By Jarrod Potter MELBOURNE Boomers unveiled its Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL) centre-piece on Thursday after bringing Liz Cambage home. Cambage, 25, originally from Mt Eliza, will lace up for her first home season in five years in the upcoming 2017/18 WNBL season. The 25-year-old centre won a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics with the Australian Opals, has played in the Women’s National Basketball Association for the Tulsa Shock and has also had several other professional achievements throughout China. After a year of soul-searching and contemplation spent away from the court, Cambage returns refreshed and ready to take…
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After a 13 year hiatus ARIA nominated, Australian metal outfit SUPERHEIST are back and one thing is for sure, they are here to RAISE HELL. The band who have achieved gold record status and previously toured with rap god EMINEM are coming in hot. Superheist have delivered a heavy hitting and uncompromising AAA Side in a brazen display of what is arguably the band’s best work to date. Kicking off with ‘Raise Hell’ a hectic four minutes of in your face, thought provoking nu metal. Followed by ‘Got The Bounce’ an explosive mix of Wu Tang meets Messhuga perfectly walking…
POLICE set up an information caravan at Seaford train station, Friday, in an attempt to glean information about a man who attacked and sexually assaulted a woman in Seaford earlier this month. Sexual Crimes Squad detectives say a 19-year-old woman was walking home from the station along Railway Parade, near Seaford North Reserve, 3.10am, Saturday 1 April. They said she stopped briefly near bushes at a church car park where she was attacked from behind by an unknown man and sexually assaulted. The man ran off in an unknown direction and the woman walked home and raised the alarm. Acting…
A MAN has been arrested after allegedly trying to evade police in Frankston last week. Detectives said they intercepted the man’s white 1989 Mitsubishi light truck, allegedly bearing false plates, in Havana Crescent, 2pm, Tuesday (25 April). They said the man initially pulled the vehicle over but sped off as detectives approached on foot. The detectives saw the car soon afterwards and again pulled it over. Senior Constable Alistair Parsons, of police media, said the 26-year-old driver then “made a triple zero call and reported an incident in a nearby street in an attempt to have the detectives redirected”. Police…
SOMERVILLE Highway Patrol officers chased two cars playing “cat and mouse” at Langwarrin, Thursday night (27 April), after they travelled side by side at speeds of 136kph in an 80kph zone. Leading Senior Constable Paul Turner, of police media, said police were driving behind the Suzuki Swift and a Nissan X-Trail as they drove east along Cranbourne Rd about 11.30pm. He said the cars accelerated away from a set of traffic lights and began speeding. When they were intercepted police were surprised to find one of the drivers – a 23-year-old Cranbourne woman – had only had her licence for…