Agrinio
Neo Psychiko: 44-year-old man remanded in custody for the murder of the surveyor
The 44 year old man accused of the murder of the 54 year old surveyor in Neo Psychiko has been sent to prison with the agreement of the investigator and the prosecutor.
Murder in Psychiko: The contract killing of Panagiotis Stathis is estimated at 100,000 Euros
The contract killing of 54-year-old surveyor Panagiotis Stathis is estimated to have cost up to 100,000 euros, according to officers directly involved in the investigation of the brutal murder in Psychiko.
Investigation underway into death of woman in well
An investigation is underway into the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman whose body was retrieved from a well near Agrinio, western Greece.
The body of the 58-year-old woman was found in the village of Kyparissos on Monday after relatives alerted the authorities.
Police and six firefighters attended the scene and retrieved the body.
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Eurytania: The driver whose car fell from a 60-meter cliff has died
The traffic accident occurred on the national road Karpenissi-Agrinio at Kalesmeno location
Popular rapper nabbed armed
A well-known local rapper was arrested late on Friday night outside Agrinio in Central Greece in possession of illegal weapons.
The trap music artist was traveling to another Greek city to give a concert when he was stopped by police officers near the Riganis toll road.
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Seeking the cross: Icy dips mark the feast of Epiphany
Thousands of Orthodox Christian worshippers plunged into the icy waters of rivers and lakes on Monday to retrieve crucifixes tossed by priests in Epiphany ceremonies commemorating the baptism of Jesus Christ.
4.7 Magnitude Earthquake on the Richter Scale Was Registered in Greece
4.7 magnitude earthquake on the Richter Scale was registered in northern Greece.
Athens' Geodynamics Institute reports that the tremor struck at 6:08 p.m. (1508 GMT) Saturday about 30 kilometres northwest of the city of Agrinio at a depth of 28 kilometres.
There is no information for serious damages and injured people.
Meteorologists forecast slight dip in sweltering weather
After a sweltering weekend that saw temperatures reach as high as 39 degrees Celsius in the Peloponnese, meteorologists forecast a dip early in the week.
According to counting stations of the National Observatory of Athens, temperatures reached 38.9 in Messinia, 38.5 in Aitoloacarnania, 38.2 in Ileia, 37.7 in Agrinio and 37.3 in Trikala.
Teenager hospitalised with head injury during anti-fascist rally in Agrinio
A 19-year-old woman was being treated in a hospital in the city of Ioannina, in western Greece, on Wednesday after she was hit in the face by an object during an anti-fascist march in Agrinio to commemorate a 36-year-old rapper killed by a self-professed member of Golden Dawn five years ago.
Doctor shortages leave hospitals struggling to cope
Shortages in doctors have created problems in the operations of key departments at several hospitals.
"We have warned that the problem of understaffing at hospitals will explode and hospitals will collapse," Panos Papanikolaou of the Federation of Greek Hospital Doctors' Unions told Kathimerini.