Ben McClellan
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Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Firefighters reflect on fury of blazes more than three months before start of summer
EASING conditions have helped fire crews battling blazes on the South Coast but the danger is not over yet, with strong winds and high temperatures expected to hit northern parts of the state later today. → Read More
Murder charge after wife’s death in crash
A MAN who allegedly crashed a car killing his wife on the NSW north coast is expected to be charged with murder. → Read More
Former Eels halfback Chris Sandow filmed brawling in the streets
THE rugby league world is reeling after shocking footage emerged of former Parramatta star Chris Sandow brawling on the street in front of children, allegedly throwing wild haymakers and even headbutting a shirtless, barefoot opponent. → Read More
Grandfather latest victim of season water fatalities
A MAN has died helping save his grandchildren after they got caught in rip off a north coast beach. → Read More
Ice drug arrests: Police end year of investigation with multiple swoops
A LAKE Macquarie gym instructor has been arrested in front of his clients and charged with large-scale drug supply as $100,000, a BMW and drugs were seized. → Read More
Girl, 3, crushed to death by stone war memorial in Taree
THE heartbroken grandmother of the three-year-old girl crushed to death by a war memorial on Saturday said her family was “shattered” and the monument “should never have been in such a state”. → Read More
Camden arrests: Young mum arrested in MDMA drug sweep
A YOUNG mum is among seven people police allege are part of a drug syndicate dealing MDMA in south west Sydney. → Read More
Roger Dean, Quakers Hill nursing home firebug, loses appeal over sentences
RELATIVES of 11 nursing home patients who died after carer Roger Dean lit two fires can rest assured he will die in jail. → Read More
Gloucester crash: Truck flips carrying radioactive material
A TRUCK driver is in hospital isolation after she rolled her vehicle while carrying highly toxic nuclear material. → Read More
Soldier ‘indecently assaulted 13-year-old girl he met online’
AN Australian Defence Force member allegedly indecently assaulted a 13-year-old girl he befriended online after threatening to release revealing photos of her. → Read More
‘Ice’ ingredient bust: Pair charged over $2 million haul hidden in plastic letters and exercise gear
TWO men have been charged for allegedly trying to import more than $2 million of the key ingredient used to make the deadly drug ice hidden in large plastic letters and two exercise steppers. → Read More
NSW fatal crashes: Two mates among eight killed in horror weekend
TWO teenagers killed when the ute they were in rolled off a country road and down an embankment in Central NSW were “great knockabout guys” who both played rugby league for the same small club. → Read More
Grenade, drugs, cash seized as police smash alleged drug syndicate
A FORMER Comanchero bikie, allegedly the head of a drug dealing syndicate which supplied large amounts of the drugs ice and cannabis across south west Sydney and the north coast, has been charged as police seized a grenade, ice, cash and cigarettes. → Read More
Lithgow mum charged over string of police pursuits
A WOMAN allegedly rammed a police car and smashed into another car after running a red light in Lithgow in a series of dramatic police chases. → Read More
Fake passport: Hunt for passport fraudsters
ONE man has been charged and two more are being sought by police over a sophisticated identity theft scam using altered passports to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars. → Read More
Man quizzed as woman’s body found in blazing Guildford house
A WOMAN died in a horrendous house fire and police are expected to charge her husband after fire ripped through the family’s Western Sydney home where the couple’s two children had been asleep. → Read More
Cassie Olczak missing: Fears teen could have been given a substance before disappearing
POLICE have resumed the search for three young women in the Royal National Park south of Sydney after two 21-year-olds went missing in the same area as teenager Cassie Olczak. → Read More
Cassie Olczak missing: Fears teen could have been given a substance before disappearing
POLICE are now looking for three young women in the Royal National Park south of Sydney after two 21-year-olds went missing in the same area as teenager Cassie Olczak. → Read More
Most wanted first NSW target nabbed: Dane Moore arrested in Western Australia
THE first NSW target on Australia’s most wanted list was arrested more than 4200kms away from where he allegedly indecently assaulted children and assaulted several people but NSW Crime Stoppers boss Peter Price said he won’t be the last. → Read More
North Gosford crash: Two people accused of stealing victim’s handbag at the scene
AS paramedics worked to save the life of Kay Shaylor after a driver allegedly drove on the wrong side of the road crashing into her car two people allegedly stole her handbag. → Read More