A police officer knocked unconscious at a call-out last night has barely any memory of the attack, say police.

A former NZ student turned Ivy League scholar who murdered his new bride will serve his prison sentence in the US.

A judge says a man was technically and morally - but not legally - responsible for the death of a woman on a cruise ship.

The murder of former Melbourne crime boss Carl Williams has opened a new can of worms.

A co-author of the original Underbelly books says Carl Williams began a "chain of violence" that ended with his own death yesterday.

Seven years passed before police could match a DNA sample to Joseph Reekers.

A man denies he was the one who fired a shotgun blast at a confrontation between groups at a Christchurch park.

A man charged with murdering an elderly woman in her home has told a court he is guilty of her manslaughter.

A grandmother hit in the face by a bottle thrown from a car has woken from her coma and spoken for the first time.

Rajesh "Eddie" Osborne was interviewed by police three days before he killed himself and his children in Australia.

A primary school security guard was shot in the face with an air pistol after doing everything a teenage robber ordered.

A Bay of Plenty woman says a can of beer was thrown at her car "so hard it was like a missile".

A woman raped by a man previously accused of underage sex and killing a baby speaks of her relief at the verdict.