Picture of Jupiters Townsville Hotel & Casino in Townsville, Queensland

BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) - Prosecutors say greed and deception led an Alabama man to kill his new wife during their honeymoon in Australia, but defense attorneys countered on Tuesday that "bumbling" law enforcement officials had created a crime out of a tragic accident. Opening statements in the first-degree murder trial of Gabe Watson, 34, portrayed drastically different scenarios of how a ...

The lawyer for Gabe Watson has blamed the death of wife Tina on the Townsville dive company.

The lawyer for Gabe Watson has blamed the death of wife Tina on the Townsville dive company.

As Gabe Watson struggled to save his wife during their fateful Queensland dive he thought other divers in the vicinity would think "something odd was going on", Watson told Townsville detectives.

New evidence has emerged of a mutiny by black American troops based in Townsville during World War II as racial tensions exploded into exchanges of machine-gun fire between officers and men.The mutiny, among the worst in United...

Gabe Watson broke down in tears on the third day of his murder trial in Birmingham, Alabama.

Gabe Watson broke down in tears on the third day of his murder trial in Birmingham, Alabama.

BIOSECURITY Queensland field officers and an odour detection dog have surveyed the Townsville area after a recent detection of Asian honeybees at the Port of Townsville.

PROSECUTORS will concentrate solely on a capital charge of murder for money in the trial of Gabe Watson in the US.

PROSECUTORS will concentrate solely on a capital charge of murder for money in the trial of "Honeymoon killer" Gabe Watson in Birmingham, Alabama.