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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWhen rioters stormed into Kelly Hart’s street in east Belfast on Tuesday night, they threw a brick at the corner of her front window and seemed ready to set her home aflame. Hart, a mother of four, rushed to the front of her home and stood there to warn them off.“This is my house,” she told them. “Get the f— out.” Then she tried the best defence she could think of to let them know to leave her alone. She put two flags…

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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAATwo men have been sentenced over the brutal death of a 68-year-old Greenbushes man, with a court hearing how three men conspired to steal from him before brutally murdering him and disposing of his body in bushland.Raymond Smith was found by police near his home a month after he went missing in December 2023.The 68-year-old had been missing for a month before his body was discovered.FacebookThe antiques collector was described by friends as “one of the nicest guys” and a “lovely man”.Paul Douglas…

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[ad_1] Tim Sullivan and Hannah FingerhutJune 12, 2026 — 7:37pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAMinneapolis: A Minnesota man, who pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing a top Democratic politician and her husband, admitted he spent months identifying elected officials to target, and stalking them before driving to their homes in the middle of the night dressed as a police officer, intending to kill them.The attacks by Vance Boelter in Minneapolis last summer sparked the largest police search in state history and reverberated across the United States, with elected officials…

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[ad_1] Brought to you by BULLS N’ BEARSMurray WardJune 12, 2026 — 2:13pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAManhattan Gold Corporation has emerged from hibernation with a new name, a new board and a renewed focus on chasing gold, unveiling an ambitious exploration strategy across its projects in Canada and Australia. The makeover follows a significant boardroom overhaul aimed at transforming the company from a quiet explorer into an active player with drills turning across two highly prospective gold jurisdictions.Leading the charge is newly appointed non-executive chairman Gavin Rezos, a…

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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA bayside councillor has urged her colleagues to knock back a housing development proposal east of Brisbane on land currently home to a chicken farm and instead push for the development of tourism, sport and recreation.Redlands councillor Rowanne McKenzie will file a notice of motion at a meeting next week asking the council to vote for acting mayor Julie Talty to write to the deputy premier supporting an investigation into adding the land at Mount Cotton to the state’s urban footprint.Landholders in the…

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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWe spend so much of our time focused on oval-ball footy, it’s easy to forget that Australia’s great love affair, at grassroots level at least, is with the beautiful game. For many of you, tomorrow morning will be spent clutching coffee on the sidelines at a junior match, or pulling on cleats and shin-pads yourselves before grabbing a sausage (or if you play for the right club, a souvlaki) at the fundraising barbecue.Among children, soccer is the second-most popular participation sport after swimming,…

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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAVicRoads says almost all online services are back up and running after a week-long IT outage left motorists unable to register or transfer vehicles, renew licences or sit driving tests, a bungle that sparked accusations the agency’s $7.9 billion privatisation has failed Victorians.As of Friday afternoon, a portal used by second-hand car dealerships for new registrations and transfers was still down, but VicRoads said it hoped to have it back online shortly.Motorists had been unable to use VicRoads’ online services since last Friday.…

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