The hero cop left behind by the Cronulla riots
Rachel Olding 7:02 PM He was front and centre at the Cronulla riots, furiously swinging his police baton to stop a mob of youths from bashing a Middle Eastern couple to death on a train.
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Guards sacked as hospital crisis deepens
![Nepean Hospital security guard Barry Jennings was shot in the calf.](/web/20160117131314im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/5/7/j/g/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gm7iqe.11bc3y.png/1453021657987.jpg)
Rachel Olding 7:03 PM Two security guards who forcibly removed a drunk and violent patient from Royal Prince Alfred Hospital's emergency ward have been sacked for misconduct.
FACS no longer looking into Trinity
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Jacob Saulwick 3:25 PM A private school in Sydney's inner west says the Department of Family and Community Services is no longer looking into a case of inappropriate sexualised behaviour among Year One students.
Noah is ready for school - and other kids aren't
![SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 15: Local St Mary's mother Rebecca Armodoros reads to her 4 year old son Noah on January 15, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Munoz/Fairfax Media)](/web/20160117131314im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/7/h/g/b/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gm6vm8.11bc3y.png/1453021657987.jpg)
Tom Joyner 6:29 PM Research commissioned by the Australian government has found that one in five school kids is starting school unprepared in at least one area such as language, cognitive skills or communication.
Perish's ex-cellmate allegedly shoots at house
![Craig Alexander Strachan was charged after allegedly firing a shot at the home of convicted murderer Anthony Perish's former friend and reluctant witness.](/web/20160117131314im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/7/m/n/f/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gm7hhs.11bc3y.png/1453021657987.jpg)
Ava Benny-Morrison 7:24 PM Lithgow's maximum security prison has not been enough to limit the reach of convicted murderer and drug kingpin Anthony "Rooster" Perish.
How a 3D printer kept Mozart on the prowl
![Mozart the cat uses his 3D-printed wheelchair after breaking the bones in his back feet.](/web/20160117131314im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/5/m/a/u/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gm5h0s.11bc3y.png/1453021657987.jpg)
Kim Arlington 7:26 PM When Mozart the cat fell from a sixth-floor balcony and everything was shut for Christmas, the entrepreneur community came into its own to get him moving again.
Cycling penalties could pump fines to $1.5m
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Tim Barlass 12:15 AM A 350 per cent rise in the fine for not wearing a helmet is expected to boost the government's coffers.
'It's like cutting into our backyard'
!["It's like cutting into our backyard," says local resident Bethany Woollatt. One of the areas to be acquired is adjacent to the popular wetlands area.](/web/20160117131314im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/7/7/r/v/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gm77n5.11bc3y.png/1453021657987.jpg)
Jacob Saulwick, Michael Koziol 12:15 AM More slices of the award-winning inner-city Sydney Park will be carved off to make way for the WestConnex motorway.
Hospital shooting latest in series of incidents
![Police attended Nepean Hospital emergency department on January 13 following a near-fatal shooting the night before.](/web/20160117131314im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/4/x/c/y/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gm6ynm.11bc3y.png/1453021657987.jpg)
Rachel Olding 12:15 AM A violent hospital patient attempted to take a police officers' gun from its holster during an incident five months ago with disturbingly similarities to a shooting at Nepean Hospital last week.
Heads of department spent over $110,000
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Natalie O'Brien 12:15 AM One of the first things the new CEO bought was a cushy office chair costing more than $1400.
Uniforms from Bangladeshi factories
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Retailers Kmart and Target have come under fire for selling $2 school uniforms while workers in the factories in which they are produced are paid below the living wage.
Rookwood burial delays distress grieving relatives
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Natalie O'Brien 12:15 AM The body lay washed and ready for burial, as distressed relatives tried unsuccessfully to make speedy funeral arrangements.
Minute of silence to remember events of 2015
![French Ambassador to Australia Christophe Lecourtier at the So Frenchy so Chic in the Park.](/web/20160117131314im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/7/b/o/f/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gm7b5r.11bc3y.png/1453021657987.jpg)
Han Nguyen 12:15 AM Thousands escaped to an idyllic Provence in Camperdown to explore their inner French.
Eating potatoes linked to gestational diabetes
![Amanda Donney who is pregnant. Her family has a history of diabetes and a new study has shown a link between potato consumption and gestational diabetes in pregnant women. 15th January 2016, Photo: Wolter Peeters, The Sydney Morning Herald](/web/20160117131314im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/7/6/w/e/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gm75lg.11bc3y.png/1453021657987.jpg)
Tom Joyner 7:51 AM Women who eat more than five servings of potato a week before becoming pregnant are more likely to develop gestational diabetes while carrying the baby, new research in the British Medical Journal has found.
Clampdown on illegal use of paddling pools
![Enzo Carroll, 2, during his class at the Kids Aquatic Survival School.](/web/20160117131314im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/7/a/5/w/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gm6r3r.11bc3y.png/1453021657987.jpg)
Tim Barlass 1:06 AM Changes planned as tens of thousands of Sydney families inadvertently break the law by using inflatable temporary paddling pools.
Teaching kids survival before swimming
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Sydney Pead The philosophy that Rachelle and Richard Beesley bring to their Kids Aquatic Survival School is about adding something extra to parents' poolside vigilance and ultimately preventing deaths.
The Woodstock effect of the Sydney Festival
![Let's talk about sex: upcoming Sydney Festival show All the Sex I've Ever Had.](/web/20160117131314im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/6/h/0/0/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gm6h2l.11bc3y.png/1453021657987.jpg)
Andrew Taylor Events are of such significance that they will develop a historical meaning over time, director says.
Wedge-tailed eagle spreads his wings
![Blaze the two year old wedge tailed Eagle that has never flown.](/web/20160117131314im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/7/9/l/8/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gm77h9.11bc3y.png/1453021657987.jpg)
Sydney Pead 12:15 AM The eagle has landed ... but what happens when it won't take off again?
River reverend spreads gospel
![The Church on the Clarence River does fishing trips along with weddings and other services.](/web/20160117131314im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/l/c/3/5/d/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gl9pw6.11bc3y.png/1453021657987.jpg)
Tim Barlass 12:15 AM The church on a house boat was a miracle of an idea for the Maclean Parish minister.