Tag: News
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”,...
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...
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...
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...
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 has...
$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...