Closing up: Myer closes the doors of its Wollongong Central store for the last time. David Jones will move into the Myer site.
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Paedophile teacher: Former Edmund Rice College teacher Brother John Roberts is jailed for 10 years for abusing a 13-year-old student weekly for almost a year.
Expensive habit: Jerome Lawrence is sentenced to three and a half years for two home invasions. Lawrence says he turned to crime to support a $1500 a day ice habit but has since stopped using the drug.
Big bust: Police seize around $2.4 million worth of cannabis in a pair of raids on premises in Port Kembla and Unanderra. In court the prosecutor says it was a “highly sophisticated” set-up and was believed to have the backing of organised crime.
Too much money: St Mary Star of the Sea College has been named as one of 150 private schools being overfunded by the taxpayer. In 2014 the college received $12.3 million in government funding - $1.5 million more than its entitlement.
Lucky break: St George Illawarra Dragons coach Paul McGregor is handed a 12-month good behaviour bond after being caught driving over the limit on the way to a training session in April.
Wild weather: Strong winds reaching 107km/h leave thousands of homes without power as toppled trees sever power lines.
Pass problems: At the start of the month Bulli Pass is closed for two months to install a rock fall fence. Just four days later it would be temporarily reopened after a truck crash on the Princes Motorway created a monster traffic jam. It would also be reopened twice in November after truck crashes on Mt Ousley in consecutive days.
Costly case: Shellharbour City Council’s legal fight against the government’s merger plans has so far cost $216,449.86, a figure which is released after deputy mayor John Murray calls for the public to be made aware of the costs.
To the top: Parliamentary Secretary for the Illawarra Gareth Ward says he’ll go over the head of federal South Coast Liberal MP Ann Sudmalis and take his quest for Princes Highway funding direct to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Big drop: New data reveals that student numbers at TAFE Illawarra campuses have plummeted by almost 30 per cent between 2013 and 2015.
Mystery creature: Alex Vourliotis and Tanaya Webb are the latest people to claim to have seen the Illawarra “panther” on a slope overlooking the Sea Cliff Bridge. “I’d say it was the size of a full-grown dog, maybe like a German shepherd,” he said.
Attack: A man bashed a taxi driver over a disagreement as to whether he owed $13 or $14 for the fare.
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