Court

All details of the trial of a 60-year-old woman accused of gagging an elderly rest home resident by taping her mouth shut have been suppressed.

A Wellington milkman made a different delivery than usual when an intoxicated teenager jumped in the back of his truck.

A private investigation nailed a man who managed to steal nearly $53,000 worth of butter and cheese from a Palmerston North company.

A woman charged with abandoning her newborn baby on a flight from Samoa to Auckland has been convicted and discharged.

An Auckland taxi driver, jailed for five years for trying to take out a contract on the life of a priest he believed was his wife's lover, claims a taped conversation he had with a police informant

A youthful-looking sex offender who posed as a 12-year-old boy to enroll in several Arizona schools was sentenced on Tuesday to 70 ½ years in prison.

Two Blenheim men will appear in court today after allegedly smashing their way into a supermarket using a stolen car and stealing cigarettes.

Australia rugby league fullback Brett Stewart appeared in Manly Local Court on Tuesday and entered not guilty pleas to sex charges relating to a 17-year-old girl.

An 18-month jail term was today imposed on a 26-year-old man for possessing child sex abuse images that would have "irreparably damaged" the children involved, Judge Paul Kellar said.