May 10 - By Jim Ellis, AP Writer
A 10-year-old boy was convicted Thursday in the beating of a homeless Army veteran that left the man so severely injured he required reconstructive surgery.
May 7 - By Associated Press
Thanks to new behavioral therapy at a Duke University Medical Center clinic, 9-year-old Rick Shocket is doing what seemed impossible for him a year ago: gain control over Tourette's syndrome, a brain disorder that causes repetitive movements and sounds.
May 1 - By Jim Ellis, AP Writer
A prosecutor and the attorney for a 10-year-old boy who pleaded no contest to beating a homeless veteran asked a judge Tuesday to reject requests to release a taped statement from the boy.
Apr 27 - By Don Babwin, AP Writer
An off-duty Chicago police officer who authorities say was videotaped beating a female bartender half his size faces 14 additional felony charges, prosecutors announced Friday.
Apr 22 - By Associated Press
A jury awarded $9 million to a black man who suffered permanent brain damage after being beaten and dumped in a field by four men in 2003.
Apr 21 - By Associated Press
A jury awarded $9 million to a black man who suffered permanent brain damage after being beaten and dumped in a field by four white men in 2003.
Apr 19 - By Associated Press
A 10-year-old boy charged with beating a homeless Army veteran pleaded no contest Thursday to misdemeanor battery.
Apr 13 - By Associated Press
A man accused of bludgeoning a Penn State University student with a baseball bat, a beer bottle and a rolling pin was convicted Friday of third-degree murder.
Apr 9 - By Doug Ferguson, AP Golf Writer
One was the greatest major champion of his era. The other was an unproven pro from Iowa. This wasn't Sunday at Augusta National. It was 1955 at The Olympic Club. In both cases, the feeling was it would be no contest.

Mar 30 - By Jim Ellis, AP Writer
A homeless Army veteran was recovering in a hospital Friday after two 10-year-old boys and a teenager were accused of attacking him on a street and smashing a concrete block into his face.

Mar 15 - By Geoff Mulvihill, AP Writer
A motorist beat a former Soviet political prisoner to death with a rock Thursday at a highway rest stop after the victim declined to buy his religious CDs, police said.
Jan 17 - By Samantha Gross, AP Writer
A 13-year-old whose videotaped beating was posted widely on the Internet thought she was meeting another teenager at school to resolve a love triangle but instead was attacked, police said.
Jan 16 - By Associated Press
Three teenage girls were arrested Tuesday on charges that they punched and kicked another girl and recorded the beating so they could broadcast it online.
Sep 23 - By Associated Press
Police arrested three teenagers Saturday in the beating of a homeless man in a park.
Jul 19 - By Associated Press
The executive chef at a popular grocery store was arrested after police said he beat a fellow chef because her appetizers were cold.
Jul 3 - By Associated Press
A former Ku Klux Klan leader who held a Louisville television news crew hostage in his home seven years ago was found severely beaten after apparently getting into a fight with his son.
Jun 20 - By Associated Press
Two teenage boys have been charged with assault in the school bus beating of a 10-year-old that was recorded by a surveillance camera.
Jun 19 - By Associated Press
Videotape shows a 10-year-old boy being repeatedly punched by two others on a school bus while the driver continued her route without stopping, the child's father said Monday.

Apr 14 - By Carrie Antlfinger, AP Writer
A jury cleared three white former police officers of most charges in the 2004 brutal beating of a biracial man that enflamed racial tensions, but city officials vowed to ask federal prosecutors to consider pursuing the case.

Mar 30 - By Mary Foster, AP Writer
Two former New Orleans police officers who were caught on videotape beating a retired teacher were indicted on felony charges that could send them to prison for years.
Mar 23 - By Associated Press
A 15-year-old boy died after being beaten as he waited for a bus near his school, police said. Authorities on Friday were seeking four or five males they believed were involved.
Mar 10 - By The Associated Press, AP Writer
A retired salesman alleged a stripper and her friend beat and robbed him in his home. John Skinner, 54, said he was on his way to Bible study on Jan. 23 when exotic dancer Maureen Murphy, 25, knocked on his door and offered him a free strip-o-gram.
Mar 3 - By Associated Press
It seemed like a good idea, but all robbing a beauty school got Jared Gipson was the beating of a lifetime and 25 years in prison.

Feb 16 - By Associated Press
Authorities released a video tape Friday showing guards restraining a boy at a juvenile detention boot camp just hours before he died.
Jan 30 - By Jim Salter, AP Writer
Black activists on Tuesday called for the firing of police officers who were shown on live television swinging night sticks and punching and kicking a suspect after a car chase.