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A Whangamata beekeeper who today admitted selling honeycomb which inadvertently poisoned people will be sentenced in three weeks' time.

Court of Appeal judges today reserved their decision on an appeal by a man against his conviction last year of an historical East Coast murder.

A man, 41, was today charged with sexual violation and attempt to have unlawful sexual connection in the wake of an internet date which went wrong.

Oamaru woman Elle Dunjey has been given a chance to turn her life around after a brief taste of prison.

Police have laid further bank theft charges against the Romanian couple who allegedly went on a jewellery spree around the North Island.

A repeat burglar who became a teenage father in January was jailed today for a year and nine months.

Neighbours who helped a lonely elderly lady care for her large property have won access to her $A15 ($NZ19) million estate.

A 34-year-old man has been remanded in custody on a charge of murder after another man died in hospital last night.

Convicted double murderer John Barlow now has a nervous six-week wait for the law lords at the Privy Council in London to decide his fate.