Next steps for crash accused after incident left man in intensive care
A man charged with dangerous driving after a horror crash on the Bruce Hwy has faced a Maryborough court.
A man charged with dangerous driving after a horror crash on the Bruce Hwy has faced a Maryborough court.
The sentencing of a South Burnett woman facing multiple fraud charges, including one of $30,000 to $100,000, has been put off after the woman contracted Covid.
First, he threw a toilet roll at a guard. When it didn’t land, a factory cleaner turned Queensland prisoner took a milk bottle filled with faeces and fired.
A trawlerman, labourer and drug dealer has faced court after burgling two people’s homes and making off with items ranging from Apple watches to rolls of carpet.
Chelsea Maddox’s dreams of becoming a miner and mum ended on a Queensland roadside but three other lives were saved thanks to one conversation long before. VIDEO, UPDATES.
A brave mother’s powerful message for the parolee driver who caused her teen daughter’s death left them both in tears as a court heard of a horror driving history and tragedy just waiting to happen.
A ‘predatory’ granddad who put his granddaughter through a four-hour ordeal was caught staring at her bare legs in the weeks leading up to his attack.
A judge has thrown the book at a concreter with a vile history of abusing women, including most recently holding a gun to his partner’s head multiple times during an argument at a public park.
A jury has found a Brisbane man did not sexually assault a nine-year-old boy, following a two-day trial in Kingaroy where the man insisted his interactions were innocent.
A Gympie man who attacked a woman in Monkland St without any provocation or reason, left her unconscious and with multiple injuries. Now he is back on the street.
A Fraser Coast father who sexually abused his son confessed his crimes to a neighbour and later told police what he had done, a court has heard.
The owners of a Golden Beach home which had a Ford Ranger plough through the front of it last Monday have shown compassion towards the man who was allegedly behind the wheel.
A 48-year-old Gympie man suffering multiple injuries was freed from the wreckage of his car by a nearby resident after a terrifying head-on collision.
A father of two jailed for life for murder was back in court for brutally bashing and strangling his girlfriend a month before shooting Michael Zanco in the head.
An ex truck driver, previously jailed over the strangling death of a prostitute and for strangling a sex shop worker, has avoided trial on new charges after they were dropped at the last minute. Read why:
A 44-year-old woman charged over a fatal car crash that killed Mary Valley mother of seven Kathleen Dennis did not appear in court, and neither did her lawyers.
A man aged in his 50s has told a Gympie court he kept the gunpowder in his bedroom drawer to make fireworks.
As authorities struggle to deal with the region’s worsening domestic and family violence issues, these are some of the recent, bone-chilling court cases that illustrate its full horror.
A Bundaberg woman has faced court on charges of distributing and making child exploitation material and indecent treatment of a child under her care, and multiple counts of rape.
A 53-year-old crop farmer is charged with rape, deprivation of liberty, 10 counts of sexual assault, six counts of procuring prostitution, and six counts of watching or recording people in breach of their privacy.
A young Gympie man was lucky to escape serious injury when he rolled his ute with drugs in his system, then tested positive to drug driving again a month later.
A building company that has done $19 million of work since launching six years ago is at the centre of a federal court fight with the Australian Taxation Office, which wants the company wound up.
Emergency crews have responded to two rollover crashes in the South Burnett region.
A man in his 20s has faced court after riding his motorcycle dangerously in an inner Gympie street where two schools are located, and then fleeing police when they tried to stop him.
Two people aged in their 30s have been remanded in custody on a total of 30 charges that include drug trafficking and supply.
Police have renewed their plea for public help to find a Monto woman missing for almost three months and last seen on the Sunshine Coast.
A Queensland nightshift nurse has detailed the terrifying moment her home security-linked phone alerted her to teen intruders breaking into her house as her husband and three children slept. SEE THE VIDEO.
A driver charged with manslaughter showed no “respect” to a Hervey Bay mother after mowing her down, police have alleged as a senior detective makes a fresh plea for witnesses to come forward.
A regional Qld man with no criminal history has faced court over a wild incident in which he threatened to break a man’s legs.
Sunshine Coast police have charged 40 people with more than 190 offences following an 18-month-long drug bust, allegedly seizing cars, narcotics and firearms.
A forbidden romance between a glamorous Queensland jail guard and a convicted kidnapper led to her sacking. Now, the latest chapter in their relationship has landed him back in court.
A 23-year-old Brisbane man is facing multiple driving charges over a shocking crash that killed a Sunshine Coast mother only days before Christmas.
A child sex offender has returned to court after police found several mobile phones and an email he had not reported to authorities.
Police have given an update after a mum and baby went missing from Maryborough last week.
A former South Burnett crop farmer will face 22 charges including rape and sexual assault for alleged offences over a six-year period.
Police are continuing to investigate after two men were taken to hospital, one with a stab wound to his stomach, after an “altercation” at a Fraser Coast park.
A man who left evidence at one crime scene and also ran at a servo attendant with a hammer before taking a cash drawer has been lambasted by a judge for his poorly planned crimes.
A woman in her 60s has suffered head, spinal and abdominal injuries after a quad bike went about two metres down an embankment into a creek bed.
A man who once avoided jail time for molesting his niece after telling the court it was a one-off crime has landed back in court for similar offences against a second family member.
A man has been flown to a Brisbane hospital and the Bruce Hwy remains closed after a car plunged 10m down an embankment north of Gympie.
A Qld farmer and father of three took advantage of a broke backpacker’s desire to stay in Australia on a visa causing the victim significant trauma and a ‘fear of men’.
He was hailed a hero of Queensland’s hellfire horror, but one online chatroom conversation has resulted in this respected miner’s downfall, a court has heard.
A 34-year-old man who prosecution said had offending so bad there could be no restorative justice has had his sentencing delayed.
A pregnant Sunshine Coast mum, already on bail for fraud, has missed her ultra sound and fears she may give birth in custody after being arrested following an alleged crime spree.
A Queensland university staffer was supposed to be helping a young learner driver “get her hours up” when things took a terrible turn.
A workplace watchdog has confirmed it is investigating the death of a man on a sugar cane farm as Bundaberg Sugar shares a tribute to its ‘valued’ worker.
A man has been jailed over a vicious attack against his own father in which he punched the older man several times before placing him in a stranglehold during a fight.
How Queensland Health and police are responding to the death of an elderly man who was allegedly bashed with a walking stick at Hervey Bay hospital can be revealed.
A man remains in a Sunshine Coast hospital after he was trapped in a car after it was completely flattened by a truck on the Bruce Hwy yesterday. Pictures and details here.
A teenager convicted of armed robbery has found out what the next steps in his punishment are after he refused to meet with the victim.
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