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Search for man after targeted fight turns fatal

Search for man after targeted fight turns fatal

A manhunt is underway after a man and a woman were shot dead in an early-morning altercation in a suburban home.

'Overwhelming sadness' teen dies after snake bite

'Overwhelming sadness' teen dies after snake bite

'Overwhelming sadness' teen dies after snake bite

'Overwhelming sadness' teen dies after snake bite

Sixteen year old Beau Horan was bitten by a snake on Monday afternoon and died in hospital on Wednesday evening.

Driver locked up after facing families of five killed

Driver locked up after facing families of five killed

Driver locked up after facing families of five killed

Driver locked up after facing families of five killed

A dangerous driver who killed five people after ignoring police and warning signs is in jail after facing the families of his victims.

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'Don't blame you for hating me': speeding driver jailed

'Don't blame you for hating me': speeding driver jailed

A speeding driver who killed two people in a collision while on his way to a casino says he doesn't blame the families of the victims for hating him.

'Overwhelmed' family raise Laos tragedy target to $500k

'Overwhelmed' family raise Laos tragedy target to $500k

Laos media say eight men have been detained over tourist deaths, as the families of two Australians who died of suspected methanol poisoning lift funding goals.

Two-year-old girl dies after being found in parked car

Two-year-old girl dies after being found in parked car

Police are investigating after a two-year-old girl found unconscious in a car parked outside a regional town's council office could not be revived and died.

Alec Baldwin opens up about 'Rust' movie set death

Alec Baldwin opens up about 'Rust' movie set death

"The film doesn't stand by itself. It's always going to be overshadowed by this," Alec Baldwin says of a cinematographer's death on the set of the movie Rust.

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Man pulled dead from swimming hole in National Park

Man pulled dead from swimming hole in National Park

Man pulled dead from swimming hole in National Park

Man pulled dead from swimming hole in National Park

A man has died of a suspected drowning after being pulled from the water at a swimming hole in southern Sydney.

'Greedy' smuggler reveals why coke import turned deadly

'Greedy' smuggler reveals why coke import turned deadly

'Greedy' smuggler reveals why coke import turned deadly

'Greedy' smuggler reveals why coke import turned deadly

A superyacht tour operator who described himself as the "linchpin" of a fatal 84kg cocaine importation explained to police how the operation went so wrong.

Australian offer to help Laos tainted alcohol probe

Australian offer to help Laos tainted alcohol probe

Australian offer to help Laos tainted alcohol probe

Australian offer to help Laos tainted alcohol probe

As friends and family mourn the loss of Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, the prime minister has offered federal police to help the investigation in Laos.

Bail for cleaner accused of hiding Isla Bell's remains

Bail for cleaner accused of hiding Isla Bell's remains

Bail for cleaner accused of hiding Isla Bell's remains

Bail for cleaner accused of hiding Isla Bell's remains

A residential cleaner who allegedly transported the remains of Isla Bell in a fridge and helped conceal her death from police has been granted bail.

'Not in vain': families demand poisoning deaths answers

'Not in vain': families demand poisoning deaths answers

'Not in vain': families demand poisoning deaths answers

'Not in vain': families demand poisoning deaths answers

The families of Australians Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones are demanding the Laos government fully investigate a mass poisoning event that claimed their lives.

'Coming for you': man shot had links to organised crime

'Coming for you': man shot had links to organised crime

'Coming for you': man shot had links to organised crime

'Coming for you': man shot had links to organised crime

Police continue to hunt for the perpetrators who fatally shot a man with known links to organised crime in a targeted attack on a Sydney street.

'Gone too soon': grieving community mourns two teens

'Gone too soon': grieving community mourns two teens

'Gone too soon': grieving community mourns two teens

'Gone too soon': grieving community mourns two teens

Tributes are flowing as a community mourns two Melbourne teenagers who died from suspected methanol poisoning while on holiday in Laos.

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'At peace': teenager's family confirms methanol death

Holly Bowles has become the sixth person and second Australian to die after a suspected methanol poisoning event in Laos, her family has confirmed.

Truckie jailed 20 years after boy killed in hit-and-run

Almost 20 years to the day since a "wonderful" six-year-old boy was killed in a hit-and-run crash, the driver responsible for his death has been jailed.

Italian tourist spared jail over triple fatality

A judge has suspended the jail term of an Italian tourist who killed three people in a crash tragedy, saying he hopes the young man can one day forgive himself.

Indigenous man repeatedly tasered, sedated before death

Police's decision to repeatedly taser an Indigenous man during an arrest was appropriate, a coroner has ruled.

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Survival chance lost after hospital misdiagnosis

A coroner says the death of a 65-year-old man was certain after a hospital incorrectly diagnosed gastrointestinal bleeding as pneumonia.

Driver who killed niece, five, in crash spared jail

A Victorian driver who killed her five-year-old niece and caused another woman to have a stillbirth has been spared jail.

Inquest probes failings in violent dad and baby tragedy

Systemic failings allowed a violent, mentally ill man to gain access to his infant daughter and leap to their deaths from a dam wall, an inquest has been told.

Ex-Jetstar pilot to fight murder conviction on appeal

Ex-Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn has filed appeal paperwork to challenge his conviction and sentence for the murder of a missing Victorian grandmother.

Mother's pain as daughter's killer awaits sentence

The family of murdered woman Maryam Hamka have faced her killer Toby Loughnane in court as fronted a pre-sentence hearing.

Family calls for change after woman murdered by partner

The family of a murdered woman have welcomed a coroner's recommendations, saying those changes could protect other women from their violent partners.

Kinder worker's family mourns 'light of our lives'

The family of Eleanor Bryant, killed as a truck crashed into a kindergarten in Victoria, has paid tribute to the mother-of-two as mourners laid flowers.

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