Imathia

Police in Alexandreia in the northern prefecture of Imathia on Saturday detained a 48-year-old man and his 26-year-old son after a raid on their home turned up several weapons and ammunition.

Officers confiscated two pistols, three rifles, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a sword, brass knuckles and club and a home-made ax.

As low temperatures and snowfall continued to create problems across the country, Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis on Thursday ordered an investigation into why hundreds of passengers remained trapped on trains in northern Greece on Wednesday in the freezing weather.

Two parents' associations voted over the weekend to block child refugees from attending local schools, the latest in a string of objections to the government's initiative.

Some 100 people, mostly young adults, travelling to a northern Greece festival entitled “Eleftheria” (freedom, in Greek) apparently believed that the concept also extended to free travel by rail…

Ben Needham, who went missing while on holiday on the isle of Kos on July 24, 1991, would be 25 today. Over the years, his mother Kerry Needham has not stopped searching for the son that vanished after she left him in his grandparents’ care while she went to work at a local hotel. Previous leads have failed to come up with solid information but Ben’s family still keeps hoping.

A 17-year-old Greek high school senior from the northern Greece city of Alexandreia, Imathia prefecture, died on Thursday night in Rome, just over a week after falling from the second floor hotel balcony in the city. The teenager was on a school class trip to the Italian capital.

A senior from the 2nd High School of Alexandria, Imathia, northern Greece, last night fell from the balcony of a hotel room in Rome on a six-day school trip to the Italian capital.