As her husband lay dying from gunshot wounds, Carmen Maheno struggled with her armed nephew, who struck her with the rifle, a court heard today.

A woman charged with murdering her godson has formally entered a not guilty plea at an appearance in the High Court at Auckland.

A dispute over who was supposed to wash the dishes has led to a three-year jail term for stabbing a man in the buttocks.

Authorities who found the bodies of three women in garbage bags in a low-income Ohio neighbourhood ended a daylong search without finding other victims.

Friends, family members and supporters of murdered New Zealand teacher Prudence Hockley sighed with relief at her killer's sentencing in the United States yesterday.

The alleged killing of baby Atreyu has proved a timely reminder about the community's real priority - to seek out solutions to child abuse.

A woman was found dead at a block of council flats last night and a 59-year-old man was arrested shortly afterwards.

Was it a hate crime? Or did the jury members make the right call when they acquitted George Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager?

Gun-supporting Republicans in America have missed an opportunity to make their argument that more weapons make us safer.

Jurors have begun their deliberations in the racially charged trial of a US neighbourhood watch volunteer accused of murderingunarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.

David Bain does not know whether to laugh or cry about so-called "new" evidence said to clear him of murdering his family but which went unnoticed 19 years.

Police investigating the 1993 death of Jane Furlong are looking for a light coloured Morris van or similar.

David Bain supporter Joe Karam says a second set of photos of Robin Bain's thumb support the theory that the sooty parallel marks were from gunpowder residue.

An Auckland man accused of killing his flatmate was legally insane at the time, according to two psychiatric reports.

The grieving family of murder victim Derek Round have expressed relief at his killer's guilty plea.

The man accused of killing veteran journalist Derek Round in Wanganui last year has pleaded guilty to murder.

Two teenagers have been charged with manslaughter following the death of an Auckland schoolboy.

Police have dismissed the Bain case "slam dunk" as an "interesting theory" which has been taken out of context.

Police have responded to new evidence that suggests Robin Bain murdered his family, saying marks on a photograph "can always be open to interpretation".

Two small marks on Robin Bain's thumb suggest that he, and not his son David, was the person who loaded the gun that killed his Dunedin family.