Homicide

The son of a Queensland woman accused of murdering her terminally ill partner claims he confirmed with his father that he wanted to overdose, court documents show.

A man who fatally stabbed one of four men who entered his Safety Bay home wearing balaclavas has a murder charge against him dropped.

Erik and Lyle Menendez will have a new shot at freedom after a judge reduced the brothers' sentences from life without parole to 50 years to life.

A jury hears a farm worker accused of murdering a man in western NSW confessed on three separate occasions.

Qiong Yan, 29, was reported missing by friends and family in April 2021, with her badly decomposed body found in a large toolbox on an apartment verandah months later.

Re-sentencing hearings for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who have spent 35 years in prison for killing their parents, are set to move forward in the US next week.

Emergency services found the man's body after being called to a property in Homebush West at about 11:30pm on Friday.

A grandmother has been charged with the murder of her two grandsons in Coonabarabran, western NSW. The brothers were aged six and seven.

A woman dies in hospital after she was stabbed in the chest, with police arresting and charging another woman at the scene at Elizabeth East in Adelaide. 

A memorial plaque for Cassius Turvey in his community of Midland, east of Perth, sits as an enduring reminder of the legacy he left behind: "gentle giant", "huggable teddy bear", and a "young leader".

The inquiry heard a security guard on duty had previously failed when tested on the two main objectives of security in an active armed offender situation.

Supreme Court documents allege a fatal stabbing attack involving a pack of seven people in Newcastle was coordinated and planned.

The mother of murdered Indigenous teenager Cassius Turvey has spoken to reporters after two men, Jack Brearley and Brodie Palmer, were found guilty of his murder.

Two men have been found guilty of murdering Indigenous schoolboy Cassius Turvey, who was chased into bushland and savagely beaten with a metal pole ripped from a shopping trolley. Cason Ho reports.

Jack Brearley and Brodie Palmer are found guilty by a WA Supreme Court jury of the murder of Indigenous schoolboy Cassius Turvey, who died after being savagely beaten with a metal shopping trolley pole, sparking nationwide vigils.

After a local woman was allegedly murdered at the hands of her partner, her relatives and other members of the Fitzroy Crossing community have started a renewed push for change.

A 55-year-old man has been charged with murder and fraud over his wife's death, initially considered an accidental drowning.

Ronald Lane, nephew of Barry Lane who was killed in the Snowtown "bodies-in-the-barrels" murders, says convicted killer James Vlassakis's bid for parole is a "slap in the face"

A teenager who stabbed and killed a 16-year-old boy near a bus interchange in Melbourne's west two years ago will spend at least eight years behind bars.

The nephew of one of the "bodies-in-the-barrels" murder victims has called on South Australia's Parole Board not to release convicted killer James Vlassakis, who has made a bid for parole.