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At least three school pupils have been injured in a knife attack in Sweden after two rival gangs fought at a sports event, according to local media reports. The students were rushed to hospital following the stabbing at a sports facility in the town of Eskilstuna, reports TV4. The TV station had initially reported that the attack took place at a school but the headmaster later said the pupils had been at a different location at the time of the incident. .....

Police are investigating a stabbing inside a West Mount Airy Wawa. They say it started because of a disgruntled customer. It happened at the store located on the 7200 block of Germantown Avenue around 10:30 p.m. Thursday. Police say an employee was unpacking boxes when a male customer began yelling and then punched and choked the employee because he wasn’t being served. When the man tried to go around the counter with a knife, investigators say the employee pulled out his own knife, stabbing the suspect. “That’s crazy, especially when you coming to work the normal shift and you have...

A U.S. female sailor beat a bus driver and would-be rapist into submission when she was on a 24-hour shore leave in the United Arab Emirates. Court records from Wednesday show that the woman, age 28, hopped on the bus at Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates shopping center on Jan 19. “I noticed he did not take the main road and when I asked him he told me not to worry,” she said the Daily Mail reported, according to The Washington Times. The Times report continued: He then stopped where several other buses were parked and tried to kiss her....

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith's store. Police say the suspect purchased a knife inside the store and then turned it into a weapon. Smith's employee Dorothy Espinoza says, "He pulled it out and stood outside the Smiths in the foyer. And just started stabbing people and yelling you killed my people. You killed my people." Espinoza says, the knife wielding man seriously injured two people. "There is blood all over. One got stabbed in...

You read that right. Courtland Milloy, a Washington Post columnist, is touting the efficacy of allowing concealed carry in the District. This after a man who was walking his dog was attacked and killed by a knife-wielding neighbor. We know that the ‘we’re winning’ articles and posts can get pretty repetitive and tired but you know what? We’re winning . . . Milloy does a nice job of tying in the recent Maryland court ruling, too: Whether or not this story proves to be as insane as it sounds, the incident as reported does provide a textbook case for legalizing...

TAMARAC, Fla. - A Walgreens employee allegedly stabbed a co-worker in an argument over who could microwave her soup first, authorities said. Both women wanted to use the microwave in the employee break room Wednesday afternoon, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office. While they were fighting over who could use the microwave first, Mellesia Grant grabbed a large kitchen knife off the counter and stabbed Merloze Tilme in the abdomen, the sheriff's office said. "They didn't get along to begin with. Who could use the microwave first became a major issue," Broward County Sheriff's Office spokesman Jim Leljedal said....

SANTA CRUZ — Two teen girls arrested for stabbing a 13-year-old girl outside Santa Cruz High School had participated earlier in the day in a conflict-resolution process at the alternative school they attend. Detectives believe the Monday afternoon stabbing, which did not involve Santa Cruz High students, was sparked by the suspected stabber’s belief that the victim had spread a rumor about her to a boy, Sgt. Brad Goodwin said. The alleged attackers, ages 13 and 14 and whose names are not being released because they’re juveniles, were arrested at one of the girl’s homes in Santa Cruz about 7...

Boise Knife Maker Carves Niche Helping U.S. Special Forces Soldiers By Jon Hanian Boise, ID - His name is Christopher Reeve, "Just as in superman." But he readily admits he is no way affiliated with superman. He just happens to make knives for the next best thing, the United States Army Green Berets. "This is the best military knife on the market and that is not sales (B.S.) that is fact." That bravado is backed by the fact this little machine shop in Boise, is cranking out one of kind hand crafted knives made to exacting specifications that have...

Sgt. Lee Senteno of Headquarters and Support Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, takes advantage of a perceived opening while engaged in simulated knife combat with Apache Knife Fighting instructor Robert Redfeather MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.(October 20, 2003) -- He's lethal - and he's free. Marines at 1st Marine Regiment are taking complimentary training from a Native American master of bladed warfare. "None of this is theory," Shi Gong Robert Redfeather said at the beginning of his Apache Knife Fighting seminar. "Everything I teach, I have used. It's not fancy. It is direct and precise - for killing."...