Terrorised day and night, the frightened residents who live on the lawless streets of a border town have been reduced to praying they won’t be next to have their doors kicked in, cars torched or be assaulted in their own home. They want change and they want it now. Here’s why.
It was an unhappy start to the day for a young Stanthorpe woman who allegedly returned a blood alcohol reading of more than four times the limit after crashing her car trying to avoid police. MORE HERE.
The New England Highway south of Warwick remained closed on Sunday evening amid lingering visibility issues after grassfires were brought under control.
Specialist police are investigating serious reports of threats to a number of health and medical facilities across the state. HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW.
Two women suffered injuries after two separate horse accidents north of Toowoomba, while three people were taken to hospital after emergency crews responded to two crashes within minutes on Saturday, and on Sunday morning a car ploughed into a house. Weekend news round up:
A courageous young woman has confronted the man who subjected her to more than 1000 acts of depraved sexual abuse in court, saying she had ‘transformed the greatest evil into something glorious’.
It has been revealed what happened inside a Toowoomba hotel room when a sawn-off shotgun blasted a 16-year-old girl, almost severing her arm and left her fighting for life.
Bystanders have rescued a toddler who was in a car rollover on the Warrego Highway before a young woman in her 20s was cut from the vehicle. The drama was followed by a truck rollover which spilt 30,000 litres of molasses.
Frontline officers are calling in sick and refusing to go out in marked cars for fear of being targeted by young criminals who know the system will protect them.
A magistrate has warned a coke can fan he may no longer be a “valued customer” at one of a small town’s only businesses following a bizarre late-night break-in.
From drug offences and fraud to assaults and domestic violence, and even attacking cops, meet the Southern Downs mums and dads who faced courts for their crimes in 2023. FULL LIST.
A man in his 30s has been hospitalised after he was involved in a single-vehicle rollover on the New England Highway. MORE DETAILS HERE.
A Warwick man who orchestrated an ‘atrocious’ attack on an innocent young woman and gave instructions over the phone to his co-offenders to commit acts of torture, rape and bestiality against her, has faced court.
Police have concluded their investigations after they located the body of a 55-year-old man at an address in Stanthorpe over the weekend. Full details here.
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