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Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested ten small-scale miners who staged a demonstration in Kumasi on Tuesday, September 12, 2017. They were arrested at Gyamfuah Park, where they were gathered, after police fired tear gas on them for an alleged misconduct. Public Relations Officer, ASP Juliana Obeng, told the …

Surgeons at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital spent Monday night trying to retrieve a bullet from the shoulder of a laboratory technician after he was shot by an unknown person. The spokesperson for the hospital, Mustapha Salifu, told Joy News the incident happened shortly after 2 p.m on Monday. The …

A 40-year-old man who admitted defiling a 13-year-old class two girl at Nyanshegu in Tamale has been discharged by a court in the Northern regional capital after the parents of the minor failed to produce her birth certificate. The Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit of the police service in …

Two Porters who stole cartons of confessionary worth GH¢12,000.00 from a warehouse at Okaishie have been sentenced to one year imprisonment each by an Accra Circuit Court. Zibo Mustapha, 25, and Rashid Amadu, aged 19 both from Niger were found guilty on the charges of unlawful entry and stealing. The …

One person is reportedly killed and two others injured during a robbery operation at Kasoa in the Central region. According to reports, the robbers wielding AK47 rifles stormed the house near Great Lamptey Mills School Wednesday morning for the operation. Adom News’ Kofi Adjei who followed the incident reported that, …

Police in Zambia have arrested two men “allegedly found having sex”, reports the state owned Times of Zambia. The pair – one aged 38 and the other 30 – were discovered in a guesthouse in Kapiri, a town in Zambia’s central province, the paper adds. Police spokesperson Diamond Likashi said …

The SSNIT software scandal has seen the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) begin a strict audit of all the transactions that took place. Head of the Authority, Agyening Boateng Agyei, is thus revealing that all persons found guilty in the wake of the audit will be slapped with 5-year jail sentences. …

A High court in Tamale has granted bail to a man brought before it on police charges that he defrauded and stole nearly one million cedis from a company he worked with to bankroll activities of the New Patriotic Party in the Northern region. The court had delayed making a …

One person was killed and two more injured on Tuesday night in a fresh fire exchange between residents of Tatale Sanguli in the Northern Region and suspected armed robbers, locals who engaged in the gun duel told Starr News. The incident happened at 8pm when two men armed with guns …

A husband has been jailed after his horrified wife discovered he had been repeatedly raping her in her sleep and filming the attacks on his mobile phone. The victim only realised what had been happening when she grew suspicious of an app on her husband’s phone called ‘Video Locker’ and …