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A woman suffered chemical burns after a Florida man dunked her head in a vat of tar-like substance and choked her at gunpoint. Marshall Dimick, 55, of Rosewood, was arrested this week after an unidentified woman told police she was tortured after she had an “argument” with the felon on Thursday. Dimick claimed the man “dunked her head into a vat of tar-like substance that is used to treat clam and oyster bags.” He also “pointed a shotgun at her and choked her to near unconsciousness,” the Levy County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release. The victim was hospitalized...

MIAMI - A Cutler Bay man is accused of biting the head off of a woman's pet snake during a domestic dispute. According to Miami-Dade police, officers were sent to the Saga Bay apartment complex on SW 210th Street on Monday to check out reports of a couple arguing. When they arrived they could hear the fight between a man and woman going on inside #108. They knocked on the door several times and made loud verbal commands to open the door. The fight continued as the door remained closed and at one point the officers heard the woman scream...

Let me put this as William F. Buckley might have said it – as a patriotic conservative, it is your duty to call upon that booty. Last week the census report came out and it is a lights n’ sirens red alert emergency –America’s population grew at the smallest rate since the Great Depression. Down this road to extinction just a few years ahead of us are the morally and culturally exhausted nations of Europe which have not seen their people hitting replacement rate in a generation. The problem is that Americans are not making babies, and we need to...

NASHUA — A city woman is facing 17 charges in connection with an alleged assault against her girlfriend, including claims that she repeatedly bit her partner, rubbed her face in old food and choked her until she nearly blacked out. Nahiomy Velazquez, 23, of 75 Pine St., apt. 55, is accused of assaulting the girlfriend during an altercation on Dec. 21.

A Missouri man was charged Sunday with murdering his 74-year-old father by lying on his head until the man lost consciousness, to prove "how big and bad" he was, authorities said. Kyle Webb, 44, of Grandview, Missouri, is charged with killing Franklin Webb late Saturday night at a home they shared after the father complained about the way his son was cleaning up around a leaky pipe, according to a police report.

The late Casey Kasem's body is missing, more than a month after the radio icon's death, according to his daughter. A spokesperson for Kerri Kasem confirmed to ABC News that the legend's adult children have yet to see his body. Kasem died on June 15 at 82 years old after suffering from a form of dementia. An autopsy has also not been performed yet, the family said. Jean Kasem denied to ABC News that his body is missing. Jean Kasem, the radio personality's second wife, had been embroiled in a conflict with his children from a previous marriage over her...

A Coral Springs woman was arrested Tuesday after allegedly attacking her boyfriend when he refused to have sex with her. Inez Nunez, 18, was arrested on a domestic battery charge around 2:30 p.m. at their home in the 5700 block of West 47th Court, police said.

FORT LAUDERDALE— A marital spat that began when a Plantation man didn't wish his wife a happy birthday and then escalated into a domestic violence charge resulted in an usual bond court ruling by a perceptive judge. Instead of setting bond or keeping Joseph Bray locked up, he ordered him to treat his spouse to dinner, a bowling date and then to undergo marriage counseling. "He's going to stop by somewhere and he's going to get some flowers," Judge John "Jay" Hurley said during the first appearance hearing. "And then he's going to go home, pick up his wife, get...

A grieving Oneida County Sheriff Robert Maciol approached a podium outside his department's office in Oriskany Tuesday morning, flanked by fellow law enforcement and county officials, delivering the grim news that one of his deputies had been shot and killed while responding to a domestic dispute Monday night.

SOMERVILLE -- A woman who was taken for a psychiatric evaluation this morning is dead and three Somerville police officers were stabbed after responding to a domestic incident today, police and neighbors said. Police said in a statement that officers arrived on Sycamore Terrace around 6:30 a.m. "As a result of this response three officers were stabbed by suspect and sustained non-life threatening wounds,'' police said. "The suspect is deceased...There are no additional suspects being sought at this point in the investigation.'' Neighbors said the woman was in her mid 30s and that she was involved in a turbulent relationship...

Domestic dispute ends in a deadly shooting Conroe police say altercation arose when father tried to take children Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Dec. 20, 2008, 9:26PM Share Print Email Del.icio.usDiggTechnoratiYahoo! BuzzA woman's 80-year-old grandfather fatally shot her estranged husband after he tried to take their two children from the grandparents' house, Conroe police said Saturday. Brice Wade Boudreaux, 32, died Friday evening at the home on Silver Creek Drive in Conroe, police said in a statement. The investigation was ongoing Saturday, and it was not immediately clear whether the grandfather would face charges. He was questioned by police and released....

German puts out cigarette with fire extinguisher Tue Feb 19, 12:38 PM ET A virulent anti-smoker in Germany was so angry when his girlfriend lit up he emptied a fire extinguisher to put out the cigarette, caking her and their apartment in powder. "My colleagues said it looked like a bomb had gone off in there," said a spokesman for police in the western city of Bielefeld. "He managed to put the cigarette out though." After the woman ignored his request not to smoke, the 42-year-old sprayed the contents of the extinguisher all around the flat shouting abuse, police said....

Mother Says Stepfather Is Responsible; Child Remains In Critical Condition (CBS4) PLANTATION -- A 13-year-old boy is in critical condition after he is beaten with a tire iron and left for dead while sleeping in his bed. Sunrise Police were called to a house on the 2100 block of NW 107th avenue after the mother of the child alerted them and said he was beaten by his step-father. “I’m scared,” said Lucy Housman. “ I'm very depressed. There's no words to express how I feel.” Housman told police her son, 13-year old Orlando Lopez, was beaten with a tire iron...

A man opended fired today at a church..still at large, very few details

WELLSVILLE -- Despite having three places he was involved in searched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday, Dr. Kenneth M. Berry, 46, of Wellsville, was arrested, but on a domestic violence charge in New Jersey. Point Pleasant Beach (N.J.) Police charged Dr. Berry with four counts of assault and a temporary restraining order was issued by Judge James A. Ligouri. Agents from the FBI executed a search warrant at two homes in Wellsville Thursday as part of an investigation into "the origin of the anthrax-laced letters mailed in September and October of 2001 which resulted in the deaths...

<p>TIOGA - Bullets sprayed into the trailer as Patricia George screamed and covered her 9-month-old daughter and 3-year-old niece.</p> <p>Verna Elliott and Connie Bell huddled in another bedroom as Bell yelled into the telephone at a 911 operator.</p> <p>"I kept screaming, 'He is going to kill us,'" Bell said. "He has already shot my brother-in-law."</p>