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.

Defence and prosecution psychiatrists disagree on the sanity of a NZ post graduate student accused of murdering his wife in the US.

An anonymous caller has been offered amnesty from prosecution if he tells police who threw a bottle that smashed a grandmother's face.

Claims of Blazej Kot's mental state when he killed his wife have been examined in a New York court.

Hit-and-run victim Joanne Wang was left rolling on the ground, bleeding and crying after a vehicle ran over her left foot and part of her body and flung her down onto the concrete, a court has heard.

Police need an anonymous caller to clarify information he gave on who smashed a grandmother's face by throwing a beer bottle.

Police say a beer bottle flung at a Bay of Plenty grandmother's face may provide them with DNA traces of the offenders.

The NZ student accused of murdering his wife in the US has said he dreamed of being "reunited" with her.

The distraught mother of three children shot dead by their father in Melbourne says she wishes she had never taken her children to Australia.

A murder investigation has been launched into the death of a man after an attack at an Auckland house this afternoon.

The lawyer representing the man accused of a hit-and-run murder says he intended only to steal the victim's bag.

A 65-year-old woman is emerging from a coma after having a beer bottle thrown at her head from a passing car at the weekend.