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| UpdatedThere are growing calls for the New South Wales Government to fix derelict and run-down public housing properties, as the state's waiting list passes 60,000 people.
Topics: government-and-politics, housing, welfare, community-and-society, nsw, sydney-2000, chester-hill-2162
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| UpdatedA man who punched and robbed an 86-year-old man in a Sydney car park is sentenced to seven years' jail, with a non-parole period of four-and-a-half years.
Topics: courts-and-trials, assault, crime, chester-hill-2162, sydney-2000
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Police say security camera footage shows thieves stealing $500 from Frank Carlino and running off, leaving the victim lying injured on the ground.
Topics: crime, chester-hill-2162
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Parramatta City Council vows to "parade in court" the person responsible for dumping a 50-metre trail of asbestos-laden material on a western Sydney street.
Topics: asbestos, courts-and-trials, chester-hill-2162, nsw
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| UpdatedA 50-metre trail of asbestos-laden material is dumped under the cover of darkness on a street in Sydney's west, within metres of houses.
Topics: asbestos, local-government, chester-hill-2162, parramatta-2150
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A woman involved in the robbery of a Sydney pensioner, who was also bashed, has been sentenced to at least 14 months in ail.
Topics: courts-and-trials, chester-hill-2162, sydney-2000
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A Sydney tattoo parlour has been damaged in an explosion shortly after a masked man was seen inside the building, police say.
Topics: crime, chester-hill-2162, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA man accused of punching and robbing an 86-year-old pensioner in a Sydney car park is remanded in custody.
Topics: courts-and-trials, assault, chester-hill-2162, campbelltown-2560
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| UpdatedA man is charged over the assault and robbery of an 86-year-old man in an underground car park in Sydney's west.
Topics: crime, police, courts-and-trials, chester-hill-2162
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| UpdatedPolice set up a strike force as they search for four men who threatened a pregnant bank employee during a series of armed robberies and attempted car-jackings in south-western Sydney.
Topics: sydney-2000, chester-hill-2162, auburn-2144, fairfield-2165
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| UpdatedPolice say they have disrupted a major drug ring run by members of Sydney's notorious Brothers 4 Life gang.
Nine men were arrested during an operation in the city's south-west on Tuesday morning.
Officers also seized cash, tear-gas canisters, electronic equipment and drugs including cocaine, methamphetamine, crystal meth and cannabis.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, sydney-2000, australia, nsw, yagoona-2199, villawood-2163, merrylands-2160, bankstown-2200, chester-hill-2162, georges-hall-2198
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| UpdatedA 24-year-old man wanted for allegedly abducting his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend and their eight-month-old baby in Sydney has handed himself into police.
He was arrested and subsequently charged with a number of offences.
The man allegedly forced his way into a house in Chester Hill in Sydney's west last Thursday and abducted the girl and baby at knifepoint.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, chester-hill-2162, sydney-2000, bankstown-2200, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA search for a baby kidnapped by his father in Sydney's southern outskirts is getting increasingly desperate as it enters its second night.
Officers are searching near Bargo, where 24-year-old Steven Hume dumped his car after grabbing his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend and eight-month-old son from their western Sydney home.
The girl was assaulted and left by the road, but anyone with information on the location of the boy or his father has been urged to call triple-0.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, missing-person, chester-hill-2162, nsw
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Police are searching for two men over an assault and carjacking in Sydney's south-west overnight.
Topics: crime, police, chester-hill-2162
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| UpdatedPolice say a man shot in Sydney's south-west is refusing to cooperate with investigators.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, chester-hill-2162, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA man is receiving treatment in hospital after allegedly being shot in the leg in Sydney's south-west.
Topics: assault, law-crime-and-justice, chester-hill-2162, nsw
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A car has crashed into a fence property after a police chase in Sydney's south-west last night.
Topics: traffic-offences, chester-hill-2162
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Police say a man's shooting in Sydney's south-west earlier this month has led them to seize $80,000 worth of cannabis.
Topics: drug-offences, police, chester-hill-2162, revesby-2212, nsw
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| UpdatedThree alleged clients of a child prostitution ring have been refused bail in a Sydney court.
Topics: sexual-offences, police, cabramatta-2166, warwick-farm-2170, canley-vale-2166, chester-hill-2162, northmead-2152, nsw
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| UpdatedIt is understood two people arrested in Sydney on Thursday are sisters suspected of running a child prostitution ring.
Topics: sexual-offences, police, warwick-farm-2170, northmead-2152, chester-hill-2162, canley-vale-2166, cabramatta-2166, nsw
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A man is in an induced coma after he allegedly set his own house on fire during an argument in Sydney's south-west overnight.
Topics: residential, arson, police, chester-hill-2162
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| UpdatedPolice have charged two men with murder over a fatal shooting in Sydney's south-west late last year.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, police, chester-hill-2162, bankstown-2200
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Police say a man who was seriously hurt when he fell onto train tracks in Sydney's west early this morning was drunk.
Topics: rail, police, chester-hill-2162
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| UpdatedPolice say the fatal shooting of a man in Sydney's west overnight was not a random attack.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, chester-hill-2162, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedSydney police say they have caught a man carrying a homemade bomb at a busy train station in the city's west overnight.
The man was allegedly found with a "live and unstable" pipe bomb during a random drug detection operation at Lidcombe Railway Station.
Officers say a search of the man's house also uncovered drugs and weapons.
Topics: crime, police, lidcombe-2141, chester-hill-2162