Neighbours became concerned when they couldn’t see any activity inside the Anna Bay rental property for days despite the lights continuously being on. Police will allege they discovered why when they walked inside.
A woman has spoken for the first time about her ordeal on a bus on the same route two teenagers disappeared from more than 40 years ago.
A low-security inmate who allegedly took a female correctional officer hostage and threatened her with rape has been identified as he is transferred into high-security isolation.
Kye David Campbell was arrested near Cameron Park following what police allege was a pursuit. But it was the 33 bags allegedly found in his car that quickly attracted the attention of officers.
The jail employee is alleged to have smuggled five packages into the Hunter prison.
The .38 calibre bullet hit a bathroom wall as a revolver was being transferred between guards during a shift change at the new $470m Maitland Hospital
The men, from Singleton and Muswellbrook, have been charged with more than a dozen offences.
Charlestown man Tyson Murray told a court he had first looked up child abuse material five years before he took a photograph of a naked baby and passed it on using a messenger app.
Detectives investigating a series of violent crimes, including the stabbing of Morpeth shopkeeper Jason Bull, have swooped in simultaneous and co-ordinated raids across the Hunter.
It was an unrelated traffic investigation which first led police to the Stroud home. And it was what they saw inside a shed which prompted further investigation.
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