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Jordan McCarthy is a general news reporter for the Herald Sun.

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Corner Wells Road and Thames Promenade in Chelsea Heights 10.50pm tonight. Crowds of people watching burnouts, all flee when sole police car turns up. Source: Facebook

Hundreds of hoons take over bayside intersection

In yet another display of lawlessness on Melbourne’s streets, hundreds of hoons took over a major Chelsea Heights intersection.

News

Jane Argitan has gone on a social media rant taking aim at her detractors. Picture: Instagram

Councillor stood down over alleged doxxing shares fresh rant to social media

Disgraced Kingston City councillor Jane Agirtan has lashed out at her critics after being stood down for allegedly doxxing a lawyer, taking to social media to share a heated rant.

News

The window of Amelia Hamer's office has been the target of vandals. Picture: Supplied

‘Disgrace’: Vandals target Liberal candidate’s campaign posters

More drama has enveloped Amelia Hamer’s election campaign with the Liberal candidate for Kooyong’s posters, office and even a supporter’s home becoming targets of vandals.

Victoria

Generic police tape at a crime scene with Crime Stoppers number, qps, queensland police service, Sunday, March 23, 2025. Picture: Kevin Farmer

Suspected tobacco war foot soldier gunned down in Coolaroo

A 22-year-old man believed to be involved in the ongoing tobacco wars has driven himself to hospital with gunshot wounds after being targeted in a brazen daylight shooting in Melbourne’s north.

VideoNews

Three offenders have broken into a Tarneit home before being confronted by the homeowners as they made off with their vehicles. Picture: Supplied

‘This is how I’m dying’: Man hit by his own car during Tarneit home invasion

Dramatic footage has captured the moment a father was struck by his own car during a terrifying home invasion in Melbourne’s west.

Police & Courts

Could new bail laws save Port Phillip Prison?

Port Phillip Prison leaders are urging workers to push to keep the facility open as a remand centre in the wake of strict new bail laws.

Victoria

A man has died after being stabbed at a property on Winton St in Burwood in Melbourne's east.

Man charged with murder after housemate’s stabbing death

A Burwood man is dead after allegedly being stabbed by his housemate after an argument over household chores.

Victoria

Chaos has broken out at a southeastern Melbourne suburb after a highly-anticipated discount store, Panda Mart, opened to the public on Thursday, resulting in the store shutting its doors to help control the crowd. Picture: Supplied

Dodgy lamps with exposed wires the latest Panda Mart safety hazard

Hundreds of dodgy lamps that can deliver electric shocks to customers are being recalled to Panda Mart, in the latest product safety warning at the Chinese discount retailer.

Police & Courts

Tony Mokbel does his first checkin at Heidelberg Police station the day after getting out of prison on bail . Saturday, April 5. 2025. Picture: David Crosling

Mokbel checks in at police station, goes shopping on first morning of freedom

Tony Mokbel has checked in at Heidelberg Police Station hours after being granted bail almost 18 years on from his notorious arrest as a fugitive in Greece.

Police & Courts

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 31 2025People at the scene where two teens died in a car crash on Kelletts Rd in RowvillePicture: Brendan Beckett

Teen on bail allegedly stole second car from home before Rowville crash

A fourteen-year-old boy on bail has been charged over an aggravated burglary in Knoxfield which ended with the death of two teens in a horror crash.

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