Police are investigating a fatal, single vehicle traffic crash that occurred on the Bruce Highway, north of Calliope last night. Initial investigations suggest that just after 8.15pm a prime mover towing a trailer jacknifed and travelled off the highway. A man believed to be in his 40s was pronounced deceased at the scene. The Forensic […]
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A 37-year-old man is assisting police with inquiries following the armed robbery of a bottle shop in Mackay yesterday. At around 4.30pm a man entered the bottle shop on Evans Street and threatened a female attendant with a knife before stealing products from the shelf. The man then left the store but was tackled on […]
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A house has been destroyed and a man is unaccounted for after a house fire in Farleigh this afternoon. The fire occurred at a residence at Ridgewood Road at around 5.15pm. When emergency services officers arrived on the scene, they found the home well alight and a man residing at the house was unaccounted for. […]
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The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating a serious traffic crash which occurred on Webster Road, Chermside this evening. Initial investigations suggest at around 5.30pm a vehicle travelling east on Hamilton Road has impacted with a traffic island before hitting another vehicle which was stationary on Webster Road at the approach to a roundabout. The 50-year-old […]
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Police are currently at the scene of a fatal two vehicle traffic crash two kilometres south of Edmonton. Initial information suggests at 1.55pm, a utility and garbage truck collided head-on on the Bruce Highway. The male driver and sole occupant of the utility, a 75-year-old man, was pronounced deceased at the scene. The male driver […]
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Detectives from Gold Coast Child Protection Investigation Unit in conjunction with detectives from State Crime Command Homicide Investigation Unit and Child Trauma Taskforce have been continuing their investigations into the suspected murder of four-year-old Tyrell Cobb at Biggera Waters in 2009. Around 9:30pm on May 24, 2009 police were called to a Biggera Waters residence […]
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This afternoon the Queensland Police Service Academy, Oxley campus saw 89 recruits and three police dogs (PDs) graduate in an induction ceremony attended by Commissioner Ian Stewart and Mr Duncan Pegg, MP for Stretton representing Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services, the Hon. Jo-Ann Miller MP. Graduating as First Year Constables (FYCs), the 89 […]
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Continuing investigations into a man who allegedly fraudulently gained employment as a nurse at an Aurukun medical facility have resulted in further changes being laid. It will be alleged that the man used forged documents in order to gain employment as a clinical nurse at Aurukun. The man commenced duty at the health care centre […]
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Police have charged a man after a series of incidents in the Ingham area between 12 – 1pm yesterday. It will be alleged the man entered a Fanning Street residence disturbing a woman and three children inside. The woman and children left the house and the man followed them and allegedly attempted to pick up […]
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Detectives have charged a 24-year-old woman following an incident in Fortitude Valley last night. Police were called to a residence on Bonney Lane at around 11.45pm following reports of an alleged altercation. Officers will allege they attended and located a 42-year-old Fortitude Valley man with a stab wound to his shoulder. He was transported to […]
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