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A woman, 82, has been arrested after a mother pushing a pram was allegedly struck by a car in hit and run in Sydney's southwest.

Police were called to Claremont Street in Merrylands about 1.40pm yesterday after a blue Mitsubishi Lancer struck a woman as she was crossing the road.

CCTV shows the car driving away.

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The woman in her 40s was found injured on the side of the road before being taken to hospital in an ambulance with a broken leg.

The woman's two-year-old daughter in the pram was unharmed.

Today police confirmed they seized the unregistered Lancer from a home on Guildford Road at Guildford.

"Police arrested an 82-year-old woman at the scene and took her to Granville Police Station," NSW Police said in a statement.

"She has since been released without charge, pending further inquiries."

Five men have been arrested after police allege their car was travelling at 150km/h, sparking a chase through Melbourne's northern suburbs.

Police spotted a white Toyota Camry allegedly "driving at high speeds" on Paisley Street in Footscray on Friday about 11.40pm.

"With assistance from the Air Wing, the Toyota was alleged to have been observed travelling at speeds of 150km/h throughout Footscray, Derrimut, Sunshine, Moonee Ponds and Brunswick," Victoria Police said in a statement.

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Police deployed "stop sticks" on Sydney Road, stopping the car on the overpass above the Tullamarine Freeway in Parkville just after midnight.

"All five occupants inside the vehicle were swiftly arrested and are currently assisting police with their enquiries," police said.

Police do not believe the Camry was stolen.

A has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after fraudulently trying to claim his dead girlfriend's superannuation and life insurance benefits.

The AFP then charged the man in July 2020, after claims that he had accessed the super account in the hours following her death from medical complications in 2019.

The woman's relatives reported concerns about her financial affairs after the man tried to obtain a copy of the death certificate. 

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The man, 32, was sentenced in Perth District Court yesterday after being found guilty of logging into the woman's superannuation account on her phone and changing the beneficiary nomination to his own details. 

He tried to access almost $400,000 in super and life insurance benefits.

He was sentenced to three years and 10 months' imprisonment, with a non-parole period of one year and 11 months.

AFP Detective Inspector Andrea Coleman said investigators worked hard to protect the woman's savings.

"In this case, we have helped to protect this young woman's nest-egg and ensure the money is provided to the beneficiary who she chose," Coleman said.

"The work our people do is important.

"I would like to thank the dedicated men and women of the AFP who worked tirelessly, not just on this case, but every day."

William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed on Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.

His son, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Greg Anders, confirmed the death to The Associated Press.

“The family is devastated,” he said. “He was a great pilot and we will miss him terribly.”

William Anders, a retired major general, has said the photo was his most significant contribution to the space program along with making sure the Apollo 8 command module and service module worked.

The photograph, the first colour image of Earth from space, is one of the most important photos in modern history for the way it changed how humans viewed the planet. The photo is credited with sparking the global environmental movement for showing how delicate and isolated Earth appeared from space.

NASA Administrator and former Sen. Bill Nelson said Anders embodied the lessons and the purpose of exploration.

“He travelled to the threshold of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves,” Nelson wrote on the social platform X.

Anders snapped the photo during the crew’s fourth orbit of the moon, frantically switching from black-and-white to colour film.

“Oh my God, look at that picture over there!” Anders said. “There’s the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!”

The Apollo 8 mission in December 1968 was the first human spaceflight to leave low-Earth orbit and travel to the moon and back. It was NASA’s boldest and perhaps most dangerous voyage yet and one that set the stage for the Apollo moon landing seven months later.

“Bill Anders forever changed our perspective of our planet and ourselves with his famous Earthrise photo on Apollo 8," Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, who is also a retired NASA astronaut, wrote on X. "He inspired me and generations of astronauts and explorers. My thoughts are with his family and friends.”

A report came in around 11:40 a.m. that an older-model plane crashed into the water and sank near the north end of Jones Island, San Juan County Sheriff Eric Peter said. Greg Anders confirmed to KING-TV that his father’s body was recovered Friday afternoon.

Only the pilot was on board the Beech A45 airplane at the time, according to the Federal Aviation Association.

The National Transportation Safety Board and FAA are investigating the crash.

William Anders said in an 1997 NASA oral history interview that he didn’t think the Apollo 8 mission was risk-free but there were important national, patriotic and exploration reasons for going ahead. He estimated there was about a one in three chance that the crew wouldn’t make it back and the same chance the mission would be a success and the same chance that the mission wouldn’t start to begin with. He said he suspected Christopher Columbus sailed with worse odds.

He recounted how Earth looked fragile and seemingly physically insignificant, yet was home.

“We’d been going backwards and upside down, didn’t really see the Earth or the Sun, and when we rolled around and came around and saw the first Earthrise,” he said. “That certainly was, by far, the most impressive thing. To see this very delicate, colorful orb which to me looked like a Christmas tree ornament coming up over this very stark, ugly lunar landscape really contrasted.”

Anders said in retrospect he wished he had taken more photos but mission Commander Frank Borman was concerned about whether everyone was rested and forced Anders and Command Module Pilot James A. Lovell, Jr. to sleep, “which probably made sense.”

He served as backup crew for Apollo 11 and for Gemini XI in 1966, but the Apollo 8 mission was the only time he flew to space.

Anders was born on October 17, 1933, in Hong Kong. At the time, his father was a Navy lieutenant aboard the USS Panay, which was a U.S. gunboat in China's Yangtze River.

Anders and his wife, Valerie, founded the Heritage Flight Museum in Washington state in 1996. It is now based at a regional airport in Burlington, and features 15 aircrafts, several antique military vehicles, a library and many artifacts donated by veterans, according to the museum’s website. Two of his sons helped him run it.

The couple moved to Orcas Island, in the San Juan archipelago, in 1993, and kept a second home in their hometown of San Diego, according to a biography on the museum's website. They had six children and 13 grandchildren. Their current Washington home was in Anacortes.

Anders graduated from the Naval Academy in 1955 and served as a fighter pilot in the Air Force.

He later served on the Atomic Energy Commission, as the U.S. chairman of the joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. technology exchange program for nuclear fission and fusion power, and as ambassador to Norway. He later worked for General Electric and General Dynamics, according to his NASA biography.

He was convicted of killing Ben Smart and Olivia Hope on New Year’s Eve in 1997.

Those who donated to the family of Victorian woman Hannah McGuire are being refunded by GoFundMe after their money was allegedly stolen.

McGuire, 23, was allegedly murdered by her ex-partner and her body was found in April in a burnt-out car in Scarsdale, about 25 kilometres south of Ballarat.

An online fundraiser was quickly established on behalf of the Clunes Cricket Club, where McGuire's family is involved, which raised almost $65,000 following her death.

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Police confirmed 26-year-old Lachlan Morganti has been charged for allegedly stealing $60,000 of the funds raised.

GoFundMe confirmed they were proactively refunding all donors in line with their guarantee.

"We take protecting Australian generosity very seriously," GoFundMe said in a statement.

"We will always make sure that donations are used as intended.

"Our team is in contact with the McGuire family, and will continue to liaise with them, and authorities, as required."

Police alleged the Winter Valley man stole the money between April 25 and May 8. 

Morganti has been bailed to appear before the Ballarat Magistrates' Court on June 20.

Lachlan Young, 21, has been charged with murder over McGuire's death.