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Dasha Havrilenko is a general and digital news reporter with The Advertiser and Sunday Mail.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 11, 2021: ADELAIDE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN POLICE GENERICS. Picture NCA NewsWire / Emma Brasier.

Revealed: Why cop file breach claims weren’t probed

A parliamentary committee has heard claims of police mental health support services being inappropriately accessed will not be investigated. Find out why.

Police & Courts

A front end loader in front of the bins, at Holcim concrete works, at Rooty Hill, today. (Story is about manufacturers being more sustainable as part of the net zero campaign). Picture: Justin Lloyd.

Flipping hell! Man overturns bailiff’s car with front-end loader

During an eviction on a business in Edinburgh, one employee has flipped out quite literally and used a front-end loader to overturn the bailiff’s car.

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‘The Click’: Ugly fight for police union jobs

A bitter war has broken out between candidates vying for the top positions of South Australia’s police union – with serious allegations against their current president.

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - September 14, 2024: Commissioner of Police for South Australia Police, Grant Stevens attends The Wall to Wall: Ride for Remembrance at the National Police Memorial in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

‘Irresponsible’: Police heads clash over rural roster cop rollout

The Police Commissioner and the police union have clashed over one of the key promises made the administrative agreement.

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Silhouette of a hacker isloated on black

She thought she was buying a house, but ended up losing $800k

Just one small detail in an email has cost a woman more than $800,000 of her savings in a cyber crime scam.

SA News

(L-r) Arnna, Grant and Jane Beaumont. Filed Sep 1966.Supplied family album style pic of The Beaumont children, Jane, 9, Arnna, 7, and Grant, 4, who disappeared from Glenelg, SA, on 26 Jan 1966. (Copyright unknown)

‘Fascinated’: Seaside residents welcome fresh Beaumont search

Locals in the Yorke Peninsula town want to put rumours the Beaumont children are buried there to rest after a media personality announced he was willing to personality fund a dig.

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Furious niece blasts MP’s Beaumont dig ‘smear campaign’

The woman broke her silence on Adelaide radio over dig at the former Castalloy factory site over the past week.

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Bailed teens allegedly go on wild rampage armed with machete

Two youths on bail have been arrested once again after allegedly going on a violent crime spree.

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Suspicious building fire in Prospect barber shop in the early hours of this morning. Witness Hakyeon Chung,29, of Prospect. 28 February 2025. Picture: Dean Martin

Shop fire terror: ‘I heard gunshots, I thought I was in America’

A suspicious fire has ripped through a barber shop near the city in the early hours of Friday, with locals reporting hearing “gunshots” earlier in the night.

Police & Courts

Three police officers and State Emergency Service crews remained at the scene of serious crash along Baylis Rd, Whites Valley, to determine how the crashed occurred in the early hours of Friday morning., , A portion of the road near Flour Mill Rd was blocked off, as investigators examined the scene, with fragments of debris from the vehicle seen on the road. Picture: Agnes Gichuhi

Man, 65, dies after crashing into Stobie pole

After fighting for life for two weeks, a man has died after sustaining serious injuries from a car crash in Adelaide’s south.

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