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An eight-year-old boy is also in hospital after being bashed with a baseball bat.

The 19-year-old’s body was found partially submerged following a night out with friends and police are now asking for the public’s help.

Eight people allegedly broke into the house at 5pm, wearing face coverings.

One of the boys was ejected from the car and thrown five metres upon impact.

Stephan Wagner, 62, allegedly spent months spiking his wife Glenda’s tea with insecticide.

The 38-year-old woman suffered horrific injuries just days before she was due in court.

All available emergency services have scrambled to the scene of an airplane crash at a rural airstrip with one fatality confirmed.

A woman has been shot dead in a callous drive-by shooting with police immediately forming a strike force to hunt down the perpetrators.

A man in his 20s is dead and another is in a critical condition after being pulled from the surf in the Port Stephens area, north of Newcastle.

The nine-year-old was treated at the scene for gunshot wounds to his neck but couldn’t be saved.

A nine-year-old boy was shot and killed, and a man and another boy have been charged over the death at a rural property.

The boy was shot in the neck and could not be saved.

The alarm was raised when the woman did not return to shore.

Police are conducting a manhunt after a woman was allegedly attacked in her apartment and stabbed in the head.

Marking one year since one of Australia's worst mass killings is important for community healing, experts say, even if its traumatic for some.