Tag: crime

Two men jailed after fatal stabbing

A repeat offender and an accomplice were ordered held in jail on Monday, charged with murder or accessory to murder after a fatal stabbing...

Husband cleared after wife disappeared

It's been six years since Anne-Elisabeth Hagen, wife of a wealthy Norwegian businessman, disappeared from the family's home in Lørenskog, northwest of Oslo. Now...

Dead swindler charged posthumously

A prominent lawyer in Stavanger who'd carried on a fictitious lending operation for years has been charged with swindling friends, relatives, business associates and...

Belgian soldiers sentenced to jail

Six of eight Belgian soldiers who were arrested after a street brawl in Åndalsnes last winter have been found guilty of exaggerated violence and...

Racist attack in Bergen sparks outrage

Police in Bergen have reopened an investigation into a racially motivated attack on a local football player last month. The attack sparked strong public...

Plot thickens around Norwegian tied to pager explosions

Norway's domestic intelligence agency PST has confirmed that Oslo police are looking into questions flying around a man with both Norwegian and Indian citizenship...

Small historic community faces huge rape case against its former doctor

Frosta, the smallest municipality in the Norwegian county of Trøndelag, is best known as a foundation of Norway's legal system since Viking times. Now...

Shootings in Bergen and Haugesund

Police in Bergen and Haugesund were investigating two shooting episodes in both west coast cities this week. Police quickly armed themselves after finding a...

Government launches a war on crime

Norway's Labour-Center government has launched a war on crime, after what it calls a "brutal" summer marked by stabbings, shootings and gang wars, much...

Stavanger mayor confirms her resignation

After a week of political drama in Norway's oil capital of Stavanger, its mayor from the Conservative Party has confirmed she's resigning after misuing...
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