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Rain easing, roads reopening
Rain eased in Gisborne overnight and surrounding roads reopened after flooding and slips caused evacuations.
Tormented driver's journey of death
In part five of his series on 2009's big trials, Andrew Koubaridis revisits the night Tony Worrell drove into Katie Powles.
Ex-wife regrets decision to let drunk husband go
The estranged wife of convicted murderer Tony Worrell says she regrets not doing more to make him stay home the night he drove into two cars.
Man guilty of murdering woman in deliberate crash
Tony Worrell was responsible for Katie Powles' death when he deliberately crashed into her on June 3, 2008, a jury found today.
Judge's husband dies in stables blaze
The man killed in a fire on his South Auckland farm was the husband of district court judge Jane Lovell-Smith.
Murder accused never braked before driving into victim, court told
Tony Worrell hit Katie Powles' car at about 85km per hour, with no evidence that he tried to avoid a collision.
Death crash accused threatened to hurt someone, court told
A man accused of deliberately driving his car into two other vehicles, killing a woman, said "he was going to f*** someone up", the High Court hears.
Death crash accused seemed drunk, court told
A man accused of deliberately driving his car into other vehicles - killing a young woman - seemed to be "really drunk" that night, a petrol station worker told a court today.
Death crash deliberate, says Crown
The man accused of deliberately causing a fatal crash was found at the scene with a bottle of beer between his legs, a court hears.
Woman died after car deliberately driven into, court told
Prosecutor describes dangerous driving immediately before fatal crash.