health commissioner .

A mail room in the Veterans Affairs Medical Centre is to be fumigated after testing positive for trace amounts of anthrax.

Investigators have found magazines relating to germ warfare at the home of two men arrested soon after the US terror attacks.

Three letters contaminated with anthrax all were dated September 11, the same day as the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and contained anti-American and anti-Israel messages, US officials said.

More than 2,000 postal workers were tonight awaiting the results of anthrax tests after a colleague in Washington DC was diagnosed with the most serious form of the infection.

FBI detectives believe they have found the anthrax-laced letter which infected a worker at the New York Post newspaper, it was revealed today.