Tag: News
Good behaviour bonds for drunken assault on PSOs
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A MAN and woman escaped conviction after pleading guilty to a drunken assault on two Protective Services Officers at Cranbourne railway station.
Harley...
Flinders still blue ribbon
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
THE safe Liberal seat of Flinders has remained blue ribbon, despite a 4.87 per cent swing to Labor after preferences.
Australian Labor...
Teen netted in carjacking crackdown
A HAMPTON Park teenager has been charged over one of the armed carjackings in Malvern last month.
As part of Operation Cosmas, two teenagers...
Snook and co sneak in as flash mob
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
SHOPPERS were stopped in their tracks when a flash mob of up to 40 people started performing some of Australia’s most loved...
Sign up call for CCTV database
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
STREETS in the south-east could soon be under 24/7 police surveillance as residents with CCTV systems are enlisted to be the eyes...
Relay team scouting for participants
MONEY means life for these fund-raising trailblazers at the Cranbourne-Narre Relay For Life.
Last year’s event raised more than $67,000 for research and prevention...
Apparel theft probed
THIEVES walked out of a Casey shopping centre last month with $800 worth of apparel.
Police have released an image of a couple they...
Families saved from ice storm
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
GLENN Munso, a former drug dealer and addict, is using his past life to save families cracking under the “ice epidemic”.
That’s...
Convenience raid
THE 7-Eleven in Cranbourne has been targeted again.
An offender, who was aged in his late 20s and wearing black clothing and white shoes,...
Crooked Forest explored in print
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
NOBODY knows why the trees in the Crooked Forest in Poland are just that, crooked.
But one young entrepreneur is trying to...
App fights street crime, successfully
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
ARMED with a smart phone, one Casey neighbourhood is fighting street crime, and it's working.
‘Telegram Messenger’ is the app of...
Dogs deemed healthy
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
WARRANTS executed by the RSPCA, police and veterinarians found Troy Scoble’s dogs to be healthy.
The 34-year-old Blind Bight dog owner escaped...