Days after a heartbroken neighbour described a devoted dad who died in a Central Qld house fire as the ‘glue’ of their tightknit community, a fundraiser has been set up to help his two daughters who have lost everything.
On this day one year ago Rockhampton lost two shining lights when Tayla Black and her 11-week-old baby Murphy Margaret were found allegedly murdered in one of the state’s most suspected horrific DV cases. See how the community is healing.
A former greyhound trainer and small business owner this week convicted of bestiality was back in court one day later.
A murderer who stabbed a Mackay mum 33 times in a frenzied attack has used blades to assault two men who boasted of abusing children. WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT.
A mum who carried out two armed robberies in one night had used drugs for half of her life and was jailed on her 20th birthday. Both she and one of her co-offenders were drug users.
Police had bottles of urine thrown at them and one officer was assaulted with a handcuff while negotiating with a man on the Capricorn Coast who had woken people with his drunken behaviour.
A grandmother’s cunning plan to rip off a Gladstone Big W store backfired when staff cottoned on to what she was up to.
A man was just about to make a getaway from a Gladstone street fight when police arrived to catch him and see the victim bleeding with a ripped shirt.
A Rockhampton businessman accused of extortion and computer hacking will have his charges go to trial by the end of the year.
A court has heard the shocking details of how a man pushed his partner on a bed before strangling her to the point where she couldn’t breathe. Her housemate had to intervene to stop the attack.
A ‘vulnerable little girl’ has poor body image and fears men after her grandfather molested her inside his caravan while visiting his son. She blames herself and asks why this happened to her.
Two men with no criminal records have fronted court on the same day for illegally growing marijuana plants at their homes, both giving very different excuses.
Nearly 1700 children were housed by the state in a year for a total cost over $700 million, with one child costing nearly $2 million.
Seven people lost their homes and belongings, with one losing consciousness and having to be rescued by a heroic police officer, after an offender torched their unit block.
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