Hillsong security guard knocked out during Waterloo assault

ABC News : 29 Apr 2017

A Hillsong Church security guard is in a stable condition after being knocked out in an alleged assault in Sydney.

Hillsong said the "attack" happened near a church in the inner Sydney suburb of Waterloo on Friday night.

A group of young men leaving a church youth meeting were approached by a second group of men while walking to Redfern train station about 9:45pm.

They became involved in an argument and the 33-year-old security guard intervened after an 18-year-old churchgoer was elbowed in the face, NSW Police said.

Police said the guard was knocked unconscious from a blow to the head and a third Hillsong churchgoer, 21, was also assaulted by the group before they left the scene.

The security guard was treated by ambulance officers before being taken to St Vincent's Hospital where he remains in a stable condition.

P-plater gets six years' jail for crash that killed three friends

ABC News : 28 Apr 2017

A Sydney judge has sentenced a driver who crashed while under the influence of drugs in 2015, killing three of his friends, to a maximum six-and-a-half years in jail.

Ben Sawyer, 19 and Luke Shanahan, 21, and a third male teenager, aged 17, all died when Jordan Brown, a P-plate driver at the time, crossed onto the wrong side of the Bells Line of Road near Bilpin and crashed head-on with another car.

Barbara McLaren, the driver of that vehicle, was left with serious injuries and Daniel Richards, a fourth passenger in Brown's car, also survived.

The group were driving back to Sydney's northern beaches after they had attended the Psyfari dance festival near Lithgow, when the crash occurred.

Brown, now 21, received a non-parole period of four-and-a-half years' jail, after he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death and driving under the influence of drugs.

Scrap metal fire rages in Sydney's west, 100 firefighters on the scene

ABC News : 24 Apr 2017

Firefighters are in for a tough night as they battle a blaze at a scrap metal yard in Sydney's west.

More than 100 firefighters are at Kings Park where the local industrial area has been evacuated.

Crews are working to protect an adjoining factory and car yard.

Superintendent Ian Krimmer said it was a difficult fire to attack and there was a long fight ahead.

"There are occasional explosions occurring from within that scrap yard," he said.

"We do have a number of wrecked vehicles and this is contributing to the large amounts of black smoke that is coming from this fire."

Fire and Rescue NSW says no injuries have been reported.

Second earthquake in a week shakes NSW

ABC News : 20 Apr 2017

New South Wales has been hit by a second earthquake in a week, with a tremor rumbling the town of Forster on the mid-north coast.

Residents took to social media to describe what they felt after the magnitude 3.3 quake struck 26 kilometres under the sea just before 7:00pm last night.

Early on Good Friday, a magnitude 4.3 earthquake caused a gold mine to be evacuated near Orange in the state's central west.

Geoscience Australia seismologist Spiro Spiliopoulos said there was the possibility of more tremors in Forster.

NSW Police search for three-day-old baby taken by parents from Sydney hospital

ABC News : 13 Apr 2017

Police are looking for a teenage couple that left Nepean Hospital in western Sydney with their baby overnight, before the newborn had been discharged.

Officers said CCTV footage shows 14-year-old Jayden Lavender and 15-year-old Jenifer Morrison leaving the hospital with their three-day-old baby, and a man, just after midnight.

Jayden Lavendar, the baby's father, is described as being of Caucasian appearance with short brown hair, wearing a black and white hooded jumper.

Jenifer Morrison, the baby's mother, is also Caucasian in appearance with long brown hair, wearing a white hooded jumper, grey tracksuit pants and ugg boots.

The man who was seen on security vision leaving the hospital with the young couple and baby was wearing a black jumper with the logo 'Everlast' on it.