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Care home took intimate photos of elderly resident after claims of sexual assault

A man was prohibited from visiting the woman while an investigation took place.

'Heartbroken': Family's pain as phone-using truckie who killed 22yo gets early release

Truck driver Sarah Hope Schmidt sent 45 Snapchat messages and received 85 while driving.

'He had no chance': 82yo bound, gagged during violent home invasion

Levi Tangimetua was sentenced for six years, nine months but thinks it was too harsh.

'Irreplaceable views': Couple battle to subdivide lakeside section

Neighbours argued more housing would erode the area's rural and scenic character.

Breeding mare: Insemination bill ends up in court after horse fails to fall pregnant

The stress-prone mare was to be inseminated with frozen semen from a selected stallion.

‘A dumb decision’: Teen caught red-handed after drug package booby-trapped with dye

A dye trap linked Grayson Erihe-Riwhi and Liam Lomas to the fake delivery.

'Some kind of hell': Father of teen cyclist killed in truck crash assumed driver was to blame

But, when he learnt otherwise, he actively sought out the companies involved.

Drink-driver pulls fingers at motorists trying to tell him his dog was being dragged

Motorists manoeuvred their vehicles around David Devenport's to force him off the road.

'The animals were just left': SPCA seized more than 50 animals, many in poor health

One llama was found with chewed ears, sparking concern over severe neglect.

Girl in lap belt died after mum briefly took her eyes off the road in 'highly preventable tragedy'

Coroner: The 6-year-old's death was an accident, but there were avoidable errors.

'A wound no one can see': Rape victim tells court trauma ‘changed her brain chemistry’

The woman said she still fears leaving home more than two years after the attack.

Cyclone Gabrielle: 111 callers told 'no one is coming to help' as floodwaters rose

'Some of the calls, even now with the passage of time... are distressing to hear.'

Fake talent agent lured woman with promise of modelling career, then assaulted her

Delfin Cruz convinced the 20-year-old she needed to get drunk to 'pass a test'.

Wife says God led couple to house where alleged abuse occurred

'He’s an honest man’: Wife stands by husband in teacher abuse trial.

‘You mocked our son as he lay dying’: Mother addresses killer who filmed son after delivering coward punch

Daytona Thompson has now been sentenced for the manslaughter of Daniel Nganeko.

‘What the heck?’: Teacher allegedly sexually abused boy who was half her age during sleepovers

The man says he was 12 when the woman, who was also a family friend, sexually abused him.