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Mark Buttler is an award-winning crime journalist for the Herald Sun.

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John Torney has has been found not guilty to murdering Nikki Francis-Coslovich at Mildura on August 25 last year. John Torney walks free from Mildura Police Station. Picture: Mark Stewart

Man charged over death of Cobram woman

A man has been charged over the death of a Cobram woman — his neighbour — who was found dead in her home earlier this year.

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Bali Nine members Scott Rush, Matthew Norman, Si-Yi Chen, Martin Stephens, and Michael Czugaj . Picture: Supplied

Five members of Bali Nine break silence after return to Australia

The five remaining members of the Bali Nine have arrived home as free men who will not have to spend any more time behind bars.

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The man who tragically died after he was wind turbine blade at Golden Plains Wind Farm in Rokewood has been identified as 36-year-old Jess Patience. Picture: Supplied

Wind farm’s alleged safety failings before worker’s death

A Victorian wind farm where a worker was crushed to death allegedly failed to implement proper safety precautions, alarming leaked documents have revealed.

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Explosion in Melbourne cocaine use exposed

Analysis of Melbourne wastewater has revealed cocaine use has surged by 300 per cent in seven years as sources reveal stories of affluent business figures still driving a chunk of the market.

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This prison-issued toothbrush is the ultimate stocking stuffer

What do you get the true crime buff who has everything this Christmas? How about a lived-in piece of Port Phillip Prison memorabilia?

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Three children have been arrested after fleeing a BMW with one of its doors ripped off in the city., Police followed the car from Thornbury and through the CBD on Wednesday morning until it stopped in Elizabeth street. Picture: Cameron Tandy

Teens arrested after police tail smashed-up BMW through Melbourne CBD

Three teenagers has been arrested after allegedly trying to flee from a stolen and damaged luxury car in a busy street in Melbourne’s CBD.

Police & Courts

Even a firebombing can’t stop Melbourne’s most resilient shop

This Pascoe Vale tobacco store wouldn’t let something as commonplace as a car smashing through their front wall and a firebombing attack stop them from serving their local community.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - December 6, 2024: A family home in Bundoora has been sprayed with bullets and a vehicle parked nearby set on fire., Police are on the hunt for two unknown male offenders who set fire to the vehicle parked on Boadle Rd about 1am Friday., A number of shots were also fired into the front door of a property before the offenders fled the scene., Picture: NewsWire / Nadir Kinani

Shots fired into family home in Bundoora

Police are searching for the motive in a terrifying drive-by shooting attack on a suburban family home on Friday morning, with a nearby vehicle also set alight.

Police & Courts

Generic photo of cigarettes. A lot of cigarettes. Picture: iStock

250,000 illegal cigarettes seized in stockpile linked to Kaz Hamad

Some 250,000 cigarettes and a ton of chop chop has been seized in a Craigieburn storage facility police believe to be linked to crime kingpin Kazem Hamad.

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Hamblin, Andrea suppliedSee below for a photo I found online of the very glamorous Alicia Schiller, one of the suspects in the Norlane stabbing. She looks like a really lovely person. I believe Alicia was released from jail in August. Chasing some more details.

Jailed murderer abandons controversial IVF plan

Brutal killer Alicia Schiller has ditched her plans to have a baby behind bars after she was given the green light to leave maximum security prison for fertility treatment.

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