Prosecutors have dropped a misdemeanor assault charge against Carolina Panthers linebacker Jon Beason because of a lack of evidence.
A federal judge has set a 2011 trial date in a Texas woman's lawsuit alleging she was raped by military contractor co-workers in Iraq.
An attorney says a former Missouri House speaker plans to withdraw from politics altogether after he was accused of assaulting a woman during a sexual encounter.
A state senator was sentenced Friday to probation and domestic abuse counseling, the resolution of a yearlong legal drama that began when he took his girlfriend to a hospital with a gaping, bleeding wound under her eye and ended with her begging a judge to let them be together.
Massachusetts prosecutors say a J.C. Penney children's department salesman sexually assaulted a boy in a dressing room when the boy's mother stepped away to make a phone call.
A metro Atlanta nurse anesthetist has been charged with molesting and sodomizing anesthetized patients in dental and medical offices, and police say the videotaped abuses could involve 100 or more victims.
Authorities say a 12-year-old boy assaulted by a group of middle school classmates in Southern California may have been targeted after an Internet posting urged students to beat up redheads.
The parents of an 8-year-old Liberian girl who was allegedly raped by four boys have been arrested on felony child abuse charges.
A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been awarded nearly $3 million by an arbitrator to settle her case.
Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife.
Pretrial hearings in the case of a Serb accused of beating a fellow student into a coma in the United States will begin in December, a Serbian court said Thursday.
Delta Air Lines has suspended a pilot who was charged with trying to strike officers with his plane at a Georgia airport.
Prosecutors charged the co-owner of a Hermantown construction company with allegedly assaulting a construction worker with a backhoe. The criminal complaint said a 48-year-old man told investigators he wanted to "nudge" the victim, but didn't want to hurt him. He also said it was a stupid thing to do.
Rihanna has sold more than 12 million albums, and has had four No. 1 songs, but now her fame revolves mostly around one fight.
An emergency room doctor has been convicted of assault with a deadly weapon for swerving his car in front of two cyclists on a Brentwood road, causing them to crash into the back of the sedan.
A young Iraqi woman whose father allegedly hit her with his car because she had become too Westernized died from her injuries Monday after laying in a coma for nearly two weeks.
Prosecutors say five people have been charged in Los Angeles with torturing and robbing two men they thought falsely promised to save their home from foreclosure.
Iowa City police are investigating an early morning assault in which a man accused another of being a zombie, then punched him twice. Police said the assault occurred at 1:17 a.m. Sunday at an Iowa City restaurant south of the University of Iowa campus.
A former civilian defense contractor accused of sexually assaulting a female co-worker at an air base in Iraq has pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact.
The former fiancee of celebrity chef Todd English has been charged with assault for allegedly hitting him with a metal wrist watch.
A freshman state senator was acquitted Thursday of smashing a glass into his girlfriend's face, but was convicted of a lesser charge for dragging her bleeding from his apartment in a violent scene caught on videotape.
A freshman state senator accused of slashing his girlfriend's face in a jealous rage was acquitted Thursday of a felony charge, but was convicted of a lesser charge of grabbing her by the arm in a scene caught on videotape.
State Sen. Hiram Monserrate (mahn-suh-RAHT') has been acquitted of a felony charge of second-degree assault for slashing his girlfriend's face in a jealous rage.
Authorities say a couple, upset over the slowness of their Kentucky Fried Chicken order, assaulted a man who asked them to stop yelling profanities for the sake of children in line. The couple was arrested Thursday after witnesses told police the couple beat the man as he was leaving the restaurant.
A northeast Oklahoma man faces assault charges after allegedly trying to run over a police officer with a horse. Ottawa County prosecutors are charging a 39-year-old man with assaulting a police officer and with domestic abuse and assault and battery. He's currently free on $6,300 bond.
A baby who died following an assault in Enniskillen on Thursday was 15-month-old Millie Martin. A court has given police a further 36 hours to question a 30-year-old man about the death.
Pack 'em up and send them home. In the largest such operation ever, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 286 foreign nationals in California with criminal records in a three-day enforcement surge that ended Thursday night.
The man told sheriff's deputies that he came home from work on Nov. 7, got into an argument with Brown, told her that he was breaking up with her, then went to bed.
Schoolchildren are being forced to take part in street fights by at least one adult who records them and posts videos on the internet, it has been claimed.
Veronica Deramous wanted a baby. She just didn't want to have one the natural way. So police say she approached a 29-year-old woman at a Washington, D.C. pregnancy shelter, saying she wanted to adopt her baby.
BOSTON -- A veteran Boston firefighter filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the City of Boston and two of its officers.
PLAISTOW, N.H. -- A grand jury has indicted a Plaistow father accused of assaulting his triplets born earlier this year.
PALM BAY -- Police said they are searching for suspects after a violent home invasion in which children were tortured and a mother and daughter were burned with hot oil.
DENVER - Newly-released reports from the Denver Police Department suggest a series of assaults in Downtown Denver were driven by racial hatred. Advertisement
An arrest warrant has been issued for a 15-year-old boy suspected of assaulting River City High School Principal Stuart MacKay on Oct. 28.
LONDON (Reuters) - Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was arrested by British police late on Wednesday on suspicion of assault and released on bail after questioning on Thursday.
A married businessman accused of groping a friend as she slept in bed has been cleared of sexual assault after claiming he was sleepwalking.
An elderly Walmart greeter was punched in the face and seriously hurt outside of the store in North Versailles. Channel 11 got surveillance video of the incident Tuesday. The video shows a man walked up to Thomas Jenkins, 72, of McKeesport, and knocked him to ground.
In a bizarre development, residents of a village near Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, have filed a case against a male monkey for attempting to attack and kill a female monkey and its newborn. The case was filed at a police station near the village.
SANFORD — Sanford police are hunting for a gang of girls who brutally beat a teenager in a laundromat. Surveillance video, obtained only by Eyewitness News, shows at least four girls punching and slapping the victim Sunday night.
Elizabeth Smith says she cooked the ham the night before and asked her father-in-law to wake her up on Thanksgiving morning so she could cook the rest. But when she woke up at 7 a.m., she said, Donald "Junior" Smith was already stuffing the turkey.
CINCINNATI -- Police arrested a man accused of causing a woman to lose her eye during a fight early Thursday at a downtown restaurant.
The gang members crave the notoriety of having their one-punch knockouts recorded on tape and sold on the black market. They'll rewind the tapes and watch them over and over, he said.
Six people arrested in August outside a raucous town hall meeting in south St. Louis County have been charged with misdemeanor ordinance violations. The six, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, had attended a demonstration outside an Aug. 6 forum called by U.S. Rep.
For tickling a woman against her consent, Teddy Seezi Tayebwa, a resident of Bugangari Sub-county in Rukungiri District, will spend the next five years in jail.
Recently there was a story about a Walmart shopper who line jumped in front of another customer, moved the other customers items so that she could be next.
Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives are investigating an assault on a 12-year-old middle school boy in Calabasas who may have been targeted after a Facebook group urged students to beat up redheads, a sheriff's official said today.
MILFORD — A Milford woman assaulted her fiance, threw a wooden bench onto his truck, damaging it, and then fought with an officer as she tried to avoid arrest, police said.
A Mexican teenager pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a U.S. Border Patrol agent last summer while attempting to rob him of government property in a remote area east of San Diego, according to a plea agreement announced today.
Reports have surfaced that teacher Randolph Forde, who works at Mundy Mill's High School, Clayton County, Georgia, took a 16-year-old teenager out of class to ask the youngster if he was gay.