Crime

Police are not ruling out links between a robbery in Dunedin's Exchange Plaza yesterday afternoon and six similar robberies in the city since November.

Police have several leads to follow up after the public responded positively to a police plea for information on a man believed responsible for up to eight bank robberies or attempted robberies in Dunedin and Mosgiel since November.

Two Dunedin teenage siblings were attacked and left unconscious in two unrelated incidents on Friday night, leaving their mother angry it is not safe to walk city streets.

Groups of young people drinking and partying in the Woodhaugh Gardens leave a weekly mess of broken glass and vandalised play equipment in the park, say neighbouring residents.

The New Zealander whose girlfriend was found dead in a chilly bin in his United States hotel room, lived a lavish life of limousines, bars, expensive clothes and girls.

A riderless parking services scooter knocked down one pedestrian and narrowly missed several others in central Dunedin yesterday after it was maliciously set loose by a member of the public.

The lawyer who brokered a deal that led to the return of valuable war medals stolen from Waiouru Army Museum has defended the payment of reward money to get them back.

The body found in a Christchurch park on Wednesday is that of Dunedin boy Shaun Martin Finnerty (16), who ran away from a Child, Youth and Family home in Christchurch on Monday.

More than 100 people charged with killing others have been released on bail in the past two years, new figures show.