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A still from passenger Daniel Defina’s footage of the teenager being restrained by a Jetstar employee, Barry Clark and the pilot.

Safety breach probe at Avalon Airport as accused teen gunman fronts court

A lack of police presence at the airport meant officers had to race nine kilometres to arrest a teenager who claimed to be carrying a bomb on board a Jetstar flight.

  • Melissa Cunningham, Cameron Houston and Marta Pascual Juanola

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Burgertory owner Hash Tayeh charged for pro-Palestine rally chants

The Palestinian activist says he will fight four counts of using insulting words in public at a CBD rally in May.

  • Chris Vedelago
Footage of the teenager being restrained after attempting to board the flight with a gun.

‘A gun, knives and a can of fuel’: Passengers recount terrifying moment when armed teen boarded flight

By the time Daniel Defina realised he was looking at a shotgun, shearer Barry Clark and a Jetstar pilot had already leapt into action.

  • Cassandra Morgan, Melissa Cunningham, Marta Pascual Juanola and Cameron Houston
Security guards in the City of Melbourne

‘Second-best solution’: Two security guards to bolster city’s safety patrols

Melbourne City Council has begun a trial of two security guards accompanying their officers enforcing anti-begging, drinking and drug-taking laws.

  • Adam Carey
Mark Mladenich, left, and his late brother Richard, who was murdered in St Kilda in 2000.

The unsolved murder that started an underworld war

An execution on May 16, 2000, wasn’t exactly headline news – but it was the first murder that began the Underbelly crime war, which would result in 16 killings over 10 years.

  • John Silvester
Irene Herzel was allegedly stabbed to death by her daughter.

Woman accused of stabbing her mother to death too unwell to appear, court told

A woman who allegedly stabbed her mother to death in Melbourne’s east has treatment-resistant schizophrenia and has been deemed unfit to be interviewed, a court has been told.

  • Melissa Cunningham
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A delivery driver delivers one of the mysterious empty toasted sandwiches.

The toastie delivery mystery bewildering residents and police across Melbourne

Melburnians are receiving empty toasted sandwiches they never even ordered in a bizarre trend that is reaching doorsteps across the city.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Christopher Dillon Joannidis outside the County Court in November.

‘Manifestly inadequate’: Prosecutors appeal against sentence for crash driver who killed five people

Christopher Dillon Joannidis was jailed for 5½ years, but will be eligible to seek parole in three years over the deadly crash at Strathmerton in Victoria’s north.

  • Melissa Cunningham and Erin Pearson
Residents have raised concerns about anti-social behaviour in St Kilda, prompting a proposal to issue fines to the homeless.

Surging crime prompts Port Phillip Council to consider fining homeless

The idea of fining rough sleepers raised concerns from some councillors about making homelessness illegal and possibly breaching vulnerable citizens’ human rights.

  • Tom Cowie
Soldiers in Kyiv fold a Ukrainian flag on the coffin of a soldier killed Russian troops in a battle.

The DNA detectives taking on the grim reality of Ukraine’s war

Their code is “everyone has the right to a dignified life, everyone has the right to a dignified death”. And they are using ingenious ways to identify bodies, and bring closure to families.

  • John Silvester

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