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Police are investigating the link between two vehicle rollovers and the alleged shooting of a man in a carjacking on the Sunshine Coast. The incidents led to the closure of the southbound Bruce Highway, causing traffic chaos on Easter Monday.

Woman killed, man shot in Easter Monday crashes and carjackings

Police have arrested a man and asked for motorists’ patience as they process and clear three crime scenes on the Sunshine Coast.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt

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Two people have died following two separate crashes west of Brisbane on Saturday.

Scooter-riding 12-year-old girl one of two people killed in crashes

The girl and a motorbike rider in his 60s have died in two separate crashes west of Brisbane.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
CCTV shows Crystal Beale leaving the Sunnybank Hotel.

Shoe found as police hunt Crystal Beale’s killer

Police have made a breakthrough in investigations into the death of the Sunshine Coast mother, whose body was found in the Brisbane River in February.

  • Cameron Atfield
The boat capsized at Main Beach on the Gold Coast.

Wave flips and capsizes boat, three men saved from sea

Three men have been taken to a Gold Coast hospital.

  • William Davis
The man was attacked with a machete outside his Camp Hill home.

‘Taking advantage’: Loophole uncovered in incentive scheme offering cash payments to Qld police recruits

A multimillion-dollar incentive designed to boost frontline police numbers was rolled out with a major loophole, enabling new recruits to accept cash payments and then leave within months.

  • Abbey Geran
Queensland Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski wanted a broad-ranging internal review.

‘Low morale, decreasing trust in leadership’: Top cop’s stark warning

Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski detailed his concerns about the force in text messages to the minister’s office, which inexplicably had his name saved as “Golschescsky”.

  • Sean Parnell
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Police found a woman’s body in the burnt-out remains of a house in Geham.

Husband charged with murder after wife’s body found in house fire

The 45-year-old man was arrested 200 kilometres away in Redcliffe after his wife’s body was found in the charred remains of their home.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Illegal tobacco bust in Eagle Farm, Brisbane last week.

Illegal tobacco wars light up across states as crimes rise in Qld

Fire bombings and ram raids on stores selling illegal cigarettes are spreading as governments play a game of “whack-a-mole” on the lucrative market.

  • Savannah Meacham
Strangulation was reported by nearly nine in 10 women calling Victoria’s 24/7 family-violence crisis response centre, Safe Steps, this year.

‘I could have died’: Jail time for strangulation to be doubled under Qld plan

In calling for tougher penalties, the Queensland Law Reform Commission says sexual strangulation has been normalised – especially among young people.

  • Cloe Read
Rick Thorburn was arrested in September 2016 and charged with Tiahleigh’s murder, 11 months after she disappeared.

Child killer Rick Thorburn found dead in cell

Thorburn, also a convicted child rapist, was serving a life sentence at Woodford Correctional Centre for murdering his 12-year-old foster daughter a decade ago.

  • Courtney Kruk

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