Wallace Assailant Earns Release

Police say he attacked judge, but witnesses disagree

(AP) - A police officer shot and wounded a man who was in court on a harassment charge today after authorities say he attacked a judge and tried to grab a gun from a spectator. Some people who were in the courtroom disputed that account, saying they did not see the man hit or threaten the judge or attempt to grab a weapon. Sara Williams said she was sitting in the front row when the man, whom she knew, got agitated after the judge fined him $800. He was wearing a cast on his leg and waved one of his crutches in the air. More»

He was teaching them about angles

(NEWSER) - Remember word problems? Those cute math class constructions where you learn a skill through real-world examples? Well an Alabama geometry teacher got a little too real for the Secret Service, when he used the hypothetical assassination of Barack Obama to teach his high school students about angles. “He said, 'If you're in this building, you would need to take this angle to shoot the president,” one student told the Birmingham News . More»

James von Brunn dead at 89 in prison hospital

(AP) - The 89-year-old man accused of a deadly shooting at the Holocaust museum in Washington has died in a prison hospital, a government official says. James von Brunn reportedly died at a federal complex in Butner, North Carolina. He had been awaiting trial for the killing of security guard Stephen T. Johns at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10. More»

Man kills two others in wife's family ahead of divorce trial

(NEWSER) - A man shot dead his wife, teenage daughter, and two members of his wife's family before taking his own life in northern Alabama, AP reports. The man's body was found yesterday near his home, which had been burned to the ground. His divorce trial was due to start today and investigators believe his wife's relatives may have been on the witness list. More»

(NEWSER) - The man responsible for the deaths of four Oakland police officers over the weekend had an extensive criminal history, the Tribune reports. Lovelle Mixon, 26, spent 5 years in prison for a 2002 assault with a firearm. After he was paroled, he was a suspect in a 2007 murder; though police couldn’t make the case, he was sent back to prison for parole violations. More»