A NSW local council – blamed yesterday by a coroner for the deaths of five family members in a road collapse it could have prevented with $277,000 of repairs – was engaged in a high-risk overseas investment strategy that incurred potential losses of $22 million of ratepayers’ money.
GORDON Wood’s murder trial was sensationally aborted after a judge found a number of jurors had probably “misconducted themselves” and were planning a secret night-time visit to the site of the alleged killing.
FORMER Olympic swimmer Scott Miller and Mark Catchpole, son of ex-Wallaby great Ken Catchpole, have been charged with drug offences.
TWO former judges have pulled out of the 2020 Summit barely a week before they were due to join a debate on the republic.
THE mother of a woman who was shot by her husband has told a Sydney court of her pain at having to comfort her daughter’s killer as he feigned grief.
LYNNE Miller knows the difficulties of raising an autistic child. But she is also well-acquainted with the daily frustrations of dealing with the wider community’s ignorance of the condition.
PAPARAZZO Jamie Fawcett has lost his court bid for compensation from a Fairfax newspaper that labelled him “Sydney’s most disliked freelance photographer” and claimed he was determined to wreak havoc on Nicole Kidman’s private life.
ONE-TIME drummer for Mental As Anything, David Twohill, has won his wrongful dismissal claim against his former bandmates.
HEATH Ledger’s death has focused attention on a new wave of drug abuse that is sweeping Hollywood and has found its way to Australia.
ONE of the men named at the inquest into the death of cruise ship passenger Dianne Brimble has fled the country, leaving Australia on a one-way ticket to Serbia last month.
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