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All three countsVideoDerek Chauvin guilty over George Floyd’s death

A jury has found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter after kneeling on the neck of a dying George Floyd during an arrest last May.

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Firing linePremium
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Rosendorff jewellery boss nabbed with 1930s pistol

The man who rescued fine jewellery house Rosendorff from the brink of collapse is lucky to have escaped jail after being caught with an unregistered gun.

Emily Moulton

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Margaret Dodd’s hopePremium
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‘Please find my Hayley and bring her home’

Margaret Dodd says she is praying the 22-year mystery of her daughter Hayley’s final resting place is about to be solved after police began a fresh dig at the old home of her killer Francis John Wark.

Sarah Steger, Shannon Hampton and Michael Traill

Breaking pointCommentsPremiumWA’s criminal justice system ‘almost unworkable’

At least four new courtrooms are needed in Perth to ease the State’s ever-increasing trial backlog — with the State’s peak association for lawyers saying our justice system is ‘overloaded’.

Tim Clarke

Smashing spreePremiumBored kids guilty of smashing up school

Two Albany juveniles who went on a school-holiday vandalism spree have pleaded guilty to causing $15,000 worth of damage to Flinders Park Primary School.

Kellie Balaam

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Second time unluckyPremium
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$60m drug kingpin jailed again over second major bust

A WA drug kingpin who served ten and a half years in jail for trafficking $60m worth of drugs had only been out of prison for 15 months when he was nabbed again by police as part of a major sting.

Emily Moulton

Violent assaultPremiumMum viciously bashed while breastfeeding newborn

A man repeatedly punched a woman while she was breastfeeding their six-week-old son, then dragged her by her hair through her home — all while she clung to the baby. WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT.

Kellie Balaam

Royal CommissionPremium‘Fishing trip’ casino officer lawyers up

The WA Government's former chief casino officer — who stood down after revelations of his fishing trips with Crown Perth executives — has hired his own lawyer for the upcoming Royal Commission.

Tim Clarke

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Shock allegationsPremium
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Daughter dobs in man ‘planning Perth massacre’

A man’s plan to massacre 20 people in Perth and then turn the gun on himself was thwarted by his daughter, a court has been told.

Holly Thompson

Fatal fightVideoMan charged with murder over Greenwood fight death

A 43-year-old man has been charged with murder after a man was found seriously injured in a Greenwood home on Sunday.

‘Disaster waiting to happen’PremiumDad who took photo of baby son wrapped in ammo fined

A young father who was photographed pointing a shotgun at his daughter while she held a rifle and took a photo of his baby son in a cot with an ammunition belt has been fined $1500.

Elise Van Aken

Major seizurePremiumEx-Comanchero bikie charged over huge WA drug bust

A former Comanchero bikie who survived a shooting outside a Melbourne mosque four years ago is among three people charged over a major WA drug bust.

Phil Hickey

Collie accusedCommentsPremiumMan denies using car to pin two women against pub wall

South West business owner Benjamin Lawrence Bynre-Quinn pleaded not guilty to the charge in Bunbury Magistrate’s Court today.

Carly Laden

ASIC winPremiumJudge bans Mayfair 101 bond spruiker James Mawhinney

A judge has imposed a two-decade ban on the man behind the $200 million-plus Mayfair 101 property finance schemes amid evidence he has kept tapping investors.

Neale Prior

Cottesloe footpath crashElderly ‘drink driver’ charged over pedestrian death

An 87-year-old driver has been charged for running over and killing an elderly pedestrian in Cottesloe while drink driving last month.

Daryna Zadvirna

Serious allegationsPremiumSAS won’t be stripped of medals after war crimes report

The Commonwealth Government has backed down from a move to strip special forces soldiers who served in Afghanistan of a top military honour after an inquiry into alleged war crimes.

Sarah Ison

POLICE CHASEVideoWrong way driver nabbed after police pursuit

WATCH: A Duncraig man is facing a string of charges after allegedly speeding away from police in a stolen car late last night.

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Time for changePremium
investigation
Senseless deaths in custody still haunt nation

The hopes of turning around the horrible statistics of the 1980s and 1990s — tied to the implementation of the royal commission — are fading. But it must end.

Rangi Hirini

Drug chargesPerth journalist freed from Burma jail after 3 years

Newspaper co-founder Ross Dunkley has been released from a Burma jail after serving three years of a 13-year drug sentence, as part of a large-scale pardon by the country’s military junta.

Brianna Dugan

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Bikie killerPremium
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Rebel killer who shot dead Martin recruit is freed

A drug dealer who fatally shot a Rebels nominee recruited by the gang’s slain chief Nick Martin over a $700 drug debt has been released on parole after a decade in prison.

Shannon Hampton

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‘On a mission’Premium
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Murder victim’s mum ‘won’t stop until they get justice’

The mother of murder victim Kym Taylor says she will not stop fighting for justice after two people accused of being involved in her daughter’s killing were acquitted.

Phil Hickey

Another blowPremiumSenior Rock Machine bikie facing weapons charges

The Rock Machine bikie gang has suffered yet another hammer-blow after senior figure Daniel James Bailey appeared in court this week over a string of serious weapon and drugs charges.

Phil Hickey & Shannon Hampton

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Fraud chargesPremium
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Race car driver guilty of stealing company cash

A championship race car driver accused of siphoning $330,000 from a company he started with Heath Ledger’s dad has been found guilty of several offences.

Emily Moulton

Fallen starPremiumEx-Eagle Kerr admits breaching family VRO

Former AFL champion Daniel Kerr has pleaded guilty to breaching a family violence restraining order taken out by his ex-partner Michelle McAtackney.

Angie Raphael

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