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Six youths arrested after they allegedly escaped from the Malmsbury youth justice centre have appeared before a children's court, charged with carjacking and accused of threatening to kill a motorist.
A five-year-old girl spent more than 30 terrifying minutes in the back seat of a car driven at high speeds by a drug-fuelled thief, a court has heard.
A truck driver charged over a road crash that killed an off-duty policewoman has been granted bail despite police concerns he is suicidal and might try to flee overseas.
A former disability support worker sprayed petrol over a shop attendant and threatened to set him alight during an armed robbery allegedly committed a week after the accused man became a grandfather,a court has heard.
Three people died from drug overdoses across Melbourne at the weekend, a court has heard, as police investigate the distribution of a bad batch of ecstasy.
Lake Gladman is usually a tranquil place, but on this day it became a frantic scene of chaos.
A Melbourne imam has fronted court charged with performing the forced marriage of a girl under the age of 16 to a 34-year-old man.
Greg Kasarik is a drug user who is probably too honest for his own good.
A man accused of stealing two Mercedes-Benz cars is alleged to have twice shot a friend following an argument over one of the vehicles.
A woman charged with murder over the death of a man fatally hit by a car outside a kindergarten has appeared in court sporting a blackened eye.
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