Anna Falkenmire

Police have combed the area and a row of charity donation bins have been removed after a man’s body was found wedged inside a chute. Investigators were working to piece together how the man died after a passerby made the grisly discovery near a Central Coast shopping centre about 4.30am on February 20. Emergency services were called to Wyong Road at Tuggerah, near Westfield, after a witness reported human legs were hanging from the clothing donation bin. Police said the man was “wedged inside th…

A woman is in a Newcastle hospital with serious injuries and an internal investigation is under way after a police car struck a pedestrian at South Kempsey overnight. A sergeant in a marked car was patrolling Middleton Street for a stolen vehicle believed to be in the area about 2.20am on Friday, January 5. “At some stage that police vehicle has collided with a pedestrian on the roadway, a 39-year-old woman,” Northern Region Commander Assistant Commissioner Peter McKenna said. Police believe at…

HOSPITALS across the Hunter New England will be hit the hardest in the state by “shameful” nursing cuts, amid staff shortages that already have health workers at their wits’ end. It can now be revealed the Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD) is set to lose 138.2 full-time equivalent temporary nursing positions when state government funding is slashed in a year. A Hunter New England hospital worker, unauthorised to speak to media, said she was shocked at news of the development, an…

A TRUCK driver has been hit with more than $3500 in fines and will have to front court after he was allegedly caught drug driving while suspended in Tamworth. The 62-year-old Queensland man was pulled over in Tamworth during a highway patrol operation targeting heavy vehicle compliance in the Oxley police area. Police said an oversized semi-trailer was stopped on Mahony Street about 8am on May 17, but the man behind the wheel failed to produce his work diary. Officers said they noticed “defects…

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POLICE are compiling evidence in the case of a man who was arrested after officers seized more than 60 guns from a home during a raid. Grant Thomas Peel fronted Gunnedah Local Court this week on 37 charges. The 28-year-old faces a maximum penalty of up to 20 years in jail if found guilty of possessing the alleged illegal haul of guns. Magistrate Te’res Sia did not require Peel to enter pleas to the slew of charges in court, and adjourned the matter to the same court next month, to check if offic…

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