On the eve of the Great NZ Road Trip, we reprise memories from a different era.

Brock Gilchrist has enjoyed a successful year and is now set to race a $375k sportscar.

“We’re always happy with the support that we get.”

Police are seeking CCTV footage from residents or business owners in the area.

The US Army reservist accused of killing 18 people and injuring 13 more in a shooting rampage across a small Maine city this week is dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, multiple sources tell CNN.

Robert Card, 40, was found dead in the woods near Lisbon, some 8 miles from Lewiston, where Wednesday's shooting happened, the same sources said.

This follows a two-day manhunt that prompted shelter-in-place-orders and the shutdown of schools and businesses as law enforcement furiously pursued him after Wednesday's attack at a bowling alley and a restaurant in Lewiston.

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The attack was the deadliest US mass shooting since last year's massacre at a school in Uvalde, Texas.

Maine State Police plan to hold a news conference soon.

The gun investigators believe Card used to carry out the massacre was purchased legally just days before he was hospitalised and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, according to multiple law enforcement sources.

In mid-July, New York State Police were called to Camp Smith in Cortlandt, New York, the military base where Card served, because he was acting "belligerently and possibly intoxicated," according to a source briefed on the matter.

Three law enforcement sources confirm State Police brought Card to a nearby hospital, where he was treated for suspected intoxication and released the next day.

When asked for information about the encounter, a New York State Police spokesperson told CNN: "This is an active investigation, and the New York State Police does not comment on active investigations."

A federal law enforcement source told CNN the army gave Card a "Command Referral" to seek treatment after he told army personnel at Camp Smith Card had been "hearing voices" and had thoughts about "hurting other soldiers."

A National Guard spokesperson confirmed to CNN Card was transported to the nearby Keller Army Community Hospital at the United States Military Academy for "medical evaluation," after Army Reserve officials reported Card for "behaving erratically."

Card's encounters with New York State Police and his National Guard superiors occurred just 10 days after Card had purchased the high-powered rifle at a Maine gun store, according to law enforcement sources.

The rifle was a Ruger SFAR chambered for high-powered .308 ammunition, the sources added. The .308 round is favoured by military snipers firing at long distances and big game hunters.

It is larger and more powerful than the regular ammunition carried in the rifles of soldiers and SWAT teams.

Sources say the weapon found inside Card's 2013 white Subaru Outback appears to be the same one fired by the gunman at the bowling alley and a local bar, though a ballistics match has not been confirmed.

The weapon will be processed by the FBI and ATF for fingerprints and DNA and then run through laboratory testing to determine if the bullets and shell casings found at the scene match.

In the same July purchase, along with the rifle, sources say Card also bought a Beretta 92-F 9mm semi-automatic pistol. It is the standard pistol of the US military.

Three police officers have been awarded for their courage after rescuing a man who became trapped under a sea of grain in a Queensland silo.

Heartstopping video footage has emerged of the police officers hand-digging a man named John from Baralaba out of a grain silo after he became trapped on February 23.

As the man's head is submerged by the grain, the officers desperately try and clear a space so he can breathe.

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After getting the man's top half free they can be seen attaching a rope around his body and begin trying to pull him out with the help of others standing outside the silo.

John is eventually freed after a hole is cut into the side of the container releasing enough grain to free him.

Sergeant Wylie Steel and Senior Constable Callam Moriarty can be heard speaking John and coaching him through the incident in the footage.

"You're doing really well mate, you're doing well brother," they can be heard saying. 

Yesterday, they received the Working Together Award for the Queensland Police Everyday Hero awards in Brisbane. 

Moriarty said the award was "incredibly humbling" and "unexpected." 

"I am very grateful for what we are able to do in a small town, especially being able to spend time making connections with the community," he said.

"The local mine shut down, people came down the road in tractors and others shut their businesses that day to come and help us."

"Just to able to walk down the street and still talk to John and see how he's doing, that's what it's all about."

Twenty-two volunteers and career police officers were nominated across different categories for making an outstanding contribution to the community. 

A mother's love does have limits, it seems.

At least for a 75-year-old woman in the northern Italian city of Pavia who won a court order after suing to have her sons, aged 40 and 42, removed from her house, a court clerk in Pavia told CNN Friday.

The two sons, described in court papers by their mother as "parasites," had been living in the family apartment without contributing financially or helping around the house, according to the complaint filed by the woman, who has not been named, in a the Tribunal of Pavia district court. 

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Both men are employed, the court documents state.

Judge Simona Caterbi sided with the retired mother, who is separated from the men's father and whose pension went entirely on food and maintenance of the home, ruling that the two "bamboccioni," or big babies, have until December 18 to vacate the premises, according to Tuesday's court ruling, seen by CNN.

Caterbi wrote: "There is no provision in the legislation which attributes to the adult child the unconditional right to remain in the home exclusively owned by the parents, against their will and by virtue of the family bond alone."

The men, who hired lawyers to fight the maternal eviction, according to the local newspaper La Provincia Pavese, argued that Italian parents are required by law to take care of their children as long as necessary.

Caterbi cited the existing law in her ruling and agreed that "the stay in the property could initially be considered well-founded because the law is based on the maintenance obligation incumbent on the parent."

She then ruled that "it no longer appears justifiable considering the two defendants are subjects over 40 and once a certain age has been exceeded, the child can no longer expect the parents to continue the maintenance obligation beyond limits that are no longer reasonable."

A lawyer for the men told local media that the men had not decided if they would appeal the court decision.

This is not the first time "mammoni," an Italian term used to describe adult men who are too dependent on their mothers, has cropped up in the legal system.

In 2020, Italy's Supreme Court ruled against a 35-year-old man who worked as a part-time music teacher who still expected financial support from his parents after he argued that he could not support himself on an annual salary of 20,000 euros ($33,000).

On average, Italians leave their parental home at the average age of 30, according to Eurostat 2022 data.

Croatia is the highest in the European Union, with an average age of 33.4 years. By contrast, offspring in Finland, Sweden and Denmark start life on their own at the average age of 21, according to the same data.

More than 117 kilograms of drugs have been seized from a Sydney home.

The search of a "safe house" in Pyrmont uncovered 61kg of cocaine blocks, 29kg of ketamine and 27kg of MDMA pills stored in seven suitcases at 10.10am on Friday.

Police have referred to the property as a drug "safe house".

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The total haul is estimated to be worth $42 million in street value.

Two men aged 24 and 31 have been charged with three counts of supplying a prohibited drug of a large commercial quantity.

All the items seized will go through forensic testing.

Detective Superintendent Peter Faux said police will continue to target illegal drug suppliers.

"Our capabilities working with agencies like the NSW Crime Commission mean we can relentlessly pursue anyone involved in putting drugs on our streets," he said.

Both men were refused bail and will appear in Parramatta local Court today.

A new report from literary organisation PEN America has revealed an eyebrow-raising list of books banned in US prisons, including Spanish language guides and celebrity memoirs.

"The common concept underpinning the censorship we're seeing is that certain ideas and information are a threat," says the report's lead author, Moira Marquis, senior manager in the prison and justice writing department at PEN.

Some states have banned instruction books for non-English languages, worried inmates will be able to then speak in front of guards who won't understand them.

Amy Schumer's memoir The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo also made banned lists due to "sexual content".

PEN said that many of the categories used to justify bans were vague and broad-reaching.

Its report quoted one inmate who said his New Yorker magazines had been withheld due to occasional nudity in the "absurdly innocuous" cartoons.

Another inmate, incarcerated in Virginia, noted that in Virginia prisons, the Game of Thrones TV series is aired unedited on facility TVs – but the book series they are based on, A Song Of Ice And Fire by George RR Martin, are banned.

PEN said whether intentional or not, many books banned for "sexual content" were aimed at queer and transgender audiences. 

Security concerns are behind other bans, including a rape prevention guide in Connecticut and an anti-sexual harassment book in Louisiana.

Even a guide to drawing fantasy creatures, Fantasy Artist's Pocket Reference: Incredible Characters, was deemed a threat to security and banned.

PEN said this was part of trend, with similar books on "mind control, shape shifting, and Dungeons And Dragons role-playing" also widely refused entry to prisons.

The apparently worthy practice of keeping racially inflammatory materials out of prison has also led to some questionable decisions, such as the banning of literary giant James Baldwin's book I Am Not Your Negro in Kansas.

Other books to appear on banned lists: Sun Tzu's The Art of War, the compilation Prison Ramen: Recipes and Stories from Behind Bars, Barrington Barber's Anyone Can Draw: Create Sensational Artwork in Easy Steps and Robert Greene's self-help best-seller 48 Laws of Power.

The Prison Ramen compilation was the most banned book around the country, PEN found, with recipes and stories provided by former inmates, including celebrities such as Danny Trejo.

PEN places bans into two categories: content-specific, in which books are banned because of what they say or allegedly say, and content-neutral, in which books are restricted because they are not sent through accepted channels.

In Maine, Michigan and other states, prisoners may only receive books through a select number of vendors, whether Amazon, a local bookstore or an approved publisher.

Content-neutral restrictions may also apply to the packaging (some federal facilities only permit white wrapping), and against free or used literature, Marquis said.

A spokesman for the Idaho Department of Correction told Associated Press in an email that restrictions on packaging had become necessary because of "an increase in the amount of drug-soaked mail being sent to our residents."

He added that inmates can receive books and periodicals free of charge from authorised vendors and publishers.

"We believe our guidelines area a reasonable response to a growing problem that puts the health and safety of the people who live and work in Idaho's correctional facilities at risk," he said.

The states with the most banned titles, per their responses, are Florida (22,825 titles up to September 2023), Texas (10,265 titles up to February 2023), Kansas (7699 titles up to 2021), Virginia (7204 titles up to 2022), and New York (5356 titles as of 2019).

The heartbroken parents of Milla Foster, who died from what seemed like a common illness, have issued a plea to the public.

They are urging others not to ignore their instincts following the 12-year-old's death, just days after being diagnosed with gastroenteritis.

The young girl from Kapunda in South Australia's Barossa Valley loved Taylor Swift, had a laugh that would brighten any room and had everything to live for her parents say.

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"She was a really good girl," her dad Shannon Foster told 9News.

"I'm waiting to wake up and just see her."

The tragic events unfolded when Milla had an upset stomach and other relatively mild symptoms.

Shannon took Milla to the Kapunda Hospital last Tuesday with her step-mum Phoebe, where doctors gave her medication to treat gastroenteritis.

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"They kept us there for an hour, an-hour-and-a-half, and they sent us home," he said.

Milla's parents say they'd thought her condition was improving but two days later, on October 19, Milla died.

"You don't think that gastro can potentially kill – especially someone so young and so healthy," step-mum Phoebe Kelly said.

The communities of Kapunda and Freeling – both about an hour north of Adelaide – have wrapped their arms around the family, with more than $20,000 raised to help the family plan a celebration of Milla's life.

Meanwhile, Milla's parents are now urging others not to ignore their instincts.

"Even if the doctors say you might be paranoid or if you're just over-cautious – just listen to it, because it's there for a reason," Phoebe said.

SA Health Minister, Chris Picton, has voiced his heartfelt sympathies to the family and is promising Kapunda Hospital and SA Health will fully co-operate with a coronial investigation.