Two men have been charged over a shooting at an Ohio fraternity house that killed one student and injured 11 people at a party.

A SHOOTING at a fraternity house near the Youngstown State University campus in Ohio has left one person dead and 11 others injured, police said yesterday.

Banjaxed Girl showed there are few tougher staying mares in the jumping world when putting a rare flop behind her with a convincing success in the 32Red.com Mares' Hurdle at Sandown today.

The execution of a death-row inmate in the US has been postponed – after he overdosed on pills.

Vincent O’Brien County Hurdle possible Inventor could head a team of at least three for owner Jon Glews at the Cheltenham Festival.

Peddlers Cross is set to defend his unbeaten record in the Rossington Main Novices’ Hurdle at Haydock on Saturday week.

Boxing promoter Bob Arum has handed John Duddy a lifeline to a world title shot after putting the Irish contender on the Miguel Cotto-Michael Jennings undercard later this month.

Bernard Hopkins clinched a dominant unanimous-decision victory over previously unbeaten Kelly Pavlik last night.

KELLY PAVLIK has coped uneasily with the fame which has been foisted upon him since the Youngstown, Ohio hero dethroned Jermain Taylor to claim the world middleweight title last February.

AT FIRST glance, 2007 was the year that sport was beset by scandal, controversy and pain. Again.

A US cult leader sentenced to death for killing a family of five was scheduled to be executed today after losing one of his final appeals.

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said he bagged a goose on a hunting trip in Ohio today, but his real target was the voters who may harbour doubts about him.

THOUSANDS of newly released personnel files show that the Archdiocese of Boston went to great lengths to hide priests accused of abuse, including clergy who allegedly snorted cocaine and had sex with girls aspiring to be nuns.