Today’s highlight
May 27, 1941: The British Royal Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of some 2,000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood with the loss of more than 1,400 lives. Amid rising world tensions, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed an “unlimited national emergency” during a radio address from the White House.
On this date
1861: Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting as a federal circuit court judge in Baltimore, ruled that President Abraham Lincoln lacked the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus (Lincoln disregarded the ruling).
1896: 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis and East St. Louis, Illinois.
She also refused to provide a specimen of breath. Slack was fined $1600 (deferred to SPER) and received a six-month driving disqualification with no conviction recorded. Kim Therese Bell. After a nine-month stint in prison, Kim Therese Bell appeared in the magistrates court to finalise some drug-related matters. She pleaded guilty to a string of drug offences, including one where she licked the contents of a clip-seal bag before telling police it tasted like Panadol. Bell received fines and was convicted, but received no further punishments. Brodie James Lees. Pleading guilty to contravening police, unlawful possession of dangerous drugs and utensils or pipes which had been used, Brodie James Lees appeared in Bundaberg Magistrates Court.
Vella, Marguerite Lucille Sunday, April 11, 2021
Marguerite was born on Sept. 10, 1924, in Murfreesboro, Tn., to the late Raymond and Bessie Sanders. She was the youngest of five children and the last living survivor of her family. As a young girl, her father would take her on the horse and buggy to get ice cream. She was a member of the drama program at school and enjoyed playing basketball in high school.
While working as a waitress, Marguerite met her husband, the late Joseph Vella. They were married for 57 years, 35 of which they spent in the Philippine Islands as missionaries of the Baptist Bible Fellowship International. It was during their first term that Marguerite became very ill and the family returned home. She overcame multiple surgeries to regain her health and the family was then able to return to the Philippines several years later.
A man has been given the chance to rehabilitate himself in the community after police found meth and a taser in his shed. John Raymond Saunders, 31, pleaded guilty in the Bundaberg Supreme Court on Tuesday to possessing a dangerous drug in excess of 2g, possessing a dangerous drug and possessing a category R weapon. On March 3 last year police went to Saunders home to execute a search warrant. During the search police found 6.917g of pure methamphetamine in 9.147g of substance with a purity of just over 75 per cent. The drugs were found in various clip seal bags that were not consistent in amount.