NAMBUCCA: Two elderly people - aged 75 and 84 - were in their Carbin Street home about 8.20am when they were allegedly confronted by a 14-year-old boy armed with a meat cleaver and a tyre lever, police say.
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TAREE: A new sculpture has taken up residence in Taree's Victoria Street. The shiny abacus is located outside Graham Brown's GPB Partners Accountants office. Need to see what it looks like? Click here
PORT MACQUARIE: A troupe of talented dancers has taken out the award for best group choreography at a prominent Sydney dance festival.
FORSTER: There were dragon boats galore at Forster as paddlers took to the water at Forster Keys. Check out Scott Calvin's photos here.
WINGHAM: Students at Wingham High School have elected a new student council and school leaders for the 2014/15 school year.
WAUCHOPE: The Everingham family has expressed their deep gratitude to all who have been involved in the Pedal for Pat fundraising drive that has raised well over $47,000.
LAURIETON: Two former Port Macquarie Triathlon Club members set a blistering pace in hot conditions to claim the male and female titles in the 2014 Camden Haven Triathlon at Dunbogan on Sunday.
BELLINGEN: Police want your help to find Taylor Ware, aged 28, who is wanted on warrants for numerous break and enter-related offences. Read more.
Good morning. Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered.
Communities in Newcastle, Nowra and Port Augusta are still reeling as huge budget cuts to the ABC and SBS by the federal government were revealed on Monday.
Today also is White Ribbon Day across the country. We'll keep you up-to-date with coverage from across regional Australia this morning.
► To check out the front pages of Fairfax publications for today, click here
BENDIGO: Bendigo Health has stood down one of its senior construction managers over serious allegations of corruption. The construction manager has allegedly been directing work to favoured contractors in return for lucrative kick-backs.
LAUNCESTON: A man already in prison for attempting to have his wife killed offered fellow inmates up to $25,000 and lucky Keno numbers to finish the job, a court heard yesterday.
WOLLONGONG: Thought to be a hit-and-run victim, April-lee Gillen was in fact dragged into a black SUV by two men, and managed to jump from the moving vehicle, police have revealed. Documents provided to the Mercury say police are searching for two men in relation to the discovery of 17-year-old April-lee on the roadside on April 20.
BALLARAT: A woman with a banana allergy suffered a cardiac arrest in prison after inmates bombarded her cell with the fruit, a court has heard.
DUBBO: Police have released footage showing a white ute they hope will provide a clue as they investigate an alleged hit-and-run in Dubbo last month. Click here to see it.
BURNIE: Tasmanian public schools will close their doors on Thursday because of statewide industrial action by education employees.
GOULBURN: A flawed investigation of a NSW police worker's rape accusations resulted in an innocent ACT prison guard being locked up for four months in one of Australia's most notorious prisons.
BENDIGO: A private Christian school in the Macedon Ranges may be forced to close next month as it grapples with financial troubles and declining enrolments.
FORBES: Detectives are combing through what remained of a shed of pyrotechnics that exploded on Sunday afternoon, while Rural Fire Service crews worked to contain the resulting grassfire.
NATIONAL: A Sydney woman accused of murdering her baby in a bathtub, after fearing the girl had dwarfism, told a friend "I would throw her in the bin rather than deal with all this", a court has heard.
BRISBANE: Police have shot dead a man in his 30s on the Gold Coast, the second fatal police shooting in south east Queensland in two days.
BURNIE: Chocolate supplies are dwindling around the world and Latrobe chocolatier Igor Van Gerwen believes the effects could have an irreversible effect on cocoa plant stocks.
MOREE: Claims that rife racism is blocking Aboriginal people from renting in Moree have been denounced by real estate agents, but indigenous elders suggested “elite” properties may be off limits to indigenous people.
BENDIGO: Emergency services were kept busy when a wild storm swept through Bendigo and nearby towns. The Rochester SES unit attended 14 calls for help on Monday afternoon.
WAGGA WAGGA: A man found guilty of a cowardly and premeditated attack on a taxi rank security guard has been jailed for a minimum 18 months.
REDLANDS: A man in his 30s will face court next month after blowing almost six times the legal drink driving limit in a Capalaba fast food car park.
BATEMANS BAY: Batemans Bay Community Life’s emergency accommodation facility Hope Place is in danger of closing after failing to secure NSW Government funding.
JIMBOOMBA: Detectives investigating the suspected murder of 71-year-old Logan man David Hanson have renewed their calls for help from the public to track down who killed him.
BUNBURY: South West Traffic officers are seeking information regarding a fatal crash in Dardanup on Sunday.
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► Tamir Rice, 12, was with his sister and a friend in a gazebo in a Cleveland park on Saturday when a rookie cop shot him in the chest. He was playing with a gun that fired plastic pellets, but looked dangerously real.
►If there is anyone in sport as young, as influential and, now, as rich as New Zealand golf sensation Lydia Ko, then tip your hat to them. They are doing very well for themselves.
Megan Jones is proof you can beat ice addiction but admits it is “a constant battle”. Ms Jones, a single mother of one, used ice for six months. Just before her son, now four, turned two she was ready to walk out on him and her then partner. It was then she found the Watershed Drug and Alcohol Recovery and Education Centre in Wollongong.