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Caller could provide vital information in Modesti murder case

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Researchers warn against gluten-free diets

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Rapper Lil Wayne hospitalised suffering numerous seizures

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Royal family ‘delighted’ Kate and Will are expecting third child

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Bets are on for name of Kate and William’s third child

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North Korea preparing to launch ballistic missile

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Witness: Charles and Diana wedding restored to stunning HD glory

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‘Trump’ comes back to SNL for Phoenix rally sketch

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Speeding driver escapes after triggering chain-reaction crash

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Experts warn about predators on social media apps

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Teenage exposes what made him shoot his parents

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Bondi woman helping end ‘orphanage tourism’ in Cambodia

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Meet the man who can’t stop stealing trains and buses

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‘This is a gigantic loss for the city’: Stefanovic to ‘boycott’ Logies

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Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker dies following ‘unspecified ailment’

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Miley Cyrus in tears as she pledges $500k to Hurricane Harvey victims

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Scare sweeps beach as ‘tornado-like’ storm all of a sudden hits

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South-eastern states warned to expect spring cold snap

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Spring storms roll through Fresh South Wales

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Panthers captain Matt Moylan taking shock break from the game

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NSW rugby player charged over alleged onslaught on referee

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Switch of season puts a spring in Sydney’s property market

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Salaries of banking execs could soon be capped by regulators

As an inquiry starts into the Commonwealth Bank, Treasurer Scott Morrison is moving to give the banking watchdog the power to rein in executive pay.

Four-year-old who saved mother’s life wins bravery award

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Strangers form human chain to save elderly man trapped in floodwaters

An elderly Houston resident trapped in his SUV by floodwaters has been pulled to safety thanks to the help of at least a dozen strangers.

Texans reject to abandon pets as they flee floodwaters

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Father and 12-year-old son threatened in Queensland servo car-jacking

A man is in custody over the alleged car-jacking of a father and his youthfull son at a service station in Queensland’s Lockyer Valley.

9NEWS obtained special movie of the moment Shane Grundy and his son were approached by two armed studs at the service station on the Warrego Highway at Helidon.

The studs threatened the father with a chisel as the 12-year-old boy was sitting in the passenger seat, and then stole the vehicle and fled the scene.

“They come across at me and one had a chisel and said ‘give me your keys’ and as I went around to the other side of the car to get my son out, that’s when the other bloke pulled a gun at me,” Mr Grundy told 9NEWS.

“A car can be substituted, I can’t substitute my son.”

Police attempted to intercept the allegedly stolen car travelling west on Klinger Road in Redcliffe, but it sped off.

Tyre spokes were deployed in Scarborough and stopped the car.

A 20-year-old Caboolture man was then arrested and charged with armed robbery, attempted armed robbery, unlawful use of a motor vehicle and stealing.

He will emerge Redcliffe Magistrates’ Court today.

The other man involved in the alleged carjacking, believed to be aged in his 20s, is still on the run.

The boy and his father were not injured in the carjacking.

Investigations are continuing.

Anyone with information which could help police should call Crime Stoppers on one thousand eight hundred 333 000.