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Subscriber only A Coast woman lashed out at nurses and threatened to follow them home after they didn t give her a taxi voucher. Melanie Gay Adams became increasing uncooperative, belligerent and rude towards Nambour Hospital nursing staff as they prepared to discharge her from the short stay unit in the emergency department on November 28 last year. Police prosecutor Alison Johnstone said Adams used obscene and bad language and demanded a taxi voucher to get home to Sunrise Beach while waiting for her discharge medication. Nursing staff and the pharmacist approached … (Adams) to supply medication and advise her that she didn t qualify for a taxi voucher and upon hearing this the defendant started to scream at the nursing staff, she said.
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Subscriber only MANY murders are solved, but there are some that remain as cold cases. These are the Queensland cases police need the public s help with. Do you have information on any of the following cases? Call: The Homicide Investigation Group, Brisbane, (07) 3364 6122 Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000. In all of these cases, rewards are offered. A $250,000 reward for information which leads to the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons responsible for each crime is being offered in many cases, in some, the reward is less or more. In addition, an appropriate indemnity from prosecution will be recommended for any accomplice, not being the person who actually committed the crime, who first gives such information.
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A woman has been taken to hospital after she was bitten by a snake.
A Queensland Ambulance spokeswoman said paramedics were called to a private residence in Kiel’s Mountain after the woman was bitten.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said emergency services were called to Sunbird Chase about 1pm. She said paramedics took the woman, believed to be aged in her 30s, to Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition. She was walking around when they arrived and there were no injuries confirmed, she said. In a separate incident on Saturday night, a man was taken to Nambour Hospital after a single vehicle crash at Noosa.
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Subscriber only A young woman was pulled from treacherous waters at a popular Sunshine Coast beach after she nearly drowned. A Queensland Ambulance Services spokeswoman said the woman had become stuck in a rip in waters off Merrima Ave at Kings Beach about 12.28pm on Saturday. The spokeswoman said the woman was believed to be in her 20s and was taken to Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition as a precaution.