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Melbourne marathon 2015: Trengove, Milosovic claim wins with personal best times

Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Jessica Trengove and Brad Milosovic have taken out first place in the 2015 Melbourne marathon. Both runners ran personal bests, with Trengove finishing the race in two hours, 27 minutes and 25 seconds, and ... >> view original

Boy injured, fans evicted as flares fly at Melbourne A-League derby

Victorian Police will review crowd behaviour at Saturday night's A-League derby in Melbourne, which resulted in a number of evictions and a boy being injured. A nine-year-old boy was hurt and required treatment after he was struck with a plastic bottle ... >> view original

Melbourne Rising vs Sydney Stars: Melbourne win, both sides make semis

In a dramatic finish to the NRC home-and-away season, Melbourne Rising defeated the Sydney Stars by eight points to leap from sixth on the table to third and qualify for the semi-finals. However, the 18-10 victory saw Sydney stay just close enough to ... >> view original

Melbourne Festival: Flight Facilities pilots electronica to new MSO heights

The marriage of feel-good Sydney electronic duo Flight Facilities with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was an audacious one by the Melbourne Festival, but it proved canny: 12,000 tickets for Saturday's one-off show sold out in three hours. The 60 ... >> view original

Aggressive Melbourne CBD beggars earning up to $800 a day

Major Nottle feared they were impacting the community's views on Melbourne's vulnerable homeless population. He said that while some pushy beggars could snare huge money, their average daily haul was about $100 a day. In extreme cases some had ... >> view original

Police hunt Melbourne arsonist

Police are hunting for an arsonist who started a grassfire in suburban Melbourne earlier this month. Witnesses have told police a man set fire to grass on a roadside at Templestowe on the evening of October 8, amid dangerous bushfire conditions across ... >> view original

Mongolian Khan shows Melbourne Cup potential in Caulfield Cup win

Those looking further back from the winner from Saturday's Caulfield Cup for a Melbourne Cup tip might be ignoring the complete obvious. Mongolian Khan will have his penalty for the Melbourne Cup announced on Monday. He earned it with a brutal, tough ... >> view original

Real estate jitters hit auctions as Sydney and Melbourne show signs of cooling

The Reserve Bank of Australia said last week that there were “tentative signs of some slowing in the Sydney and Melbourne housing markets: auction clearance rates have fallen and price growth has eased in Sydney of late”. According to Shane Oliver ... >> view original

Man stabbed in the hand at Port Melbourne

A man was stabbed in the hand during a dispute in Port Melbourne on Saturday afternoon. The 23-year-old South Melbourne man was stabbed by another man in just before 4.30pm. Ambulance Victoria spokesman John Mullen said two ambulances were ... >> view original

Police investigating second Hawthorn player over alleged sexual assault

A second Hawthorn player is being investigated by police in connection with an alleged sexual assault. The Hawthorn Football Club on Sunday released a statement confirming that they had been informed by Victoria Police that a second player was also ... >> view original