UPDATE NOON: A man and woman have been arrested by police after a tense stand-off involving heavily-armed officers.
FATIGUE is believed to be a major contributing factor into an horrific highway crash near Millmerran which claimed the life of a Beerwah man this week.
A TEENAGE babysitter got so frustrated with a Warwick toddler he threw his tiny body against a wall and knelt on him. He was 14. His victim was three years old.
THE liar who robbed a Gatton family of their chance to watch a young girl grow into a woman was just 18 when he took a life.
MORE education and awareness is needed around the risks of swimming and drinking as a new report finds men are more likely to drown in Queensland.
UPDATE, 4.15PM: A HEAD-ON crash between a loaded cattle truck and a four-wheel drive has left a man dead and the Gore Highway closed for a number of hours.
A COLLISION between two cars, a truck and a kangaroo on a Toowoomba Bypass on-ramp has left two people in hospital with injuries.
Tara joined the company in 2010 after graduating with a journalism and politics degree from Griffith University in Brisbane. After first working in newspapers in the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland, she joined the team at The Chronicle in 2013. In September that year she took over the reins of the Rural Weekly, and has been on the crime desk in Toowoomba since 2015.
