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Crime is on the decrease. But there's one exception
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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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Chicago police can't find any video of attack on Empire actor
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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
A secret tunnel leading to a Florida bank stumps the FBI
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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.

'That was nothing, she's copped worse than that': Mum blames ex-partner for toddler's death
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'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
Three charged over shooting at Port Kennedy house on Australia Day long weekend
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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
Man charged after cocaine, knuckle dusters and ammunition found in home
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
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Suspected murder-suicide after man and woman die in Rockhampton

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
Parents at the bedside of Canberra hunger striker
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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
'El Chapo' decided 'who lives and who dies' as drug boss, US jury told
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'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
Cop that: ‘D---head’ cyclists in viral video were off-duty policemen
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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
Russian senator arrested in Parliament in murder probe
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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