About 170 members of rival motorcycle gangs have been charged with engaging in organised crime following a shootout at a Texas restaurant in which nine people were killed and 18 injured.

Texas police say a weekend shootout involving rival motorcycle gangs that killed nine people and injured 18 apparently began with a parking dispute and someone running over a gang member’s foot.

About 170 motorcycle gang members charged with engaging in organised crime are each being held on a million-dollar bond (€883,000) in the wake of a deadly shootout in Texas, and authorities say capital murder charges are expected.

A Texas city was under near-lockdown today after a shoot-out between rival motorcycle gangs at a restaurant left nine bikers dead.

A shoot-out among rival motorcycle gangs at a popular Texas restaurant left nine bikers dead and 18 injured, and sent panicked patrons and bystanders fleeing for safety.

One month after a fire triggered a massive blast at a Texas fertiliser plant that killed 15 people, officials yesterday had to declare the cause of the blaze as “undetermined”.

A criminal investigation has been launched into the massive Texas fertiliser plant explosion that killed 14 people, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.

The damage to homes and businesses caused by an explosion at a Texas fertiliser plant has been estimated Wednesday to exceed 100 million US dollars (€49m), as crews continue to sift through a 90ft crater searching for answers.

After days of waiting, the first group of people who fled their homes when a fertiliser plant exploded in a blinding fireball are to be allowed to return.

Worshippers came in their hundreds to pray at a church service honouring the victims of the Texas fertiliser plant blast.

Rescue workers searched the smouldering ruins of a fertiliser plant for survivors of a monstrous explosion that levelled homes and businesses in every direction across the Texas prairie. As many as 15 people were feared dead and more than 160 others injured.

Police in Texas said that they are treating the scene of an explosion at a fertiliser plant as a crime scene.

Up to 15 people have been killed in an explosion at a fertiliser plant in Texas, police said today.

A number of people have been killed in a massive explosion at a fertiliser plant near Waco, Texas.

ESPN would never dare ask any of the top college football teams in the US to switch their game forward from Saturday, no matter how lucrative the television contract.

A Muslim soldier was stopped hours before completing a bomb he planned to detonate at a Texas restaurant full of US troops, federal prosecutors said today.

The bombing of the government building in Oslo has evoked memories of Timothy McVeigh’s attack on the Oklahoma City federal building 16 years ago.

IT wasn’t exactly a “where were you when Kennedy was shot?” moment was it?

A student wearing a dark suit and a ski mask and armed with an assault rifle began shooting at the University of Texas campus this morning before fleeing into a library and shooting himself dead.

A military psychiatrist went on the rampage at an army base in the US, shooting dead 13 and injuring dozens more.

A mass shooting at a military base in Texas has left seven people dead and 12 injured, according to reports.

Waving cardboard red, white and blue “W”s, thousands welcomed George Bush and his wife Laura to their post-presidential home in Texas.

Forecasters predicted more violent thunderstorms in the US over the weekend after two days of storms and flooding that left five people dead and one missing in central Texas.

A twin-engine Cessna crashed in a field near a Texas airport, killing all three people aboard, authorities said.

A prisoner in Texas committed suicide this morning in his death-row cell, less than 18 hours before he was scheduled to be executed, a prison official said.

Anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan said today that despite her overnight stay in hospital, the war protest activities will continue on land she bought near President George Bush’s Crawford ranch.

President George Bush begins a new schedule of hands-on diplomacy with Middle East leaders today.

ONE Russian journalist commenting on the TV coverage said that in the first two days Russians, who relied on television for their news, might have not even have known that hundreds of hostages were being held in Beslan.

HUNDREDS of people descended on the small town of Crawford, Texas, a few miles from US President George W Bush’s ranch - half to show their support and the other half to see the controversial documentary criticising his administration.

TWO artists who recreated Osama bin Laden’s house are on the shortlist of this year’s Turner Prize.

United States President George Bush gave his most candid speech yet about how religion helped rid him of heavy drinking.

Two-year-old Kimberly Martin fell asleep on a chapel bench during a rambling sermon about the end of the world.

The worst mass murderer in US history is due to die on Monday morning barring a last minute stay of execution.