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Both engines on a light plane that careened into an Essendon shopping centre killing all five people on board appeared to have been working before impact, a crash report has found.
A man who fled a police pursuit and allegedly tried to drown a member of the dog squad was arrested after he attend hospital with severe bite marks.
Fake cancer guru Belle Gibson, who is facing a possible $1 million fine after being found by a Federal Court judge to have "deliberately played" the Australian public, has been caught spruiking another fad diet and bragging about intestinal worms.
Police are hunting for a pack of masked bandits who used hammers to smash their way into a suburban jeweller as part of a daring daylight armed robbery.
Jomar Orton remembers two things about the night his mother was murdered, 25 years ago, in a Fitzroy massage parlour.
One Friday night, 25 years ago, a killer walks out the front door of a traditional Chinese massage parlour and on to busy Alexandra Parade in Fitzroy. The next day, two bodies are found handcuffed and mutilated in separate rooms of the small brick terrace building.
Cold calling salespeople who bullied a farming couple with one home printer into buying enough ink to last them nearly 1700 years acted illegally, a tribunal has found.
Grief-stricken family and friends have arrived at the funeral for Melbourne woman Karen Ristevski, at an Essendon church.
A bully with money woes threatened to kill a real estate agent with a loaded spear gun at an open for inspection after sending him menacing letters from a fictitious vigilante group.
Science is wrong, unicorns do exist. And they're on a spree of attempted smash and grabs in Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs.
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