Girl gored by goat west of Toowoomba and other top stories.

• Girl gored by goat west of Toowoomba

  Girl gored by goat west of Toowoomba The RACQ Care Flight rescue helicopter transports a girl to Lady Cilento Children's Hospital after she was gored by a goat. Photo: Supplied A Queensland girl has been airlifted to Brisbane after being gored by a goat in the Western Downs region on Monday night.After sustaining abdominal injuries, the girl was taken to Jandowae Hospital 257 kilometres west of Brisbane.A RACQ Care Flight rescue helicopter was dispatched fr..

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• Toowoomba's worst sexual predator groomed 15 children

  

  Craig Reginald Andrews, who appeared in court on sex charges, tricked two young girls into meeting with him for sex. A TOOWOOMBA man had used Facebook to groom 15 children, two of whom he had ultimately raped, the city's District court has been told. Craig Reginald Andrews, 49, had used a number of false Facebook identities including Tanika Smart, Mark Smith, Tim Addam and Jody Green to trick children between 11 and 16 into exchanging sexual photographs with him and to ultimately tr..

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• Toowoomba reaps benefits of special salt

  

  SALT therapy seems like an unlikely tourism contender for the Garden City but many would be surprised by the popularity of Toowoomba's Salt Caves. Salt Caves at Red Edge Centre on James St is even listed as a must-do in the region on travel websites such as Tripadvisor. From the outside, it looks just like a regular health store, with windows colourfully decorated in salt lamps of all sizes. On the inside, it is so much more, with a man-made Himalayan salt cave people from all over t..

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• Deb ruled out after McVeigh makes tilt at Federal seat

  

  UPDATE: Nanango MP Deb Frecklington has ruled out running for the Federal seat of Groom. The popular Kingaroy-based politician said she wouldn't be adding her name to the nominees, after leaving her thoughts open on the matter last week, saying at the time it was not something she had considered. "I won't be running," she said.                                                            The LNP is calling for nominations from candidates in the seats of Groom and Wide Bay, with the part..

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• Allegations: Qld sex shops hid Synthetic cannabis ring

  

  FIFTEEN people have been charged in a police operation investigating an alleged multimillion dollar drug operation selling synthetic cannabis from regional Queensland sex shops. In January the owner of the Love Hearts adult store chain, David Andre Jules Piccinato, was extradited to Queensland from his Melbourne home. Police claim Mr Piccinato was running Love Heart stores in Toowoomba, Mackay, Rockhampton and Bundaberg using computers directly linked to each store. Mr Piccinato, 43,..

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• Brisbane man, 30, dies in head-on Darling Downs crash

  

  Brisbane man, 30, dies in head-on Darling Downs crash Video will begin in 5 seconds. Fatal truck accident near Warwick A sedan driver dies after colliding with a semi-trailer south of Toowoomba on Monday morning while two trucks crash on Beaudesert Road. PT0M37S 620 349 A driver who died in a head-on collision with a truck on the Darling Downs early Monday morning has been identified as a 30-year-old man from Brisbane.The man, from the south-east Brisbane suburb of Mansfield..

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