The on-off boyfriend of actress Keisha Castle-Hughes smiled as he left the dock today after police withdrew a charge that he assaulted the ''Almighty Johnsons'' star.
An elderly man who stole the identities of dead children to con taxpayers out of $447,000 has been sentenced to three years and two months in prison.
Laying charges against cameraman Bradley Ambrose would be a waste of further public money, says his lawyer.
The `Urewera Four' could face a retrial, after a jury today failed to reach a decision on whether or not they were members of an organised criminal group.
The jurors deciding the fate of the "Urewera Four'' accused have resumed their deliberations this morning.
The jurors deciding the case of the Urewera four must determine whether the group were training a militia or practising bushcraft and learning skills for security work overseas.
A man who picked his partner's 6-month-old son up by his leg, violently shook him and dropped him on his head has received a sentence of life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years for murder.
A bomb recipe was found in the flat of one of the members of an alleged military-style training camp in the Urewera Ranges, a court has heard.
Kim Dotcom could be out of his million-dollar mansion and back in jail as soon Tuesday.
Police dressed in running shorts and posing as joggers ran through the bush in the Urewera Ranges near Ruatoki where they believed a military-style training camp had been held and found molotov cocktails, a court has been told.
A man charged with punching and causing the death of a Sky Television employee in Auckland's Viaduct has pleaded not guilty.
The trial of the Urewera four is on hold until Wednesday after a juror phoned in sick.
The Urewera trial has been adjourned for the day after one of the accused called in sick.
A police witness in the Urewera trial has refused to answer questions from a defence lawyer because the answers could "compromise operation methods''.
A police officer will continue giving evidence today in the trial of the four people accused of being involved in military-style training camps in the Urewera Ranges.
Surveillance video footage showing people in balaclavas with rifles walking through the Urewera bush has been played to the jurors in the Urewera trial.
The Urewera trial has been adjourned for two hours after a short legal argument in chambers at the High Court in Auckland.
A family is fighting to stop its boxer-cross dog being put down after it bit a man on their property.
The father of a 9-year-old west Auckland girl found hiding in a cupboard after months of torture and abuse at the hands of her parents has been sentenced to three years in prison with a minimum non-parole period of two years for his part in her horrific ordeal.
In the end it was Kim Dotcom's money and his "history of taking an unorthodox route'' that saw the multimillionaire remain behind bars yesterday instead of going home to his family and his $30 million mansion.