BAGS of old clothes, boxes of books and furniture are typical Salvation Army donations, so volunteers were shocked when they found one donation stuffed with a fortune.

Fed children rat poison Then smothered to deathFour years' jail for manslaughter

DAY leave has been shut down at Thomas Embling Hospital following the stabbing deaths of two inmates.

THREE teenagers charged with raping and threatening to kill two men are at risk of fleeing to Lebanon, a court has heard.

A PSYCHIATRIC inmate is on suicide watch after being charged with the stabbing murders of two fellow inmates in a low-security unit of their secure Melbourne hospital.

A MAN accused of killing two people at a psychiatric facility has appeared in court.

POLICE have praised an Australia Post worker who handed in a parcel containing $100,000 she found behind a post office in Melbourne's south-east.

VICTORIANS were the "envy" of other Australians and Melbourne was the most liveable capital city in Australia by a "long, long way", Premier John Brumby said.

A WOMAN who stabbed her former lover's bull terrier 23 times has been sentenced to three years' jail.