FED:HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, April 252011

AAP General News (Australia)
04-25-2011
FED:HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, April 252011

BRISBANE - The Dawson River has flooded croplands around the central Queensland town
of Theodore for the third time in 13 months. (Floods Qld)



ADELAIDE - Gaming industry claims that proposed poker machine reforms will cost billions
of dollars are ludicrous, independent Senator Nick Xenophon says. (Pokies)



SYDNEY - The death of a 31-year-old man in Western Australia's central wheatbelt region
overnight has seen the national holiday road toll rise to 16. (Toll National Update)

MELBOURNE - A man's friends looked on in horror as he was run over and killed while
attempting to run under a moving semi-trailer in Melbourne. (Toll Vic Update)

BRISBANE - A man found lying unconscious on a Brisbane road has died of his injuries. (Toll Qld)

PERTH - The death of a 31-year-old man in Western Australia's central wheatbelt region
has increased the state's long weekend holiday road toll to four. (Toll WA)



MELBOURNE - A man has been attacked with a machete during a wild brawl at a beauty
pageant after-party in Melbourne. (Brawl). Wrap to come.



SYDNEY - A 15-year-old girl has suffered serious injuries and two teenage women have
been hurt when their car left a road in northern NSW, hit a tree and slid down an embankment.

(Embankment)



SYDNEY - A woman has suffered a suspected broken nose after the bus she was travelling
in, south of Newcastle, was pelted with rocks and eggs. (Bus)



MELBOURNE - Australian blues singer and guitarist Dutch Tilders has died, aged 69. (Tilders)



BRISBANE - Two men have been charged with setting a Bundaberg building alight as investigators
look into two more fires in the southeast overnight. (Fire Qld). Wrap to come.



PERTH - Two police officers have been injured after a man wielding a shovel attacked
them in Perth's west. (Shovel)



CANBERRA - The resurrection of Christ was met with the resurrection of crime at one
Canberra church on Easter Sunday. (Augustine)



ADELAIDE - Shots have been fired at a house in Adelaide's north with one hitting the
front door, police say. (Shots)



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