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THE ALTERCATION began when Officer Tamika Gross challenged Latifa Savage to a brawl in front of a vacant store next to Savage's Mill Creek home on Saturday, according to neighbors. " 'You got a lot of mouth 'cause you holdin' that baby,' " Gross said, according to witnesses. [snip] Still, witnesses said the tiny woman got the best of the cop in the fight. When backup officers arrived and restrained Savage, Gross kicked her, slammed her head in the sidewalk and screamed threats, forcing her colleagues to repeatedly pull her away, witnesses said.[snip]Savage was face down on the ground. As...

I thought it would be instructive to compare and contrast the suicide pacts of two different strange self-destructive cults.Pact organization #17th order of the Gender Neutral Association of Descendants of AtlantisDeity Symbol : BroomstickNumber of participants : 6Reason for suicide: Rosie O’Donnell show was not renewedDescription of Suicide: 6 members have packed themselves into a Toyota Prius and are speeding down a dirt road toward a cliff at the Royal Gorge. They are determined to get dead. Not just dead I mean really dead. They are 20 seconds from the edge. This is the git-er-done checklist1. Drink poison Kool-Aid(check)2. Put...

ISLAMABAD - Police resorted to light baton charge to disperse a rally of leaders of bar associations and civil society activists converging here from across the country to demand restoration of deposed judges including chief justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry. President of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, who led the rally outside the Parliament House, rejected government’s move to invite judges to take fresh oath after reappointment though with previous seniority. He said the government action is illegal and can be challenged by new judges who claim to be senior to the reappointed judges under the constitution. He...

On the day that fliers announced a registered sex offender had moved into a Puyallup neighborhood, a woman welcomed him with an aluminum baseball bat. Baldwin (Pierce County Sheriff's Office picture)The 7-foot-3 man was beaten so badly, medics transported him to a hospital. "I kept swingin' and swingin' and swingin," court documents say Tammy Gibson told police, who arrested her in Cottonwood Mobile Home Park. Gibson has been charged with second-degree assault and felony harassment

Five good Samaritans disrupted the alleged rape of a 22-year-old Oregon woman, chasing down and tackling the suspect until authorities arrived, police said.

It's almost that time of year again, and football is in the air.

Editor's Note: Published on Page A3 of the November 12, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer GREENPEACE, THE ENVIRONMENTAL activist group, is considering filing charges against the security guards who beat up a German volunteer during a protest against "dirty energy" in the state-run Masinloc coal-fired power plant in Zambales. The violent encounter between the National Power Corp. guards and 16 Greenpeace activists on Thursday was "the most severe attack" against its campaigners in the Philippines, said Red Constantino, Greenpeace's Southeast Asia energy campaigner. "The security personnel put the safety of the activists at extreme risk," Constantino said in...

Mom: Girls pounded on me at Chuck E.’s By Jennifer Rosinski Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - Updated: 10:22 AM EST A band of female hooligans roughed up and cursed out a Clinton mother at the Leominster Chuck E. Cheese after she asked to take one picture with her family in the photo booth they had hogged for almost an hour. ``It was like a brawl you'd see at an English soccer game the way they kept hitting her,'' said a disgusted Nelson Lee, the Leominster father of two boys who broke up the assault. ``She was down in the fetal...

Controversial N.C. sheriff under state criminal investigation TIM WHITMIRE Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Davidson County Sheriff Gerald Hege, known nationally for his pink jail cells and paramilitary stylings, is under a state criminal investigation, District Attorney Garry Frank said Wednesday. In a written statement, Frank said he asked the State Bureau of Investigation in April to look into allegations involving the activities and conduct of the controversial sheriff. The Winston-Salem Journal reported in Wednesday editions that SBI agents interviewed Hege and some of his top deputies Tuesday. Hege told the paper that agents, "talked with numerous people. ... This...

Sex assault suspect beaten in jail 07/18/2002 Associated Press Hampton Police Dept. photo Linwood Rainey was beaten by inmates in the Hampton jail, police say. (Hampton-AP) -- Six inmates at the Hampton jail are charged with maiming after an inmate charged with sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl was stomped and beaten. Police say inmates in the same cellblock attacked 42-year-old Linwood Rainey in a common area after one of them asked him if he was the man in the news for a sexual assault. Rainey was charged with forcible sodomy on Friday. Rainey was beaten on his face, head and...