A TAXI driver appeared in court yesterday charged with sexually assaulting a disabled passenger outside her Toowoomba home.

A MAN accused of abducting a woman from her Toowoomba home and raping her at a Caloundra motel faced Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday.

THE prospects of Umbiram farmer David Stark’s forage sorghum crop have received a timely boost from weekend rain over the Darling Downs.

STUDENTS from two Toowoomba schools were back yesterday to meet some new faces at the head of the class.

Bowan Taylor Wade has been accused of the murder of his girlfriend at Stanthorpe last year and has re-appeared in the Warwick Magistrates Court.

THE man charged with attempted murder of a policeman made his first appearance before Toowoomba Magistrates Court today.

MORE parents of children who were allegedly sexually abused by a Toowoomba Catholic primary school teacher are seeking compensation from the church.

ACCUSED serial burglar Rodney Stephen Boyle now has 85 charges against him after nine more were put before Toowoomba Magistrates Court yesterday.

ACCUSED serial burglar Rodney Stephen Boyle was yesterday remanded in custody on 72 charges arising from alleged break-ins of homes in Toowoomba and suburbs.

LEIGHTON Houkamau has pleaded guilty to committing offences while on parole and a suspended jail sentence.

TEARS welled in William Chalfe’s eyes as he surveyed the burnt-out shell of his Darling Heights family home yesterday morning.

CHARGES against an 87-year-old Toowoomba woman charged with dangerous driving causing death and grievous bodily harm were mentioned yesterday.

TEENAGE driver Dominic Anthony Joseph Hodal made his first appearance before Toowoomba Magistrates Court today on charges arising from the deaths of three of his friends at Highfields earlier this year.

TEENAGER Harley Daniel Jarvis, accused of bashing and stomping on another young man, had a charge of grievous bodily harm against him adjourned this morning.

The Queensland Resources Council says there are still big challenges ahead for the mining sector, despite forecasts of another mining boom.

POLICE have charged a 47-year-old man with murder after a child he allegedly bashed in Lowood three-and-a-half years ago died as a result of his injuries.

The weather bureau has flagged temperatures in the 30 degrees Celsius in the state this weekend, with a fire warning also issued for the state’s south-east.

A 59-year-old man from the southeast Queensland town of Kingaroy will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on Monday charged with 10 child sex offences.

TOOWOOMBA Hospital is in the legal firing line after a woman was misdiagnosed with a malignant melanoma and now has only months to live.

ALLOWING others to use drugs at her house has left Wilsonton woman Linda Fleur Jensen her own jailer for the next 12 months.