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A woman in jail for murdering her mother has applied to appeal her conviction, which, if successful, could mean she would be entitled to her dead mum’s estate.

Premium Content Subscriber only A Rockhampton man's 47th birthday started with his partner admitting she had cheated on him and ended in hospital after he attempted to murder the man involved in the love triangle. For this, Daniel John Shields, 49, was sentenced on Wednesday (March 17) to 14 years prison and a serious violent offender declaration was made, meaning he has to serve at least 80 per cent of his sentence - 11.2 years. Shields was found guilty by a jury in the Supreme Court of Rockhampton on November 27, 2020, of the attempted murder of Raymond Jarvis on February 6, 2019, at a G...

Try These Houston Chinatown Restaurants ASAP Thrillist 2/10/2021 © Photo by Mai Pham A sprawling network of individual businesses and strip malls centered along Bellaire Boulevard between Ranchester and Beltway 8, Houston’s Chinatown may not bear a resemblance to its counterparts in New York City and Los Angeles, but it was affected by COVID-19 just the same. Well before the city went into lockdown in late March, Chinese restaurants were hit hard, with some businesses seeing as much as a 90% decline in sales. A year later, the restaurants that persevered are still regaining their footin...

Controversial boot camps once branded an "expensive failure" should be revisited, according to former premier Campbell Newman who says his government's program offered youth offenders a "taste of challenge and excitement". The former premier has hit out at Labor for "unravelling" measures that were introduced when he was in power, as he argued that the State needed to get young offenders into innovative programs. The boot camps were trialled by the former LNP Government, but were ultimately dumped by Labor in 2015 with then-Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath branding them an "expensive failure"...

‘Come home now or you won’t make it’: Day of flood horror Former Queensland Times reporter Melanie Maeseele reported from Grantham for several days after becoming stranded there during the 2011 floods. News Melanie Maeseele Premium Content Subscriber only IT IS hard to believe it's been a decade since the devastating 2011 floods that destroyed so many lives and livelihoods in the Lockyer Valley. Some memories from that fateful day - 10 January - will stay with me forever, others you try to forget for self-preservation. Those January f...