Tragedy
Two women die in separate WA crashes, Perth man charged after police pursuit
This weekend has seen three serious traffic incidents in the state, two of them tragically involving fatalities in Carlisle and Norseman.
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Water safety
Body of missing fisherman found in Sydney river
Emergency services were searching for a fisherman who reportedly failed to resurface after going into the Nepean River.
- by Anthony Segaert
Heartbreak after young pilot, teen boys die in fiery Gippsland plane crash
Two teenage boys and a 20-year-old pilot who died in a crash involving an amateur-built light plane on Saturday have been described as “beautiful human beings”.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Three killed in plane crash in Gippsland
A pilot and two passengers have died in a plane crash in eastern Victoria.
- by Sherryn Groch
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Courts
‘I went into labour as a widow’: Wife’s heartbreaking testimony about killing of paramedic
Steven Tougher’s wife sobbed as she recounted giving birth to the couple’s child in the weeks after his stabbing death outside a Sydney McDonald’s.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
Woman dies in Forest Hill house fire
An elderly Forest Hill woman has died in a house fire on Wednesday night, believed to have been started from clothing being dried in front of a heater that ignited.
- by Shelby Garlick
Driver kills at least 35 people in ramming attack on crowd in China
Authorities took almost 24 hours to officially disclose the incident, which is one of the deadliest attacks in contemporary Chinese history.
- by David Kirton
Eleanor moved to Riddells Creek to help kids. She died saving them
She was a talented speech pathologist who made the world a better place, one child at a time. As grief reverberates through a small town north-west of Melbourne, parents are struggling to find the right words for their kids.
- by Cassandra Morgan and Marta Pascual Juanola
‘Enormous hole in our hearts’: Devastated family’s tribute for speech pathologist who died shielding children
Eleanor Bryant’s grieving family paid tribute to the heroic speech pathologist, who pushed children out of the way before a truck ploughed through a kindergarten playground in Riddells Creek.
- by Cassandra Morgan and Marta Pascual Juanola
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Victoria Police
Union ‘extremely frustrated and angry’ after worker dies from wind turbine crush
The Australian Workers Union says it met with site management two weeks ago to air serious safety concerns.
- by Melissa Cunningham and Lachlan Abbott
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Courts
‘We aren’t meant to Tase elderly people, but I needed to’: Officer’s alleged remarks
Senior Constable Kristian James Samuel White is on trial in Sydney over the death of Clare Nowland in a Cooma nursing home last year.
- by Sarah McPhee
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