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Crime stats say NSW is a safer place to live

Police

Ilya Gridneff Don't believe the radio shock jocks, NSW has become a safer place to live according to crime statistics released on Wednesday.

When a dinner complaint got out of hand

Restaurant stabbing

Ilya Gridneff Jamil Hossain clearly remembers what he ordered for his five friends at the Red Chilli restaurant in Lakemba after celebrating Bangladesh's Independence Day on March 31.

Biker cop on the bikie trail

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Nick Ralston It takes an hour and a half of questioning but finally Detective Superintendent Arthur Katsogiannis confesses.

An enduring passion play: Easter stirs our faithful

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Damien Murphy Early on Friday morning three generations of the Bejjani family will set out on their Good Friday pilgrimage to Punchbowl.

Search for mother of 'beautiful baby' Ahn, abandoned at Sydney hospital

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Anna Patty A public appeal has been made to find the mother of a baby boy abandoned just hours after he was born at Canterbury Hospital last week.

Morning Express: Wednesday, March 13

Rachel Olding Morning Express is a live news blog produced each weekday from 6am-9am, covering the latest headlines, weather and transport.

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Sports stars 'targeted' by Asian crime syndicates

Football.

John Silvester POLICE fear international match-fixing syndicates are grooming Australian sports stars as part of long-term plans to infiltrate local competitions.

Petrol stealing fuels Sydney fraud increase

Anna Patty Fraud in Sydney's inner suburbs has increased by almost 23 per cent in two years, with petrol stations, supermarkets and chemists suffering most.

Secrets and lies in the histories of overseas babies

Korean adoptee - the truth about Korean adoption process.
Pictured is adoptee Kim Myung Soo as a baby with her sister in Korea.
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photo: Steven Siewert

Esther Han UNTIL she was in her late 20s, Kim Myung-Soo believed she was put up for adoption because she was born out of wedlock to South Korean factory workers.

Police try to identify Sydney road victim

Police are pleading for public help to identify a man found critically injured on a busy road in Sydney's south-west.

Post office gives its old home new lease of life

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Anthony Dennis THE latest mail from Leichhardt is in. The post shop has left the local shopping centre and sent itself back to its original address - the National Trust-listed building halfway along Norton Street,...

Sharia poses problems, says judge

Gerard Brennan

Geesche Jacobsen THE idea sharia could operate as part of Australian law was ''misconceived'' and minority practices that offend moral standards should be abandoned, the former High Court judge Sir Gerard Brennan...

Sydney residents flee shop fire

A shop fire in Sydney's inner west has forced about 20 people to flee their homes.

Teen accused of killing Thomas Kelly went on crime spree: police

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Rachel Olding, Lisa Davies, Nick Ralston The man accused of murdering Sydney teenager Thomas Kelly, 18, in Kings Cross this month went on a crime spree lasting more than an hour, punching four people in total, police said.

Man seriously hurt in road rage bashing

A man is in a serious condition in hospital after being bashed with a baseball bat during a suspected road rage incident in Sydney's inner west.

Teen's skull fractured in 'gang-style' attack

A youth has been charged over a gang-style attack in Sydney's inner west that left a teenager with a fractured skull.

The machines that are draining a city

Pokie punter playing at  the Hastings Club which will be effected by the new gaming regulations.

Matthew Moore and Jacob Saulwick At 2.30 on Sunday morning, one of the state's largest clubs starts handing out $100 notes.

Club staff to tackle conduct course

Kelly Burke Workplace FIRST it was the players who were targeted, and now it is the administration staff.

Mother of all journeys

Rachel Browne PREGNANT women are being bumped from NSW hospitals despite having booked in, as the baby boom and an increase in birth complications put more pressure on maternity units.

A leap of faith for church and state

Easter

Andrew West The Princes of the Church arrayed themselves across the stage, jostling – albeit diplomatically – for space and attention.