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Laura Casey is facing the reality of turning off life-support for her husband, Seamus Casey, after the celebrated young Christchurch opera singer was hit by a car, leaving him in a coma in Sydney.
Casey, 27, attended Burnside High School and did a Diploma of Performing Arts at the Hagley Theatre Company before moving offshore to [...]

A Christchurch family are devastated their 20-year-old cat was handed to the SPCA and killed before they had a chance to save it.
The Clarke family of Halswell had Krumpet for 20 years.
Last Tuesday, father Gwyn Clarke was shocked to come home from work and find a note in his letterbox saying their female ginger cat [...]

Belleville police have released a photograph of a missing man’s recovered vehicle and are asking anyone who may have seen the car within the last two weeks to call investigators.
This is a very distinctive car and we’re hoping that it will generate a lot of leads for us, said Det. Peter Goulah, who is leading [...]

August is in full swing, school’s out, and on the streets of Leeds, teenagers are making the most of their summer holidays. But not in the city’s outlying suburbs of Seacroft and Gipton, where pupils are scampering down North Parkway at 8.30am in their neat uniforms, school bags swinging, to get to the David Young [...]

That is not how Nancy Magure sees it. She was born in Mogotio 45 years ago. Her parents, children and grandchildren all lived in the town but the mob armed with machetes, bows and arrows and Molotov cocktails that kicked in her front door at about 2am last Tuesday told her that as a Kikuyu [...]

So well done More4 for scheduling the first showing of No End in Sight, written, produced and directed by Charles Ferguson, which aired last Tuesday, the day it had been nominated for a best documentary feature Oscar.This was two of hours of riveting, epic viewing that rejected the opportunity to be obviously filmic (there was, [...]

LONGMONT When Alma Rico heard noises outside her apartment- leasing office last Tuesday, she looked out the window to see what the commotion was.
She saw a woman standing near a U.S. Postal Service truck refusing to go with Jesus Fabian Arvizu-Varela, 24, who moments earlier had been in Rico’s office trying to fax a [...]