Tag: crime

Farmer shoots wolf, police investigate

A police investigation is underway in Hedmark, the southeastern Norwegian county where farmers feel most threatened by wolves, after a local sheep rancher shot...

Ex-county governor faces prison term

The lengthy and sometimes shocking trial of a former county governor wrapped up this week, with prosecutors demanding that he be sentenced to five-and-half...

‘Kidnapping’ may have masked murder

Norwegian police are no longer sure that the still-missing wife of a wealthy Norwegian businessman was actually kidnapped last autumn. Now they think a...

Ex-minister admits to sex with refugee

Svein Ludvigsen was once one of Norway's most trusted top politicians. On Thursday he admitted in court to having had sex with a young...

Ex-minister denies exploiting refugees

One of the most sensational trials regarding alleged abuse of power in Norway got underway in the Nord-Troms County Court on Tuesday. Former government...

Kidnapping probe ‘enters new phase’

Police in Lørenskog northeast of Oslo say they've entered "a new phase" of the investigation into the disappearance and suspected kidnapping of a wealthy...

Russian charged in street stabbing

Police were describing a stabbing on the streets of Oslo Tuesday morning as a "very serious incident" that only ended after they shot the...

Police, military tied to weapon scandal

Norwegian police have revealed a fairly brisk illegal weapons trade, after finding and seizing stashes of more than 2,000 firearms believed to stem from...

‘I just decided to kill someone’

That was what a Norwegian teenager told the court during his trial  for the murder last summer of a 13-year-old girl at Varhaug, south...

Jewelry store robbers caught

Two robbers wearing ski masks and white overalls charged into a jewelry store in Kristiansand around lunchtime Thursday and held it up at gunpoint....
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