30 Sep 09 | A six-year-old girl and a 50-year-old woman from Australian died in the Samoa tsunami.
30 Sep 09 | The Australian woman who died in Samoa after this morning's earthquake and tsunami was visiting the island to celebrate her 50th birthday with her husband, a close friend said.
30 Sep 09 | NEWCASTLE Jets have signed former Leeds United and Sydney FC striker Michael Bridges for the remainder of the A-League season.
30 Sep 09 | CENTRAL Hunter police have this morning arrested a man over an arson attack that destroyed a house and four cars at Cessnock earlier this month.
30 Sep 09 | SEVENTY-eight jobs will be lost at the National Foods manufacturing plant at Hexham when the plant closes next year.
National Foods Group executive of manufacturing operations Arthur Murphy sai
30 Sep 09 | PRIMARY school-aged children are showing aggressive and violent streaks which are leading them along a "criminal pathway" to major crime, a leading child psychiatrist believes.
30 Sep 09 | GRANDMOTHER Ida Elizabeth Garvey, 70, had never come under police attention until she twice took officers on high-speed pursuits through Newcastle inner-city suburbs within a few minutes.
That
30 Sep 09 | HAMILTON dentist Ashleigh Edward Jarrold tried to organise a sexual liaison with a 15-year-old boy while awaiting trial for child sex offences committed in the 1970s, a statement tendered to Newcastle
30 Sep 09 | AS Jets management weigh up the pros and cons of signing Michael Bridges, senior strikers Donny de Groot and Sasho Petrovski took matters into their own hands yesterday.
Desperate to end the cl
30 Sep 09 | FORMER Valentine-Eleebana junior rugby league club secretary Gary Payne reckons there is something special in the water at Croudace Bay.
Statistics support his suggestion that the fertile nurse
30 Sep 09 | THE head of Life Education in the Hunter says the children's education service is struggling to stay afloat because of the global financial crisis.
Executive officer David Baker said donations
30 Sep 09 | REDHEAD have broken new ground with the appointment of Warren Boyd as their inaugural bowls development officer.
The 57-year-old former primary school headmaster started in the role yesterday a
30 Sep 09 | DAVE and Kerrie Burt still remember their heartache after the 2001 National Rugby League grand final.
The Redhead couple and devoted parents of Parramatta flyer Luke Burt admit they were one of
30 Sep 09 | THE Hedleys need only look at their twin boys to be reminded how vital it is to know CPR.
The Singleton parents of five faced losing their sons, Seth and Braith, 5, when they found them lifele
30 Sep 09 | TOP Gold Coast jockey Scott Galloway had no trouble finding his way round Broadmeadow racecourse yesterday when he rode Hume.
Galloway was flown to Newcastle by Queensland trainer Brian Smith t
30 Sep 09 | FRESH from her embarrassment at the hands of rapper Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York, country-pop sweetheart Taylor Swift has announced an Australian tour, which includes Newcastle
30 Sep 09 | HONG KONG-based jockey Darren Beadman will take over from the injured Jim Cassidy on tough Newcastle mare Fritz's Princess at Randwick on Saturday.
Beadman's main purpose in riding at the meeti
30 Sep 09 | BY full-time on Sunday we'll all know whether Parramatta, the Flash Harrys of football, have Harlem Globetrotted their way to the title or whether they needed a little more of Melbourne's control and
29 Sep 09 | RICHARD Clarke has spent his life barracking for the Parramatta Eels, just like his father before him, and his sons ahead seemed sure to follow.
But breaking the family legacy, and possibly Mr
29 Sep 09 | ONE of the youngest people ever to be charged with armed robbery is also accused of aiming a replica pistol at a Muswellbrook shop employee and pulling the trigger.
The boy, 10, has been charge
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