New vapes that connect to your phone and allow you to take calls, play music and download photos are being sold on the streets of Melbourne. While consuming one device is the equivalent of smoking 25 packs of cigarettes, poor health isn’t the scary part.
An elderly heroin mule found with 5kg of heroin at Melbourne Airport — the third time she has been busted — will be 83 before she next tastes freedom.
A one-time rising boxer is the man police charged with murdering gangland boss Mohammed “Afghan Ali” Keshtiar in an ambush near his South Yarra apartment.
Nicola Gobbo – aka Lawyer X – is being sued by a man over his wrongful murder conviction, as newly freed Tony Mokbel plans to follow suit.
Comanchero bikie Richard Ene has appeared in court after allegedly launching a vicious attack on a group of guards at a maximum security prison and sending two to hospital.
Masked youths have been captured on CCTV storming a milk bar in Melbourne’s southeast to rob the till before a worker disrupted their plans by running to lock them inside the store.
Law firm Slater + Gordon has referred a former employee to police who it suspects is behind “malicious emails” sent to more than 900 staff in a “premeditated and carefully planned attack”.
Two teenagers have been arrested over a fire at a Lygon St gym where murdered Melbourne underworld figure Sam “The Punisher” Abdulrahim used to train — they are also accused of torching a Fawkner tobacco store.
Champion jockey Danny Nikolic and former lawyer Patrick Lennon have fronted court after allegedly becoming trapped inside a Carlton home while attempting to steal $177,000 worth of luxury items.
A man once charged with murdering his tenant over a rent dispute, only to have the charges dropped, has been rearrested and charged again.
A nine-year-old boy was lucky to escape with only minor injuries when a grey SUV hit him in Point Cook. Now police are hunting the driver who failed to stop and help.
Convicted killer Alicia Schiller said “yes” to her jailbird lover in a maximum security prison proposal before she was given the green light to undergo IVF treatment.
A top detective wrote a scathing report into Victoria Police’s handling of domestic violence cases involving officers. At the same time, he was accused of abusing his own wife. She says his colleagues should never have been the ones to investigate him.
Stunned shoppers watched on as two stolen cars crashed at speed in a Glen Waverley shopping centre car park, before two groups of teens fled from the wrecked vehicles.
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