Crime
Jayme Closs will receive $US25,000 in reward money after kidnapped teen freed herself
Hormel Foods, a Fortune 500 company based in Minnesota, put up the money last October, doubling the reward promised by the FBI after 13-year-old Jayme Closs disappeared on October 15.
- by Isaac Stanley-Becker
Latest
USA
Hammer attack in New York leaves three Asian men dead
A fatal hammer attack at a Chinese restaurant in New York City is being investigated as a possible hate crime targeting Asian men.
Boyfriend arrested six years after Gold Coast cheerleader's fatal fall
It will be alleged Dan Shearin, now 45, threw his 21-year-old girlfriend off an 11th-floor apartment in Southport on January 29, 2013.
- by Toby Crockford
Exclusive
Crime
Police investigate more abuse claims at The Armidale School
A prestigious NSW boarding school wracked by abuse claims is again at the centre of a police investigation into sexual assaults.
- by Angus Thompson
Crime
Windscreen smashed by potato cannon, six bags of spuds found nearby
In another potato cannon incident in the ACT, Josh Delaney's windscreen broke when it was hit by a potato fired from Adelaide Avenue.
- by Jasper Lindell & Steve Evans
Trio drive stolen car into motorcycle cop in Toowoomba, police allege
A man has allegedly driven a car directly into a policeman on a motorcycle, leaving the officer with a dislocated shoulder and other injuries.
- by Jocelyn Garcia
Crime
Former chief justice of South Korea arrested on case-rigging charges
Yang Sung-tae's arrest is expected to be followed by a formal indictment.
- by Choe Sang-Hun
Crime
'A cowardly and unprovoked crime': Police hunt for Sydney man's killers
Police are appealing for witnesses after the body of a man was found in Sydney's southwest.
- by Ben Weir
Drugs
Alleged drug kingpin extradited from Serbia over $500m cocaine shipment
Builder Tristan Waters spent more than a year in a Serbian jail, accused of importing 1.28 tonnes of cocaine hidden in pre-fabricated steel.
- by Kate McClymont
Aged care
Nurse charged with sexual assault after incapacitated woman gave birth
Investigators arrested 36-year-old Nathan Sutherland just hours after he was compelled by a court order to give a DNA sample.
- by Terry Tang
Courts
Guilty plea to supply of 213 MDMA capsules at music festival
In the days before he arranged for the supply of hundreds of MDMA capsules at a Sydney festival, Julian Martusciello told the designated carrier of the drugs she would need a "big bra."
- by Lucy Cormack