Crime

French swimming champion Yannick Agnel has admitted to having sex with a minor, a prosecutor said on Monday. The 29-year-old, who won two gold medals at the London 2012 Olympics, was arrest at his Paris home last week on suspicion of rape and sexual assault,

ECHO Taskforce detectives have charged a man following an alleged assault at a licensed premises in Echuca. A 47-year-old Southbank man was arrested at his property on Tuesday morning. He has been charged with affray,

Police have seized quantities of illicit drugs after searching multiple properties across the Goulburn Valley as part of a large-scale firearm prohibition order (FPO) compliance operation this month.

Trefor Kingdon and Mandy Melzer were childhood sweethearts who got back together decades later after a school reunion. But early one morning in May 2020 Kingdon stabbed Ms Melzer 11 times with a kitchen knife at their Bendoc home in Victoria's northeast. Kingdon, 65, then staggered into a room where …

Police have a man in custody who allegedly stabbed another Mackay resident to death at a local caravan park in the early hours of Tuesday.

It's Georgia Rossiter here on the Tuesday news blog. I hope everyone is ready for a scorching day; the mercury is going to rise to 35 degrees today. A Police operation targeting dangerous driving in the area resulted in two pursuits on Monday night.

The Michigan teenager charged in the deadliest US school shooting of 2021 has calmly answered questions via video link during a hearing in which his lawyers unsuccessfully pleaded with the judge to move him from a facility where he is being jailed with adults.

The US congressional committee probing the deadly January 6 assault on the Capitol has voted unanimously to seek "contempt of Congress" charges against Mark Meadows, who served as White House chief of staff to former The seven Democratic and two Republican members of the House of Representatives Select Committee approved …

Nine players and an assistant coach have been cited after two separate on-court scuffles in a highly-charged round of NBL.

A US congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol votes unanimously to hold Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress.