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Pedestrian killed in Dandenong
A PEDESTRIAN was hit and killed by a car in Dandenong on Friday night. The 64-year-old woman was trying to cross Birdwood Avenue near the…
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Saved DNA samples link 1980s crimes
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD A BREAKTHROUGH in DNA research has led police to link an unsolved rape in Dandenong to a suspicious cold case death in…
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MP faces Parliament grilling
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS EMBATTLED MP Adem Somyurek has faced his first questions in Parliament a month after the launch of an investigation into allegations that…
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Epic smiles
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS The inaugural RASRA awards recently held in Dandenong could be given a national platform, Friends of Refugees chief executive Sri Samy said.…
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IPhone thief pulls up with fake gun
A MAN allegedly carrying a fake gun stole a teenager’s iPhone while they were waiting for a bus in Springvale South. The man approached the…
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Skates on for security
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS SECURITY around Noble Park’s skate park has been “ramped up” to deter adults and children from test-driving it prior to construction’s end.…
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School card buying spree
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS CHANDLER Park Primary School leaders’ spending of nearly $50,000 on their corporate credit cards in one year lacked “appropriate oversight”, an anti-corruption…
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Boy grabbed for backpack
POLICE are looking for a man who grabbed at a 10-year-old boy in Noble Park as he walked home from school. The boy was walking…
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Jail for murdering wife
A MAN has been jailed for 21 years after murdering his estranged wife at her Noble Park home in 2013. Bona Lual, 37, pleaded guilty…
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None of Our Business But…
A NEW take on pizza-with-the-lot made the menu in Dandenong Magistrates’ Court last week. A customer had helped himself to more than garlic bread on…
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Looking Back
100 years ago 8 July 1915 Heliopolis Hospital Cairo From the military hospital at Heliopolis interesting letters are to hand from Nurse Millicent Miller, who…
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$20m tax bill over shut down store
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A BUSINESSMAN has said he owes more than $20 million to Australian Tax Office and other creditors after the shut down of…