Tag: crime
MP downplays shoplifting charge
UPDATED: Bjørnar Moxnes, the high-profile leader of the Reds Party and a Member of Parliament, has admitted to being "very embarrassed" over charges that...
Pride victims honored amid new threats
Sunday marked the somber first anniversary of last year's attack on Oslo Pride, an annual week of events recognizing and hailing gender diversity. As...
Pride shootings ‘an attack on us all’
Justice Minister Emilie Enger Mehl addressed Parliament on Wednesday, in an effort to stress that the Norwegian government is taking last year's attack on...
Teenager charged with making poison
An unusual case was unfolding in Oslo over the weekend after emergency crews were summoned to an apartment at Bøler on the city's east...
Drunks spoil some 17th of May celebrations
Police were busy in many Norwegian cities after Constitution Day celebrations on the 17th of May. Unruly drunks including youth as young as 13...
Police brutality in Norway, too
Norway is known for its mostly unarmed and friendly police officers, but a few of them went amok against two young men in Kongsberg...
Youngsters suspected of arson at school
Police in Oslo suspect a group of youngsters, all under the age of 15, are behind an explosive fire at a high school in...
Russ on the loose again, and in hospital
Norway's graduating high school seniors known as russ (roughly prounced "roose") have once again launched their annual season of wild partying, and it immediately landed...
Even more cocaine seized, this time attached to a ship’s hull
Norwegian authorities mounted an unusual operation this month that resulted in the largest cocaine seizure ever in Western Norway, and the arrests of six...
PST’s deputy leader bails out
Hedvig Moe was acting leader of Norway's domestic intelligence agency PST until Beate Gangås took over full time in December. Now Moe is leaving...
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