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Madeline Crittenden is a reporter for The Sunday Telegraph. She joined in 2021 after covering crime and courts for several mastheads throughout NSW.

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WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. , PLEASE CONTACT WEEKEND PIC EDITOR JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING. , Mackenzie Blake - who was killed by a drugged driver in November 2021. With her brothers Jordan and Rowan (l-r)

Drug drivers overtake drunks to top road deaths

NSW Police are cracking down on drug drivers as they now account for more deaths on NSW roads than drunk drivers.

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Toes cut off in savage kidnap torture over stolen coke

Three kidnap victims were tortured over more than $25m of stolen cocaine, police claim, with fingers and toes chopped off in the horrific alleged attacks. Warning: Graphic.

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Victim murdered on his doorstep named as man arrested

A man has been charged with murder after he allegedly stabbed another man in the chest as he opened his front door.

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WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. MARCH 27, 2024. PLEASE CONTACT WEEKEND PIC EDITOR JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING.Pictured with Dr Steve Vucic is Luca Cacciotti who has ALS, a fatal motor neuron disease and is being given Tofersen, a new drug that has been administered for the first time in a NSW public hospital. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Sydney man first to try drug that gives some MND patients glimmer of hope

What started as some weakness in his ankle and a slight limp has progressed to Luca Cacciotti needing a wheelchair to get around. A new drug treatment has given him hope for the first time in months.

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Nurses in crisis: ‘Emergency departments are like war zones’

Nurses in hospitals across NSW say they are working double shifts, skipping meal breaks and returning to work less than eight hours after finishing their prior shift – yet there still isn’t enough staff to keep on top of their patient loads.

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25/08/2008 FEATURES: A student cheats in an exam by writing on the palm of her hand. Cheating. Books. Pen. Paper. Cheat.

Busted: Hundreds of students caught cheating in HSC exams

From secret notes and collusion to plagiarism and sneaky electronic device use, there were almost one thousand cases of students cheating in the 2023 HSC.

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WARNING. WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. MUST TALK WITH PIC ED JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING. Mum’s song of hope inspires premmie parents across Australia. , Singer-songwriter Alana Wilkinson has struck a chord with parents caring for their sick and premature babies in neonatal units across the country after releasing a new single inspired by her ‘miracle’ son’s own fight for survival., Her baby, Rafferty, weighed just 704 grams when he was born four months’ premature at Mater Mothers’ Hospital in South Brisbane at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic., The Byron Bay-based folk singer spent the weeks after her son’s birth in October 2021 playing her ukulele and singing to Rafferty as he slept in his incubator in the hospital’s Neonatal Critical Care Unit (NCCU) – and it was in the NCCU that she wrote and composed ‘Dream Big’., Alana and Angus with baby Rafferty.

Mum’s song for critical care baby strikes chord with other parents

For parents of sick babies, Neonatal Critical Care can be a place of fear and heartbreak. For singer Alana Wilkinson it’s where she first held her miracle baby, married, and made music about her son’s fight to survive.

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ARE FIND TODAY ON ILLAWARRA COASTAt 9:30am on Thursday 21st of March, we received a call to the ORRCA 24/7 Rescue Hotline from members of the public who witnessed a live whale calf stranded near Windang, on the Illawarra Coast in NSW.Specialist ORRCA Rescue Team Members arrived within 30mins to find the whale calf had sadly passed away.The whale was identified as a sperm whale calf, a deep water species of toothed whale. Sheets were placed over the young whale as to preserve it for necropsy through Taronga Zoo Sydney and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, to help gain an understanding as to how it came about to be on the shores at Windang.

Baby sperm whale dies after beaching on south coast

ORRCA crews believe the whale may have been abandoned by its mother or gotten lost prior to its beaching.

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A large commercial quantity of cannabis was seized at Bowmans yesterday, 19th March 2024 . Picture: SA Police

Truck ‘stacked with pot’: Cops make $180K cannabis arrests

A grow-house has been shut down and almost $200,000 worth of cannabis plants seized after a month-long investigation.

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SATURDAY TELEGRAPH. MARCH 15, 2024.Pictured outside the Emergency Entrance at St Vincents Hospital today is Associate Professor, Dr Paul Preisz, with Nurses Zenaida Dorabjee and Darren Scott. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Patients jam hospitals as GPs stop bulk-billing

As the number of bulk-billing GPs continues to plummet, hospital emergency departments are being flooded with cash-strapped patients who have ‘non-urgent’ ailments.

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