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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Giselle Wakatama |Nakita Jager |Ben Clifford
A 185-year-old church bell has been found a week after thieves used an angle grinder to remove it from its mount. The bell was cut from its supports in a structure outside the former St Ann's Presbyterian Church at Paterson. Police said thieves took it between June 5 and 8. The church opened in 1842, and the bell rang out the day World War I ended. It was deconsecrated in 2009, and there are plans to convert the building into accommodation.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Giselle Wakatama |Nakita Jager
Supreme Court documents regarding a fatal stabbing in Newcastle allege the incident involved multiple attackers and was planned. James Callahan, 22, was stabbed in Beaumont Street, Hamilton, in the early hours of November 17 last year. The Supreme Court has released documents to the media of redacted police facts that were tendered to the court as part of a bail hearing.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Giselle Wakatama |Nakita Jager
Tyrone Thompson will spend at least 15 years in prison for stabbing Mackenzie Anderson 78 times in a brutal murder in 2022. Her mother said the sentence was outrageous, prompting a meeting with NSW Premier Chris Minns. Prosecutors have 28 days to lodge a notice of intention to appeal. The mother of a woman stabbed 78 times in a domestic violence murder has met NSW Premier Chris Minns as she calls for an appeal against the killer's jail sentence.
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Mar 15, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Nakita Jager |Emma Siossian
The Liberals are leading the Port Macquarie by-election with 52.2 per cent of the two candidate preferred vote. An election analyst says it is very rare to see a Nationals-Liberals clash in a state election. The NSW Electoral Commission says the results are expected to be released from March 31. The Liberal Party holds a tight lead against the Nationals in Port Macquarie's state by-election on the New South Wales Mid North Coast.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Emma Siossian |Nakita Jager
A man has been charged over the alleged murder and attempted robbery of four people on the New South Wales north coast early last year. The four people died after the car in which they were travelling left the road at Back Channel Road, Wardell, south of Ballina on February 24, 2024, and crashed into a tree. The male driver, 36-year-old Mark Dodds, and three passengers — 24-year-old Sophie-Lee Fullagar, 50-year-old Benjamin Watego, and 42-year-old James Doherty — died at the scene.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claire Simmonds |Nakita Jager
Pregnant nurse nurse Teagan Beeby felt "pure fear" when she was told about midwifery roster cuts at her workplace. She is 36 weeks pregnant and works at Port Macquarie Base Hospital, where she also intends to give birth to her first child. "As a nurse, knowing the impact that [nurse to patient] ratio has on the care that you can give … [and] becoming a patient myself, it's quite a scary experience," Ms Beeby said.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Nakita Jager
A man has been found guilty of murder after he punched, kicked, and stomped on a man's head in a suburban street on the NSW Mid North Coast. Justice Mark Ierace delivered his verdict against Connor Fuller, 31, in the Newcastle Supreme Court on Tuesday over the death of 61-year-old Mark Tozer at South West Rocks in 2021. Fuller had pleaded not guilty and his legal team had argued his actions were in self-defence.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Nakita Jager
Cyclist Lachlan Morton has set a new record for the fastest ride around Australia — smashing the previous record by seven days. Morton, from the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, finished the 14,201-kilometre Around Australia ride in his hometown of Port Macquarie on Saturday afternoon, where he was met with a crowd of cheering supporters. "It feels like a culmination of all the things I've done and put it into one bike ride. It feels special," he said.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Giselle Wakatama |Madeline Lewis |Nakita Jager
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has rattled New South Wales, cracking windows, causing power outages and forcing some schools to evacuate. The quake – initially identified as a magnitude 5.0 before being downgraded twice – hit just before midday near Muswellbrook in the Upper Hunter Valley, 250 kilometres north-west of Sydney. More than 2,500 people reported feeling the quake to Geoscience Australia, with reports from as far away as Coffs Harbour, Sydney and Canberra.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Nakita Jager
Regional Australian airline Rex has suspended trading on the Australian stock market pending an upcoming announcement. The ASX-listed company halted trade on Monday with the pause expected to remain in place until tomorrow or until Rex releases a statement to the market. In a statement to the ABC, a spokesperson from Rex Airlines said the company was currently in an ASX trading halt "pending making a material announcement".
