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  • Six years jail for Thai sex ring plot

    A FORMER teacher will serve more than six years in prison for plotting to start a doll making business in Thailand as a front for a sex ring involving fellow convicted ...

  • Lotto life for two lucky WA winners

    The winning Division 1 tickets in Saturday night’s draw, worth $607,042 each, were bought from outlets in the Goldfields town of Boulder and the Perth suburb of Merriwa.Boulder News and Lotto manager Mandy Kearnes said there was a buzz of excitement in the town. "We were just as excited to sell the winning ticket as we would have been if we had actually won the prize," she ...

  • Man on trial for abusing WA hostel girls

    AN alleged victim of child molestation told her friends "bad things" were happening to her while she was a student living at a state-run hostel, a Perth court has ...

  • Aus unions seek to re-unionise Rio’s Pilbara iron ore mines

    Two powerful trade unions are to work together after years of inter-union hostility to try and end Rio Tinto's 15,000 strong non-union workforce policy at its Pilbara iron ore ...

  • Fatal crash being investigated

    At 3.50pm, the woman was driving a Daewoo hatch when it crashed into a tree in Ludgate Way, shortly after leaving a house in that street.Police would like anyone who saw the crash or saw the car prior to the incident to call Crime Stoppers on 1300 333 ...


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  • Pendletons alleged sex plan conspirator acquitted

    Perth 6000 A Supreme Court jury in Perth has acquitted a convicted sex offender of planning to travel overseas and commit further offences against children.Kenneth Bishop stood trial with another convicted offender, Mark Pendleton, accused of planning to travel to Thailand after they were released and sexually abuse children.It was alleged the men intended to start a doll making business to ...

  • Search for helicopter believed to have crashed

    Gingin 6503 A search is under way for a helicopter that is believed to have crashed near Gingin, 90 kilometres north-east of Perth.Authorities received a mayday call from the helicopter's pilot just before 1:00 pm.(AWST)Air crews are now searching a large area near Muckenburra, 18 kilometres north west of Gingin.It is not known how many people on board or whether they have sustained any ...

  • Police look for missing brothers in Wheatbelt

    Kununoppin 6489 Police are looking for two children believed to be missing in the Kununoppin area in the Wheatbelt.Bailey Carroll, 14, and his 12-year-old brother Lochlyn, 12, are believed to have disappeared from their grandmother's house sometime overnight. Bailey Carroll has brown hair, is fair skinned with a thin build, and is wearing an aqua coloured t-shirt, dark grey shorts or ...

  • Swan hopes for WA change of mind

    TREASURER Wayne Swan has criticised the West Australian government for not signing up to the commonwealth's school education and disability care ...

  • Inquest into plane chopper collision

    Procedures of two government departments during a joint goat culling operation in the Gascoyne that resulted in the death of a pilot and his passenger are under the coronial microscope at an inquest.State Coroner Alastair Hope is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of pilot Bradleigh Michael Roulston, 23, and Department of Agriculture spotter Daniel Joseph Kean, 45, on February ...

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