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A 34-YEAR-old man has been charged over the deaths of five teenagers hit by a car while walking on a roadside in far north-western Victoria.

A TRANSVESTITE has claimed discrimination by a Melbourne hotel for a ban on using the women's toliet.

A SECOND freeway across the Yarra and a tunnel linking the Eastern Freeway with Citylink will be pledged - toll-free - in a $30 billion Liberal plan to win November's Victorian election.

CONVICTED pedophile teacher Karen Ellis has been embroiled in a fresh row amid claims bouncers were offered bribes to let her under-age lover into a city pub.

VICTORIAN Opposition Leader Robert Doyle today announced 14 female Liberal candidates to contest the November 25 state election.

THE small community of Barnawartha in Victoria's northeast is mourning the death of a volunteer firefighter who was killed in a truck accident yesterday.

ACCESS to addresses of former and current students at a top state school has been sold to advertisers in an estimated $100,000-a-year deal.

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BROWNLOW Medallist Ben Cousins could face criminal charges and be stripped of the Eagles captaincy after baulking at a booze bus.

AN eccentric millionaire left just $1 each to two ex-wives in a final insult from the grave.

A SLIP of the tongue caused chaos in the Victoria Supreme Court yesterday when a jury forewoman mistakenly convicted a man of murder.

A VENGEFUL lover who murdered a woman after she dumped him and had an abortion could walk from prison in a little over 13 years.

A VICTORIAN woman is still missing after two weeks, despite a sighting in Western Australia.

A VOLUNTEER firefighter has died after being struck by a fire truck while battling a fire today in Victoria's north.

A MELBOURNE man on trial for murder has been convicted of the manslaughter of a former business partner who was shot five times in 2003.

A 35-year-old German man accused of importing child pornography into Australia appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court today.

A MAN has been arrested after a naked romp on a bicycle through several Melbourne bayside suburbs.

ACCUSED terrorist Joseph Terrence Thomas told police he had "plenty of opportunities" to pledge allegiance to Osama bin Laden during three months at his camp in Afghanistan, a court heard today.

VICTORIA'S volunteer firefighters are threatening to protest at public events including next month's Commonwealth Games, angry that they have been ignored in an enterprise agreement between the CFA and the United Firefighters Union.