A person who killed US political activist Charlie Kirk is believed to have jumped off a roof and fled after firing a shot, authorities say.
Staff Writers
Mark David Chapman will continue serving his life sentence after being denied parole yet again for the murder of former Beatle John Lennon.
A woman who beat her boyfriend to death using an array of objects in an ‘uncontrolled rage’ - potentially over hours - is appealing her sentence.
Rebecca Le May
Amid calls for even tougher weapons laws following the stabbing deaths of two boys in Melbourne, a criminologist says ‘symbolic’ crackdowns will not end knife crime.
Blair Jackson
A gunman is on the run after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in a shooting that's drawn renewed attention to political violence in the US.
Andrew Hay and Brad Brooks
A woman has been charged with the stabbing murder of her partner in Baldivis.
Caleb Runciman
A New South Wales man has been charged after a horrific crosswalk crash that left an elderly woman with serious injuries in Albany on Wednesday afternoon.
Cameron Newbold
A university museum "inconceivably" kept autopsy remains for teaching and research without the permission of family and loved ones.
Ethan James
Child abuse squad detectives are searching for a man as they investigate the sexual assault of a teenager in the Perth CBD.
An Australian mass murderer, jailed until he can no longer “do harm”, has had his latest bid seeking compensation over alleged army abuse rejected.
Liam Beatty
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has failed in a fresh attempt to block his extradition to face charges in the United States.
Charlotte Graham-McLay
Disturbing allegations have emerged about a Department of Communities employee charged with sex offences involving a teenager in his care as it was revealed police also raised concerns he had bikie connections.
Drums are beating louder for broader search powers to curb knife crime after two fatal stabbings as a government insists state laws are effective.
Allanah Sciberras and Callum Godde
Police have released CCTV footage of hooded offenders targeting a home in an anti-Semitic attack earlier this year.
Emma Kirk
A woman with a disability who was killed by her "pure evil" partner in a brutal bashing was barely recognisable afterwards, her daughter says.
Adelaide Lang
Negligent manslaughter charges have been laid against two police officers after a man died following his arrest in a car park.
Rachael Ward
Two police officers have been charged with negligent manslaughter more than a year after a man died during an arrest.
The alleged leader of a sprawling illegal tobacco empire has been charged by police following a major law enforcement operation.
Former AFL player and anti-racism advocate Nicky Winmar is facing multiple assault charges over two separate incidents.
Tara Cosoleto
A Geraldton man has been charged with a string of child sex abuse offences after he allegedly used social media to arrange meet-ups with children overseas.
A man whose body was discovered in a forest has been identified just hours after police released CCTV footage in a public appeal for help.
Andrew Hedgman
The squalid conditions that Dezi Freeman and his family lived in at the time of the fatal shooting of two police officers have been revealed.
Alexandra Feiam
A former AFL umpire has appeared in court alongside three other men accused of corrupt betting on Brownlow medals.
The father of a teen charged with terrorism offences, after he was allegedly caught with bomb-making chemicals, sobbed in court as his son was given bail.
Fraser Barton and Laine Clark
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