Crime
Analysis
Analysis
Crime is on the decrease. But there's one exception
The murder rate has halved since 2000, but sexual assault has refused to budge.
- by Jenna Price
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USA
Chicago police can't find any video of attack on Empire actor
Jussie Smollett and his manager told detectives they were talking on the phone at the time of the attack but have declined to turn over phone records.
- by Don Babwin
USA
A secret tunnel leading to a Florida bank stumps the FBI
In what sounds like the plot from a bank heist movie, the FBI is on the case of a tunnel that leads to a bank.
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Crime
'That was nothing, she's copped worse than that': Mum blames ex-partner for toddler's death
A mother giving evidence at her ex-boyfriend's murder trial has denied being the culprit, saying she had never bitten, whipped or carried out other violent attacks on her two-year-old daughter.
- by Sarah McPhee
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Crime
Three charged over shooting at Port Kennedy house on Australia Day long weekend
The three men were refused bail and will reappear in Rockingham Magistrates Court on Friday, February 1.
- by staff writers
Gold Coast
Man charged after cocaine, knuckle dusters and ammunition found in home
Liquids and tablets, believed to be performance and image enhancing drugs were also found in the Gold Coast home after police conducted a house raid on Thursday.
- by Jocelyn Garcia
Suspected murder-suicide after man and woman die in Rockhampton
The bodies of an anaesthetist and his partner were found in the bedroom of a Rockhampton home on Monday.
- by Toby Crockford
Hospitals
Parents at the bedside of Canberra hunger striker
The parents of Canberra hunger striker Isa Islam have flown in from country Western Australia to be at his hospital bedside.
- by Peter Brewer
Mexico
'El Chapo' decided 'who lives and who dies' as drug boss, US jury told
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was someone who decided "who lives and who dies," a prosecutor said in closing arguments of the drug kingpin's trial.
- by Brendan Pierson
Cycling
Cop that: ‘D---head’ cyclists in viral video were off-duty policemen
If you’re going to break the law, it’s probably best not to do it in front of police officers.
- by Andrew Pearson
Crime
Russian senator arrested in Parliament in murder probe
Rauf Arashukov is accused of ordering two murders in 2010 in his home region of Karachayevo-Cherkessiya in Southern Russia.
- by Jake Rudnitsky & Stepan Kravchenko