An argument between parents and a coach at a junior football league practice in Kansas escalated into a fight involving gunfire.

Moments after touching down, the pilot of a Boeing 747 cargo jet seemed confused in his exchanges with air traffic controllers.

90 years of looking for secrets in wrong place

Thousands of people are gathering today for nationwide rallies in the US.

Dozens of tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa overnight and one twister killed at least five people early yesterday as storm sirens failed to sound in an Oklahoma town and caught people unaware.

A line of violent thunderstorms roared across middle America, killing six people in two states, with several tornadoes touching down in Oklahoma and high winds pounding rural Kansas.

A US federal grand jury is investigating whether last year’s murder of a Kansas abortion doctor was connected to a broader case involving radical anti-abortion activists, a federal law enforcement official familiar with the case said.

An airman in Kansas has been charged with assault and related crimes for having unprotected sex without telling his partners he was HIV positive, the Air Force said today.

A FANATIC who murdered a doctor who performed late-term abortions was sentenced to life in prison and must serve 50 years — the maximum allowed by US law — before he can apply for parole.

Fifty-one-year-old Scott Roeder has been convicted of the murder of one of the only doctors in the US who offered late-term abortions.

Lawyers prosecuting a man who gunned down a controversial pro-abortion doctor had to get through the first day of evidence without mentioning the word “abortion” in front of jurors.

Cameron Diaz is "very excited" about teaming up with Tom Cruise again.

A clinic run by murdered late-term abortion doctor George Tiller will shut forever, his family said.

A man suspected of shooting dead a well-known doctor in Kansas who performed late-term abortions was in jail today as investigators investigated his background, including the extent of his connections to anti-abortion groups.

US president Barack Obama said today he was shocked and outraged at the murder of a top doctor who performed late-term abortions.

Connections of Wichita Lineman are hoping top-weight Notre Pere takes his chance in the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse tomorrow.

A 35-YEAR-OLD woman who sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time he called police had a phobia about leaving the bathroom, the boyfriend said.

Wichita Lineman, trained by Jonjo O'Neill and ridden by Tony McCoy, won the Brit Insurance Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.

BTK suspect Dennis Rader pleaded guilty yesterday to 10 counts of first-degree murder, admitting in a chillingly matter-of-fact voice to a series of slayings that terrorised the city beginning in the 1970s.

The serial killer known as BTK today pleaded guilty to 10 counts of murder, admitting in a chillingly matter-of-fact voice to a series of slayings that terrorised a US city for years.

More than 30 years after the first killings that began a reign of terror in a US city, the man accused of being the so-called “BTK strangler” is expected to plead not guilty this week.

Dennis Rader, the churchgoing family man accused of leading a double life as the BTK serial killer, was charged with ten murders today.

The man suspected of 10 murders attributed to the "BTK" serial killer confessed to at least six of the killings, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation said today.

THE 31-year manhunt for a serial killer who taunted police with letters about his crimes ended over the weekend when the authorities finally caught up with the man who called himself BTK. He was linked with at least 10 murders.

A manhunt for a Kansas serial killer who for 31 years taunted police with letters about his crimes ended last night when authorities said they finally caught up with the BTK killer and linked him to at least 10 murders.

A SERIAL killer who terrified a US city in the 1970s appears to have resurfaced and laid claim to an eighth victim.

There has been further bad news on the jobs front in Northern Ireland with the news 135 people will be made redundant in Co Antrim.