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- 84-year-old sentenced to €1,000 fine for shoplifting in Liezen
- Car fraud in Waidhofen an der Thaya: police seek 52-year-old
- 63-year-old cyclist attacked and beaten in Kufstein – witnesses sought
- Drugs at the wheel and no driving licence: three drivers charged on Salzburg roads
- Former Cobra officer as poison victim: cellmate acquitted in Graz
- Phone fraud in Styria: state police warn of fake officials and shock calls
- Sexual harassment in Carinthian civil service: third trial day imminent
- Fraud trial in Leoben: married couple accused of defrauding woman over 90 of €150,000
- Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht sentenced to €34,500 – hotel bill in Tyrol
- Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht sentenced to €34,500 fine – fraud case in Innsbruck
- Carinthian dentist in Graz sentenced to €90,000 fine
- Cyberattack on Vienna: 26,000 documents and data from 6,000 people stolen
- Klagenfurt Airport: Sixth suspect in Lilihill case – expert report in focus
- Knife wound to back: woman from Liezen district sentenced to four years imprisonment
- Major traffic crackdown in Vienna: over 1,100 notices issued and one kilogramme of cannabis seized
- Assault in East Styria: 35-Year-Old Convicted and Fined €4,800
- WKStA requests extradition of SPÖ-nominated Kocevar over fraud and acceptance of advantage
- 37-year-old convicted of serious fraud: farm machinery worth €190,000 never paid for
- 19-year-old threatens Viennese man with meat cleaver – arrest in Landstraße
- Drugs at the wheel and serious defects: Salzburg police remove multiple vehicles from traffic
- Booking.com fraud in Austria: AK warns of fake emails and payment traps
- Drug raid at Jakominiplatz: Multiple arrests following targeted police operation in Graz
- Drug driving with child on A10: licence removed after alcohol and cannabis test
- Hate-speech conviction in Vienna: 60-year-old woman ordered to pay fine
- Murder charge in Graz: Ex-partner accused of strangling influencer and transporting body to Slovenia
- René Benko before jury court in Innsbruck: 660,000 euros in damages
- Internet fraud costs Carinthian woman over €100,000 – fake trading platform
- Knife attack in Bad Vöslau: police shoot suspected attacker
- Police shoot knife attacker in Bad Vöslau – woman seriously injured
- Cabaret performer Gunkl charged with child sexual abuse – public confession on Facebook
- 15-year-old flees from police in Ried – serious crash after drug-driving
- 17-year-old without driving licence flees police at 150 km/h in Steyr
- Austrian stopped at Lagos airport with €1.36 million in undeclared cash
- Officers in Salzburg attacked and injured during arrest
- 16-year-old flees police in Steyregg – loaded blank-firing pistol found in car
- 16-year-old flees police in Urfahr-Umgebung – blank-firing pistol found in car
- Signa founder Benko returns to court: retrial concerning €360,000 payment
- PKK membership: Man in Feldkirch charged with terrorism
- Armed robbery at post office in Vienna-Liesing: suspect arrested
- Arrest at Neustifter Kirtag: Wanted 35-year-old resists police
- Empty-bottle theft in East Styria: 37-year-old avoids conviction without criminal record
- Drunk Bulgarian crashes into e-biker in Dornbirn – five months conditional imprisonment
- Drug-impaired driving at 196 km/h on the A1: Syrian apprehended in St. Pölten
- Police large-scale operation in Donaustadt: 42-year-old threatened with gunfire, weapons secured
- Drug ring near Graz dismantled: 35 kg cannabis, prison sentences for three men
- Tattoo leads to arrest of Vienna acid burglary gang leader – apprehended in Bratislava
- Teenager flees on e-scooter in Vienna's Favoriten district: warning shots and €5,260 fine
- Murder victims in Austria: women more frequently affected than men, two-thirds killed at home
- Fake Shaman Marijana Mijailović on the Run for 18 Months; Austria Offers €5,000 Reward
- PKK member in Feldkirch sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment
- Death threats against wife and children in Vienna-Favoriten: husband arrested
- Taxi driver, 67, robbed and injured in Vienna-Floridsdorf – 19-year-old arrested
- Vienna murder trial: "Dark Lord" confessed to death of law student Jennifer S.
- Femicide in Vienna: Life imprisonment for Jennifer Scharinger's killer
- AI-backed cyber attacks on Vienna businesses: one in seven successful
- Life sentence in Jennifer Scharinger murder case – Ex-partner convicted
- Ex-partner sentenced to life imprisonment: Jennifer Scharinger murder trial ends
- Drunk Tyrolean without driving licence convicted after tree crash in Breitenbach
- Murder of Jennifer Scharinger: Ex-boyfriend sentenced to life imprisonment
- Vienna murder trial: 33-year-old admits to strangling Jennifer S. following 2018 separation