Archive for May 14th, 2008

A life in the fast lane, then an early death

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

SAMIR Ograzden, the man who died in yesterday’s shootout on a busy Melbourne street, was one of many young dealers cashing in on the city’s appetite for the drug ice.

Shoppers doing more miles in the aisles

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

AUSTRALIAN families are giving the big weekly supermarket shop the chop, an independent retail expert says.

Txt msg lingo is a ‘language renaissance’

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

DA lingo ppl use 2 txt n msg is not n fact bad 4 da lngwij skiLz of 2dayz teens.

Qantas flights ditched as air chaos looms

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

QANTAS has been forced to cancel flights in a bid to minimise the impact of tomorrow’s scheduled strike by its engineers.

Bungle landed Rowe in deadly conflict

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

SIXTIES superstar Normie Rowe fought in the war in Vietnam, but his birth date was never drawn in the conscription ballot.

Budget puts maternity leave on agenda

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

THE revamped Baby Bonus could be the first step towards a national paid maternity leave scheme.

Cops accused of ‘fixing’ mate’s breath tests

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

POLICE manipulated random breath-test results for their mates, a Police Integrity Commission is told.

Corruption blamed as toll rises

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

CORRUPT officials and dodgy buildings have been blamed for China’s mounting death toll.

Stolen formal dress recovered by sleuth

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

A TOOWOOMBA dress shop owner proved a teen prom queen’s relatives “stole the wrong dress from the wrong person” by catching the frock-lifters after a two-month-long sting.

Accused mum’s ‘greatest act of love’

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

A WOMAN drugged and killed her two sons, telling them they were going on a trip and had to take travel medicine, a court has heard.