Courts news headlines

Police have charged a 32-year-old woman from central Queensland with five counts of attempted murder after she allegedly crashed the 4WD she was driving on purpose.

The US government was pushing back on a company's bid to retrieve artefacts from the sunken wreck.

The 52-year-old was convicted but has been released from jail.

Convicted murderer Derrick Bromley has taken his first steps of freedom in South Australia.

Daniel James Stoneman has been granted bail after spending four months behind bars on charges of sexually assaulting eight women he met on dating apps and social media.

Orpheus Pledger, 31, will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to repeatedly assaulting a woman.

Colin Crane's murder conviction and 16-year-old sentence was overturned.

Former actor Orpheus Pledger was brought from custody to Melbourne Magistrates Court this morning for his sentencing hearing.

Counter-terrorism police allegedly uncovered items relating to extreme right-wing ideology when they stormed a home.

The court heard the murderer and her victim had been dating the same man and the case stayed cold for 40 years.

Donald Trump will not be sentenced on his business fraud conviction until September, a New York judge ruled Tuesday in the wake of Monday's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity.

Lucy Letby, 34, tried to kill the baby girl in a UK hospital in February 2016, a jury has decided.

New police bodycam footage has been released showing the moment a drug-addled Cody Edwards is arrested for the brutal 2022 killing of his girlfriend in South Australia's south east.

Dr Christopher Morris was questioned about the steps taken to treat two-year-old Pippa White in court.

Oliver Jordan Schulz, 43, is accused of shooting Dad Mohammad three times in a wheat field in Afghanistan while he was laying on his back.

Police phone intercepts captured Liam Rudolph speaking to people he referred to as "my runners" about supplying drugs and guns.

Christopher Bell was today sentenced to seven years behind bars for fatally running over George Tereva, 34, at a Melbourne worksite in September 7, 2022.

The daughter of a former New Zealand All Black has been charged in relation to an alleged hit and run that left a 65-year-old man dead on the side of an Auckland road.

She walked free from court after a jury remained deadlocked, leaving her police officer husband's death a mystery.

About 150 pages detailing an investigation into sex trafficking and rape allegations are now in the public eye.

The US Supreme Court has sent Donald Trump's immunity case back to a lower court in Washington, dimming prospect of a pre-election trial.

Bannon called himself a "political prisoner" and said the former president was "very supportive" of him and slammed Democrats, including Attorney-General Merrick Garland.

For 16 minutes an Indigenous man was left unconscious in his prison cell before dying, in what his mother describes as a system lacking care and compassion for human life.

Andres Pancha's sisters paid tribute to their big brother, describing him as the anchor grounding his nine siblings.

A man accused of driving dangerously before a horror multi-vehicle crash that killed a 61-year-old woman and seriously injured two others has faced court.

Orpheus Pledger, 31, faced court today via video link, pleading guilty to repeatedly assaulting a woman.

Andres Pancha, 45, was allegedly murdered at Frankston Pier yesterday morning.

A court ruling has put an involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin on track for trial in early July as a judge denied a request to dismiss the case on complaints that key evidence was damaged by the FBI during forensic testing.

More than 650,000 homeless people across the country are believed to be affected.

A father-to-be died after suffering a gunshot wound while inside his car.

A Perth man has been charged with allegedly setting up Wi-Fi networks to collect personal data from innocent users.

The former NRL star has claimed vindication after his rape charges were officially dropped.

Australian rules football champion will fight allegations he sexually assaulted an underage girl in the 1980s.

Toby Loughnane, 44, claimed Maryam Hamka died of a drug overdose in the early hours of April 11, 2021, and his only crime was not calling an ambulance.

The student was forced into a car and seriously injured after coming out of the vehicle while it was moving.

A woman has been convicted of repeated animal cruelty offences after a court found that four horses in her care had been left to become severely underweight.

The children were allegedly found locked in a barn without toilets or running water.

The American woman recorded videos of herself committing "evil and horrific" crimes before uploading them on social media.

A lawyer for Harry said News Group Newspapers was engaging in a "classic fishing expedition".

A man who kidnapped and buried his ex-girlfriend alive in South Australia's Flinders Ranges has had his minimum sentence increased to 28 years and six months.

Two teenagers who attacked a former Wallabies star and his family in a home invasion that resembled a "war zone" have been sentenced.

The former Liberal staffer's bankruptcy is becoming more likely after he was ordered to pay $2 million to Ten for its costs of defending his failed defamation case.

Disgraced former AFL player manager Ricky Nixon has been sentenced to an 18-month corrections order after assaulting and throwing a package at a postman.

A Tasmanian judge has praised the "brave and desperate" actions of a teenager who intervened to save his mother.

When the votes were counted, it was discovered that 23 electors had voted twice, with the former councillor's DNA found on all 23 ballots.

Burgess slapped a woman to the head multiple times and punched a hole in a bedroom plaster wall, according to court documents.

The 31-year-old pretended to be an authorised celebrant while he defrauded five couples of between $700 to $1000 each for marriage services.

Karen Read is charged with second-degree murder in the January 2022 death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe.

Evan Gershkovich is the first Western journalist charged with espionage in post-Soviet Russia.

The opinion reportedly showed that a majority of the court agreed to dismiss an appeal over abortions in medical emergencies.