Woman dead in Gold Coast traffic light crash and other top stories.

• Woman dead in Gold Coast traffic light crash

  

  A 24-year-old woman has died after the car she was a passenger in crashed into traffic lights on the Gold Coast.The station wagon hit the lights on the Gold Coast Highway at Palm Beach on Sunday evening. Woman killed in 'horrendous' crash Speeding is believed to be a factor in a car crash on the Gold Coast in which the passenger died while members of the public saved the driver. Nine News The woman was declared dead at the scene while the 29-year-old female driver was taken to the ..

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• Coast stabbing: Man faces court

  

  Police attending a stabbing incident at The Apartments in Brighton Street, Biggera Waters. Photo: David ClarkUPDATE: A man who handed himself in to police overnight after a woman was stabbed in the chest and arm and left to bleed on a Gold Coast footpath faced court this morning.The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, did not appear in person but his lawyer Brooke Winter did not make an application for bail.Charged with five breaches of a domestic violence order, attempted murder, the ma..

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• Boot camp raises funds for dad

  

  Katie Croll spoke about her husband’s progress at Broadbeach. Photo: David Clark.ALMOST four months since Robert Croll was left paralysed from the neck down in a freak surfing accident, the Gold Coast dad is now able to hug his two young children again. The 34-year-old plumber fell from his surfboard and landed head first in the sand while on a family trip to the beach at Kirra in February.He broke his neck and was unable to move his body from the neck down, with doctors warning he was unlikely ..

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• Outsourcing a winner for Coast firm

  

  Beepo’s Aimee Engelmann. Photo: Regi VargheseWHEN Aimee Engelmann flew to Manila two years ago, her aim was to determine whether the buzz around outsourcing matched reality.What she found was a fledgling industry with enormous potential.Now the Gold Coaster and her business consultant husband, Mark, run Beepo.It employs more than 200 staff in the Philippines who provide administration services to clients in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the US and the UK.Early this month the couple delivere..

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• Camp call-up gives Titan boost

  

  Chris McQueen (right) training alongside former Titans captain Nate Myles at Queensland’s Origin camp on Sunday. Picture: Peter WallisCHRIS McQueen has received just the spur he needs ahead of the Titans’ toughest road trip of the season.While most of his Gold Coast teammates revelled in a rare four-day break over the weekend, McQueen was slogging it out on a training field at Sanctuary Cove after being called in to train with the Queensland team ahead of Wednesday night’s State of Origin opener..

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• Brabham finishes 22nd at Indy 500

  

  Motosport: Ahead of the Indianapolis 500's 100th race, the Brabham family share their inter-generational history at the track

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• Coast magician voted world's best

  

  Kristy Probst and magician Matt Hollywood. Picture: Regi Varghese.FORGET walking on water. The master illusionist dubbed “Mr Hollywood on the Gold Coast” is walking on air after he and his trusty assistant, Kristy Probst, received the magic world’s equivalent of an Oscar, the Merlin Award.“This is the pinnacle – it’s the biggest achievement we can get in our game,” Hollywood said yesterday.Hollywood, a former Australian Entertainer of the Year, joins a prestigious rollcall of Merlin Award winner..

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• Bikie arrested over cocaine, handgun

  

  Hells Angel arrested over cocaine, handgun0:40A patched member of the Hells Angels has been arrested after police found a handgun with a silencer and a bago of cocaine during the search of a vehicle. OFFICERS have charged a senior patched Hells Angels bikie after finding cocaine and a semiautomatic handgun in a car.Task Force Maxima detectives charged the 42-year-old man after intercepting a car on the Gold Coast Highway at Broadbeach on Saturday night.During a search of the car about 7.30pm in..

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• Can Qld win Origin without Cronk?

  

  Queensland State of Origin player Cooper Cronk is driven away for treatment after sustaining an ankle injury during the Maroons Origin team training session at Sanctuary Cove on the Gold Coast, Friday, May 27, 2016. AAP Image/Dave HuntWHAT I RATEIs this the year of Gold Coasters dominating the world sporting stage?With the Olympic Games just 67 days away, our city looks on target to produce Australia’s fair share of Olympians and potentially gold medals too with the likes of Cameron McEvoy, Mat ..

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• Aussie milk deliveries soar on Coast

  

  The price of milk0:51The price of milk, aussie farmers are doing it tough. GOLD Coasters are licking their lips at a chance to taste homegrown milk and support local dairy farmers, even if it comes at a cost.As the supermarket milk war hots up, with many dairy farmers on the verge of collapse after the retail giants pushed down the price they pay them, customers are biting back and providing some cream for Simon Boler.The Bonogin milkman says his small business, BE Distributors, had received ab..

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