Police assault: News breaks about the assault of two officers by a man allegedly prowling the area around Wollongong Hospital looking to steal a car. It is the fourth alleged case of officer assault in the Wollongong district in a week.
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Assault charge: Corrimal Bowling Club president Max Hobbs is banded from the club for 15 months after he was found guilty of indecently assaulting a female staff member. The court found Hobbs slid a finger down the back of the woman’s pants and flicked her underwear.
Carer charged: Alicia Gawronski, a full-time carer of an 81-year-old woman, is charged over allegations she was heard yelling and hitting the woman. Gawronski would plead not guilty.
Where to?: The Wollongong Conservatorium of Music may be forced from its home in the botanic gardens under a 20-year plan to transform the site.
On strike: Steelworkers at Port Kembla go on strike over what they consider is a poor pay offer from BlueScope.
TV deal: WIN announces a news channel, which will largely be made up of shows from pay TV’s Sky Channel. The new channel is called Sky News on WIN.
Formal warning: Parents of students at Warilla High are unhappy with a student survey for a planned Year 10 formal “joke awards” calling for votes for the “biggest bitch” and “most likely to be gay”.
Fatal fire: Neighbours desperately tried to save 84-year-old Erwin Langthaller from his Mt Warrigal home when it catches alight. But tragically, they could not find him in time.
Thanks mum: Debbra Aldridge took blame for an alleged hit and run in Waterloo when police came knocking on her Farmborough Heights door. It was her son Scott Hoskins who was allegedly behind the wheel.
Shocking: A Wollongong mother confesses to cutting her six-year-old son’s throat with a knife. The son survives and is looked after by his father.
Murder: Rachel Impson is jailed for fatally stabbing her new boyfriend in the back on Windang’s Picnic Island.
Moneyspinners: There is now a second million-dollar speed camera in the Illawarra. The Windang Road camera joins the M1 Princes Motorway at Gwynneville as the region’s biggest moneyspinners.
House calls: Federal government cuts to Medicare rebates force the Radio Doctor Illawarra to end visits to Kiama.
Coward punch: Brian Anthony John Foot of Albion Park Rail is charged over an assault at the Fever Nightclub. CCTV footage allegedly showed Foot walking behind the victim and then punching him in the face.
Jail fail: The NSW government scraps the idea of building a jail at a Kembla Grange site after vocal opposition.
Big talk: In federal parliament Gilmore MP Ann Sudmalis accuses Kiama MP Gareth Ward of bullying and backstabbing. She would always decline to make the same allegations outside the protection of parliamentary privilege.
Priest’s problem: Father Richard Healey, an Albion Park Catholic priest, is stood down by the diocese over “professional misconduct”. While not offering any further details a diocese spokesman said it was neither “criminal in nature nor child-related”.
Cop caught: Lake Illawarra Senior Constable Paul Winston pleads guilty to high-range drink driving after returning a reading of 0.183. He will be disqualified from driving for nine months, but it would be reduced to six months on appeal.
Camera cops: Illawarra police are issued with body-worn cameras, designed to be mounted on officers’ chests.
Wrong side: Stanley Chudleigh, 84, pleads guilty to dangerous driving over an incident at Kembla Grange where he ended up on the wrong side of the side. He continued along the wrong side of the road for 100 metres before colliding with motorcyclist Michael Drury.
Road death: Blackbutt man Sasho Bulakovski dies metres from his home when he loses control of his motorbike and hits a tree.
Toy gun: Jake Lewis Andrew appears in court over an incident on a Windang bus, where he pulled out a black replica machine gun and fired several gel pellets. He did the same with a replica pistol. He pleads guilty to three charges and is placed on a community corrections order.
Break blunder: NAPLAN results for a group of Oak Flats High School students were “stuffed up" after a teacher allowed them to go for a short break during the test.
Good graduates: The latest edition of the Good Universities Guide revealed University of Wollongong engineering graduates boast the state’s best full-time employment rate while medicine graduates had a 100 per cent full-time employment rate.
Snapchat crash: A Bellambi P-plater who posted video to Snapchat of her speeding between Wollongong and Bellambi before a crash is found guilty of reckless driving. A friend who saw the video passed it onto police.
Tent city: A homeless woman has been living in a picnic shelter in Lang Park for several months, prompting concerns from residents that other homeless people could follow suit.
Duty calls: Police senior constable Paul Jones retires after four decades. He survived a horror motorcycle accident 36 years ago that put him in wheelchair, but he stayed in uniform.