Saturday, August 27, 2016

Boy charged over brutal stabbing attack pleads for mum in court and other top stories.

  • Boy charged over brutal stabbing attack pleads for mum in court

    Boy charged over brutal stabbing attack pleads for mum in court Ashlee Mullany - Yahoo7 News on August 24, 2016, 10:54 pm The boy charged over a brutal stabbing attack that left a Sydney university student in hospital has pleaded to see his mother before being taken into custody.Twenty-six-year-old victim Jason Drury was allegedly stabbed multiple times by the boy in a random attack, and was forced to undergo emergency surgery for a collapsed lung.The 15-year-ol..
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  • NSW weather: Search for man missing in floodwaters as severe weather hits

    NSW weather: Search for man missing in floodwaters as severe weather hits
    NSW weather: Search for man missing in floodwaters as severe weather hits Updated August 24, 2016 21:00:35 Witnesses saw a man being swept away after his vehicle went into floodwaters near Lismore in far north New South Wales, police say, as a heavy downpour and strong winds hit the state's coast.Police were called after a man's vehicle was seen being swept from a concrete causeway into Leycester Creek at Larnook, between Lismore and Kyogle, about 3:00pm.Police said wit..
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  • NSW Premier Mike Baird slams Marcus Stanford's sentence over Stephanie Scott murder

    NSW Premier Mike Baird slams Marcus Stanford's sentence over Stephanie Scott murder
    NSW Premier Mike Baird has slammed the sentence handed down to the man who admitted he helped cover up the murder of teacher Stephanie Scott.Marcus Stanford, 25, sold the popular 26-year-old's engagement and graduation rings after his twin brother Vincent raped and killed her on April 5 last year, a court was told yesterday.Mr Stanford was today convicted and sentenced to one year and three months in jail, meaning he will be eligible for release on September 9 considering time already served. M..
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  • Geelong police went rogue by cutting station hours in half: minister

    Geelong police went rogue by cutting station hours in half: minister
    The state government has accused local police in Geelong of going rogue by cutting the hours of a police station in half without informing executive command or following proper process.Initially promised by the former Coalition government as a 24-hour station, the Waurn Ponds police complex has instead operated for 16 hours a day since its $15.6 million construction in 2014. Police Minister Lisa Neville (centre) has issued a stinging rebuke to local police over the reduction of operating h..
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  • Remains of Qld woman found in own backyard

    Remains of Qld woman found in own backyard
    Darren CartwrightAustralian Associated PressThe 15-year search for murdered Queensland mum Patricia Anne Riggs ended when a home-owner started building a retaining wall in his backyard and discovered skeletal remains.Ms Riggs, a mother of four, went missing on September 30, 2001 from her home in Janet Street, Margate.On Sunday, her remains were found in the backyard of the home she had lived in with her husband Edmund Ian Riggs, who had since moved to Dickie Beach.After a three day search by pol..
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  • Thieves fleece Vic animal park's lamb

    Thieves fleece Vic animal park's lamb
    Australian Associated PressA Victorian animal park has been fleeced of a four-week-old lamb named Ralph.In a baa-baric burglary, thieves broke into a Big Goose animal park shed on Mornington Tyabb Road in Moorooduc between 1am and 3am on Sunday.Police believe it was a targeted attack because the thieves rounded up Ralph and nothing else.The four-week-old lamb needs to be fed by a bottle to survive and has distinctive black markings on his face and ears and a round black spot on his right hoof.Po..
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  • Queensland stabbing: British woman killed by attacker who allegedly shouted 'Allahu Akbar'

    Queensland stabbing: British woman killed by attacker who allegedly shouted 'Allahu Akbar'
    A French man allegedly cried “Allahu Akbar” during a stabbing attack that left a 21-year-old British woman dead in front of up to 30 onlookers at a backpackers hostel in Australia’s north-east. The 29-year-old suspect allegedly repeated the phrase – which means God is greatest in Arabic – when arrested by Queensland police, who told of being “confronted with a terrible scene” at the hostel in Home Hill, about 100km (62 miles) south of Townsville, on Tuesday night. Mia Ayliffe-Chung...
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  • Woman escapes dangling car

    Woman escapes dangling car
    A woman has been rescued from her car after hanging from the top level car park at Westmead Hospital. The 50-year-old Newcastle woman reversed through a guard rail and was trapped in her car for about 20 minutes.Emergency services were called at 7.55am on Wednesday morning and arrive to find the rear end of the Mazda sedan hanging over the edge of the car park.Fire fighters secured the vehicle and the driver was able to climb out to safety.It’s believed the rear of the vehicle caught onto a fenc..
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  • NBN document leak: Conroy urges Senate to block AFP access to parliament emails

    NBN document leak: Conroy urges Senate to block AFP access to parliament emails
    NBN document leak: Dreyfus urges Senate to block AFP access to parliament emails Updated August 24, 2016 22:09:05 Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says he expects all senators to uphold Labor's claim of parliamentary privilege over thousands of documents sought by the Australian Federal Police.AFP officers today spent nearly 12 hours trawling through thousands of emails on the main server at Parliament House, in search of evidence Labor staffers leaked confidential ..
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  • Businessman's poll is an extraordinary move

    Businessman's poll is an extraordinary move
    OPINION: Gareth Parker, - The West Australian on August 24, 2016, 9:41 pm he revelation that leading businessman John Poynton has commissioned polling aimed at encouraging the Liberal Party to consider its leadership situation is really quite extraordinary.That Poynton acknowledges handing the polling, which tells an unambiguously bad story about the Government’s standing, to leadership contender Dean Nalder is also remarkable.Nalder was not in Parliament yesterday. He wa..
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