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  • Boy charged in Bingle theft

    A 14-year-old boy has been charged with stealing model Lara Bingle’s prized Aston Martin.

    January 19, 2010, 11:00 am

  • Warning on rocks thrown at cars

    Motorists driving on Tonkin Highway in Noranda are urged to take care after police received reports of youths throwing rocks and eggs at passing vehicles.

    January 19, 2010, 10:56 am

  • 500 homes still without power

    About 500 homes across Perth were still without power this morning after some transformers could not cope with yesterday's hot weather.

    January 19, 2010, 10:24 am

  • Stosur survives dip to move into second round

    Samantha Stosur has overcome a poor Australian Open build-up to progress to the second round at Melbourne Park with a tough three-set win over Chinese qualifier Xinyun Han.

    January 19, 2010, 10:07 am

  • Mayday call sparks sea search

    No sign has been found of a vessel in distress after a commercial fishing boat in the South West received a may day call last night.

    January 19, 2010, 9:34 am

  • Man missing near Tom Price

    A search resumed this morning for a 39-year-old man missing about 60km north-east of Tom Price since yesterday.

    January 19, 2010, 9:33 am

  • Mouse is here to stay: computer expert

    Forget about throwing out that keyboard and mouse - they're here to stay, an expert in human-computer interaction says.

    January 19, 2010, 8:44 am

  • Traffic builds into city

    Motorists on Great Eastern Highway have been advised to take care around the small town of Clackline about 70km east of Perth because of smoke from a bushfire blowing across the road.

    January 19, 2010, 8:26 am

  • Simple pleasures add up to long life

    What do you give a man of great age who wants for nothing and who has lived a simple life for 99 years?

    January 19, 2010, 8:17 am

  • New Norcia's last Spanish monk dies

    The last Spanish monk of New Norcia, Dom Paulino Gutierrez, has died at the age of 99.

    January 19, 2010, 8:13 am

  • Funding to move grain by trains

    Transport Minister Simon O'Brien yesterday announced a multi-million dollar fund to entice farmers to use the more expensive rail network instead of road to transport grain for the 2009-10 harvest.

    January 19, 2010, 8:00 am

  • Looters rule Haiti's capital

    Roving bands of hundreds of looters on Monday swarmed across Port-au-Prince, while police and military officials tasked with protecting Haiti's quake-stricken capital were nowhere to be found.

    January 19, 2010, 7:54 am

  • Violence grows in desperate Haiti

    Haiti relief efforts have stepped up with the arrival of thousands more US Marines, while doctors and aid workers have been struggling to save lives and stave off disease six days after the quake.

    January 19, 2010, 6:09 am

  • Cop fined $5000 for fiancee attack

    A police officer who knocked his former fiancee unconscious during the breakdown of a "toxic" relationship, which began as a secret affair when the two recruits from Britain met at the WA Police Academy, was fined $5000 yesterday.

    January 19, 2010, 5:37 am

  • Brock memorial gets council nod

    A permanent memorial to motor racing legend Peter Brock will be built in Gidgegannup near the site of his death in a car crash almost four years ago.

    January 19, 2010, 5:35 am

  • Joey's ears sliced off in cruel attack

    The mutilation of a joey which had both its ears sliced off has shocked wildlife carers.

    January 19, 2010, 5:35 am

  • City seeks ideas for future Perth

    Reconnecting the city to Parliament House, increasing public activity at Langley Park and transforming the former Emu Brewery site are among a dozen projects earmarked in a $100,000 City of Perth "ideas competition".

    January 19, 2010, 5:32 am

  • Lotterywest axes link to 'violent' Skyworks

    One of the major sponsors of the Australia Day Skyworks, Lotterywest, has asked for its name to be no longer associated with the event after 15 years and has refused to guarantee funding next year amid growing debate over alcohol-fuelled violence at the event.

    January 19, 2010, 2:47 am

  • Child rapist has 'depraved' past

    A 41-year-old man who pleaded guilty yesterday to raping and photographing a five-year-old girl in her own bed while her parents slept nearby had been released from jail just two years earlier for raping an 85-year-old woman.

    January 19, 2010, 2:45 am

  • Dredging plan a 'toxic risk'

    Toxic mercury could enter the food chain through proposed dredging to enlarge Albany's port, the Environmental Protection Authority has warned.

    January 19, 2010, 2:25 am
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