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Fresh search for Emma Campbell draws blank
Police today re-checked an area near where missing Christchurch woman Emma Campbell's car was found more than four months ago.Miss Campbell, 29, was last seen at a petrol station in the city early on May 1. Her car was found abandoned...
Girl's savage beating recorded on mobile
The savage bashing and stomping of a 16-year-old girl in the streets of Christchurch was recorded on a cellphone so that the video could be put on the internet, Christchurch District Court was told today.Steven Law-Baty, 23, was...
Far North crash victim named
A man killed when his car hit a bridge in the Far North yesterday has been named as Stephen Swift, 46, from Peria, east of Kaitaia.Mr Swift was on his way to work when his car hit a two-lane bridge on a straight stretch of road...
Judge misconduct decision reserved
A judicial review hearing into the alleged "misbehaviour" Supreme Court judge Bill Wilson ended in the High Court at Wellington today, with the decision reserved.The Judicial Conduct Commissioner Sir David Gascoigne took the unprecedented...
NZ serial rapist jailed for 18 years
SYDNEY - A New Zealander guilty of raping two women and sexually assaulting 10 others across Sydney has been jailed for at least 18 years and nine months.Shannon Curreen, 23, will be imprisoned until at least May 2028 for "serious...
NZ to spend $3.5m on Pacific tsunami system
The Government will spend $3.5 million on improving tsunami preparedness and warning systems across the Pacific in a programme which Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully describes as a major upgrade.Mr McCully is in Samoa at...
Man jailed for robbing dying cancer victim
An armed man who held up a woman dying of cancer for her pain-killing medication was today jailed for five years and four months.The crown asked Judge Raoul Neave in Christchurch District Court for a sentence of four years for...
PM: 'Racism' remarks just humour
Prime Minister John Key is downplaying comments from Land Information Minister Maurice Williamson that opponents to land sales to foreigners were sometimes being racist, saying it was a case of humour backfiring.In a speech to...
PM to cancer patient's wife: He loves you, Rachel
Prime Minister John Key has appeared alongside actor Hugh Jackman in a video made by an Australian man for his Kiwi wife.Both Mr Key and Jackman feature on the film made by Kristian Anderson, a 35-year-old from Sydney who suffers...
Toddler drowns in Nelson gardens
A toddler, aged 20 months, has died in the Queens Gardens in Nelson this morning.Members of the public found Zachary Michael Kennedy's body floating in a pond in the gardens.Police were notified at 11.30 that he'd gone missing.Police...
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