The jury has gone out to consider its verdict in a case in which a police officer is accused of a cover up of the circumstances leading to the death of man fleeing custody.

A 27-year-old Christchurch woman charged with murdering her new born child has been remanded in custody for a psychiatric report.

A toddler admitted to Starship Hospital earlier this year with a severe head injury has died.

A 14-year-old boy was jailed for 20 months and his father for two years at the High Court in Gisborne today in an emotional sequel to the shooting of an 11-year-old boy on an East Cape farm in July 2009.

A trial has begun for two police officers accused of punching and challenging to a fight an 18-year-old who was getting "a little bit lippy" after they were called to disperse a group of teens drinking in an Auckland park.

For eight years, a British grandmother has been living on death row in Texas.

Police hope to speak to the five victims of a frenzied knife attack today to learn what triggered the bloody assault.

A 45-year-old man has been arrested after a bloody stabbing incident in a west Auckland house last night.

A former Auckland University student will have to serve 13 years in an American jail after pleading guilty to attacking a 35-weeks pregnant woman with a Taser in the United States

Dita De Boni is horrified at the fear of a 2-year-old kicked to death after wetting himself.