Hunter Valley bus crash driver Brett Button ignored passenger pleas to slow down, survivor Jennifer Warren claims

Hunter Valley bus crash driver Brett Button ignored passenger pleas to slow down, survivor Jennifer Warren claims

A survivor of the Hunter Valley bus crash which killed 10 people and injured 25 others has claimed driver Brett Button ignored passengers’ pleas to slow down and seemed to instead, accelerate. Jennifer Warren told the Newcastle District Court during Button’s sentence hearing how he was showing off before the bus tipped over at a … Read more

Young boy finds great gran’s body after murder by former deputy mayor Paul Cohrs

Young boy finds great gran’s body after murder by former deputy mayor Paul Cohrs

After Paul Cohrs gunned down his elderly mother in her home, he drove off and left his four-year-old grandson to find her body. The boy stepped into the kitchen on the afternoon of October 30, 2018, to see his great-grandmother Bette Schulz Cohrs lying on the kitchen floor covered in blood. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: … Read more

Father of three describes moment he was dragged under truck wheels on Blacktown Road in Sydney

Father of three describes moment he was dragged under truck wheels on Blacktown Road in Sydney

A simple fender bender has exploded into a terrifying road rage attack when a father was mowed down by a truck in Sydney’s west, police allege. Amin Saidawi, 40, sustained serious injuries when he slipped under a wheel and was dragged for 15 metres along Blacktown Rd, Blacktown in front of his wife on Friday. … Read more

Fresh report into deadly Luna Park Ghost Train fire in 1979 to stay secret as coroner weighs up fresh inquest

Fresh report into deadly Luna Park Ghost Train fire in 1979 to stay secret as coroner weighs up fresh inquest

Only a select few individuals will get to read a police report into a fatal fire at Sydney’s Luna Park more than four decades ago as a coroner mulls whether to launch a fresh inquest into the tragedy. NSW State Coroner Teresa O’Sullivan made suppression orders over a police report by Strike Force Sedgeman during … Read more

Powder snorting ‘deepfake’ of David Speirs should be reported to authorities, SA Opposition Leader says

Powder snorting ‘deepfake’ of David Speirs should be reported to authorities, SA Opposition Leader says

A video showing former South Australian opposition leader David Speirs snorting a substance from a plate should be reported to “the appropriate authorities” if it is a deepfake, Liberal leader Vincent Tarzia says. Speirs, who quit the leadership a month ago, denies he’s the person in a video and a picture published by News Corp. … Read more

‘Not about revenge’: Hunter Valley bus crash driver to learn fate

‘Not about revenge’: Hunter Valley bus crash driver to learn fate

A judge has warned killer bus driver Brett Button he can expect a lengthy jail term but told the victims’ grieving families “justice is not about revenge”. Newcastle District Court Judge Roy Ellis on Monday asked for restraint in the packed courtroom during an expected three-day sentence hearing for Button, 59, who caused one of … Read more

US man Fernando Cluster sues Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital Midtown for allegedly losing part of his skull following brain surgery

US man Fernando Cluster sues Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital Midtown for allegedly losing part of his skull following brain surgery

A US couple is suing an Atlanta hospital — in the country’s southeast state of Georgia — for allegedly losing part of a patient’s skull after it was removed during brain surgery because “several bone flaps” were lacking identification. Fernando and Maria Cluster are accusing staff at Emory University Hospital Midtown of negligence that led … Read more

Family’s heartbreaking message over Cobbitty bus crash that killed young son

Family’s heartbreaking message over Cobbitty bus crash that killed young son

The family of a schoolboy who was struck and killed by a bus outside his New South Wales school say they will “never be OK without him”, as they demand answers for the tragedy. Cameron Millen, 14, was waiting outside Macarthur Anglican School in Cobbitty, southwest of Sydney, when he was fatally struck in February … Read more

French woman Gisèle Pélicot tells trial of husband who allegedly drugged her, invited men to rape her

French woman Gisèle Pélicot tells trial of husband who allegedly drugged her, invited men to rape her

A woman who was allegedly drugged by her now ex-husband so that she could be raped by other men while she was unconscious testified Thursday that her world collapsed when police uncovered the years of alleged abuse. Speaking in a calm and clear voice, Gisèle Pélicot detailed with impressive composure the horror of discovering that … Read more