The Federal Government announced its plan to establish a temporary asylum seeker detention centre at Pontville, drawing a mixed reaction from around the state...
The government plans to spend $15 million on upgrading the facilities to house up to 400 male asylum seekers, a price Mr Bowen says is cheap compared to other options.
PORTLAND, Ore. – A woman who got pulled of an Amtrak train by police after passengers complained she was speaking too loudly on a cell phone said she felt “disrespected” by the entire incident.
Lakeysha Beard of Tigard was charged with disorderly conduct after police said she got into a “verbal altercation” with train passengers on Sunday. Passengers complained she refused to put down her cell phone and conductors had to stop the train in Salem, where police got involved...
An Amtrak official said a number of passengers complained Beard was being disrespectful during her prolonged phone conversations on the train. Salem police reported she had been on the phone non-stop since the train pulled out of Oakland, Calif. 16 hours earlier...
Amtrak does have a policy that riders can’t use cell phones in designated “quiet cars,” like the one in which Beard was riding.
... Batman tells a Hispanic male in an over-sized t-shirt to "suck my motherf**king d*ck', before allowing his black cape to billow heroically behind him.What can turn playful humour into viscous hatred in an instant?
Unsurprisingly, such words did not go down too well with Batman's unknown challenger, who after trading a couple of blows and slaps, body-slammed the Las Vegas impersonator into the cold concrete.
"Friday and Saturday nights, when people start drinking, they get dumb. They revert back to high school stuff. It's like pushing and shoving," said the Batman in question, Maxwell Allen, who admitted it wasn't the first time he had been assaulted while in costume.
