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Jessica Baker is a reporter with Quest Newspapers, covering court, crime, and general news in Brisbane.

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In this pool photograph distributed by Russia's state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin receives winners of the Leaders of Russia national competition for public officials at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Sergei SAVOSTYANOV / POOL / AFP)

‘Paint, petrol bombs’: Russia heads to polls

Several Russians have reportedly been detained for various acts of vandalism during the first day of the nation’s elections.

Family Life

Mum forced to live in two-bedroom house with six kids

“I have been on the council list for five years. I live in a two-bedroom house with six children so I’m sleeping downstairs to give those kids my extra room.

Southeast

Court, jury, trial, courthouse, justice, Brisbane Court, Brisbane Supreme Court, Brisbane District Court, Queensland Court of Appeal

Retrial after Easter Sunday bombshell allegations

A retrial has been ordered in a case against a stepfather, which initially emerged after two young girls dropped Easter Sunday bombshell allegations four years ago.

Logan

Peter Henry Connell, 31. Picture: Facebook

‘Satanic’: Stalker runs loose in popular Brisbane suburbs

A 16-year-old girl has been left traumatised after a man, who allegedly believed he had to have “satanic sex” with 150 women, stalked her home.

Southeast

Shannon John Dennis, 44, of Buddina outside the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Wednesday, April 5, 2023.

Dad to pay servo worker $250 as sorry for ‘stupid’ bum grab

An employee at a busy Brisbane service station will receive just $250 compensation from a man who assaulted her while at work and in broad daylight.

Police & Courts

Ethan Macpherson has been charged with the murder of David Murphy.

Murder charge dropped against dad-killer

A young Ipswich man who killed a much-loved husband and dad-of-two on his 49th birthday has had the murder charge against him downgraded. Here’s why.

Southeast

Dr Albert Stuart Reece. Picture: Southcity Family Medical Centre

GP reinstated amid fears drug-addicted patients ‘may die’ without him

A popular Brisbane doctor whose medical performance was deemed “unsatisfactory” will be allowed to resume operations without conditions due to a lack of alternative services.

Ipswich

Maree and Rhiley Kuhrt, the son of a local police officer. Were onboard a Piper Cherokee aircraft reported missing late yesterday near Bloomsbury. Mr Kuhrt is head stockman and pilot at Nerrigundah station - Photo Supplied Facebook

‘Attached at the hip’: Ipswich mourns young family killed in plane crash

Ipswich is mourning the loss of one of their own, a young pilot born to a highly respected local police officer of more than a decade, as well as his wife and their unborn child.

Local

Brandon George Carr is accused of breaking into the Beerwah Fire Station and then stealing a car and assaulting a police officer while on bail.

‘I just shot someone’: Lover tells all before alleged gunman’s trial

“Go, go, go”: A woman has recalled the heart-stopping moment her lover allegedly rushed to the car she was driving, declaring “I just shot someone”.

Southeast

Fake drugs, pokies heists: Private schoolboy’s descent to ‘skilled fraudster’

A former private schoolboy has been caught selling sugar as drugs and stealing thousands of dollars from pokies machines at community clubs across Brisbane’s south.

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