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  • October 2008

    • Bangkok Pol Assaults Host on Live TV

      Reuters  |  Oct 2, 08 3:28 PM CDT

      Bangkok Pol Assaults Host on Live TV

      (Newser) - A Thai politician, vexed by an interviewer’s questions, pummeled the man on live TV today, Reuters reports. Chuvit Kamolvisit, a strip-club magnate turned Bangkok gubernatorial contender, did not deny the charges. “What I did was a petty crime,” he said. “I am happy to pay the fine for elbowing him and kicking him.” Host Visarn Dilokwanich said the candidate “behaved like a thug.” More »

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      Thailand  • assault  • Bangkok  • battery  • television interview  • sex industry  • politician

  • September 2008

    • Oasis Star Attacked on Stage

      Sydney Morning Herald  |  Sep 9, 08 4:00 AM CDT

      Oasis Star Attacked on Stage

      (Newser) - A rogue fan attacked Oasis star Noel Gallagher during a concert in Toronto, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The man raced onto the stage and violently pushed the guitarist down into speakers as the band played What's the Story, Morning Glory? Gallagher's brother Liam and the band's bodyguards rushed the crazed fan and dragged him offstage. More »

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      concert  • assault  • rock stars  • rock bands  • Toronto  • Oasis

  • August 2008

    • OJ's Kid Decks Him in Brawl Over Girl

      New York Daily News  |  Aug 28, 08 8:40 AM CDT

      OJ's Kid Decks Him in Brawl Over Girl

      (Newser) - OJ Simpson's eldest daughter Arnelle knocked her dad to the ground during a family squabble at his Florida home, reports the New York Daily News . Arnelle, 39, was furious at Simpson for dishing out money to boozy girlfriend Christie Prody and shoved him down, according to sources. She called 911 after the fight. Her 61-year-old pop suffered a minor head injury. More »

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      celebrity  • OJ Simpson  • assault  • fight

    • Mich. Gov OKs Ouster Hearing on Kilpatrick

      Detroit News  |  Aug 27, 08 11:19 AM CDT

      Mich. Gov OKs Ouster Hearing on Kilpatrick

      (Newser) - Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will hold hearings next week on allegations that Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick misled City Council for personal gain, the Detroit News reports. The proceedings, which could remove Kilpatrick from public office for 3 years, are above and beyond criminal perjury and assault charges the beleaguered mayor faces. More »

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      Detroit  • assault  • perjury  • Kwame Kilpatrick  • Jennifer Granholm  • criminal charges

    • Detroit Mayor Rejects Deal to Step Down

      Detroit Free Press  |  Aug 22, 08 7:02 PM CDT

      Detroit Mayor Rejects Deal to Step Down

      (Newser) - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has rejected a plea deal in his assault case that would have forced him to resign, the Detroit Free Press reports. The judge in the case declined to discuss the mayor’s bond, which confines him to Detroit, and set a court date for Monday. This apparently dashes Kilpatrick’s hope of attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver next week. More »

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      Democratic National Convention  • Detroit  • resignation  • assault  • perjury  • Kwame Kilpatrick  • plea bargain

    • 'Preppy Killer' Pleads Guilty to Drug Charges

      New York Daily News  |  Aug 11, 08 4:40 PM CDT

      'Preppy Killer' Pleads Guilty to Drug Charges

      (Newser) - “Preppy killer” Robert Chambers pleaded guilty today to dealing cocaine from his Manhattan apartment, the New York Daily News reports. He also confessed to assaulting a police officer during his October arrest and faces nearly 20 years in state prison. Chambers gained national infamy in the 1980s after his “rough sex murder” of former girlfriend Jennifer Levin. More »

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      murder  • New York City  • cocaine  • assault  • Robert Chambers

  • July 2008

    • Drunk Brit Gal Pals Force Emergency Landing

      Associated Press  |  Jul 27, 08 9:55 AM CDT

      Drunk Brit Gal Pals Force Emergency Landing

      (Newser) - Two drunk British women attacked the flight crew on their charter jet en route from Greece to England, causing the pilot to make an emergency landing in Germany, AP reports. After being denied alcohol, one of the women swung a vodka bottle and tried to open the cabin door. The women may be charged with attempted assault and interfering with air traffic. More »

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      assault  • flight  • emergency landing  • drunk  • air traffic

    • Baby Cut From Mother Released From Hospital

      Associated Press  |  Jul 24, 08 8:00 AM CDT

      Baby Cut From Mother Released From Hospital

      (Newser) - A baby who was cut from his mother's womb in a brutal murder has left a Pennsylvania hospital, reports the AP. Police say 18-year-old Kia Johnson was bound with duct tape and viciously attacked last week by 38-year-old Andrea Curry-Demus, who had a history of mental illness and obsession with infants after she herself suffered a miscarriage. More »

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      baby  • assault  • womb  • Andrea Curry-Demus

    • Bale Makes Bail, Denies Mom Assault

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  Jul 22, 08 1:09 PM CDT

      Bale Makes Bail, Denies Mom Assault

      (Newser) - Batman star Christian Bale was arrested today in London after his mother and sister accused him of assaulting them in his hotel suite over the weekend, the Daily Mail reports. The women lodged their complaints yesterday, but police waited until after last night’s London premiere of The Dark Knight to question him. More »

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      celebrity  • London  • celebrity parents  • assault  • The Dark Knight  • Christian Bale  • elder abuse

    • Nurses Raise Alarm Against Attacks at Work

      New York Times  |  Jul 8, 08 6:39 AM CDT

      Nurses Raise Alarm Against Attacks at Work

      (Newser) - People may be at their most human when in pain, but often turn their anguish on their would-be healers—and now nurses are calling on workplaces and lawmakers to be more vigilant against physical attacks, the New York Times reports. “Nurses are just starting to get to the place where they’re saying, ‘I don’t have to put up with this,’” said an expert. More »

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      health care  • assault  • hospitals  • nurses

    • Cape Cod Baseball Brawl Ends in Court

      Cape Cod Times  |  Jul 7, 08 5:15 PM CDT

      Cape Cod Baseball Brawl Ends in Court

      (Newser) - A Cape Cod man is in police custody after allegedly beating another man with a baseball bat because he believed—mistakenly, it turns out—that the other man was a New York Yankees fan. Robert Correia and his friends noticed New York license plates on a car leaving a fireworks display in Falmouth, Mass., Friday night and allegedly assaulted William Nestor, the Cape Cod Times reports. More »

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      New York  • assault  • Cape Cod  • baseball bats

    • McCain Denies '87 Sandinista Tussle

      New York Times  |  Jul 3, 08 10:33 AM CDT

      McCain Denies '87 Sandinista Tussle

      (Newser) - John McCain denies colleague Thad Cochran's recollection that he physically assaulted a Nicaraguan official in 1987, the New York Times reports, saying “it’s simply not true.” The Mississippi Republican remembers that McCain “reached over and grabbed this guy by the shirt collar and…snatched him up like he was throwing him up out of the chair.” More »

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      John McCain  • Mississippi  • assault  • Nicaragua  • temper

  • June 2008

    • Mandela to Nutty Naomi: You're Not on the List

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  Jun 25, 08 5:50 PM CDT

      Mandela to Nutty Naomi: You're Not on the List

      (Newser) - Nelson Mandela personally barred Naomi Campbell from a London concert to celebrate his 90th birthday Friday, the Daily Mail reports, days after the supermodel was sentenced for assaulting airport police officers. The anti-apartheid hero—whom Campbell calls her "honorary grandfather"—is said to be particularly disappointed that she was wearing a cap bearing his charity's logo at the time of her April arrest. More »

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      celebrity  • concert  • assault  • model  • supermodel  • Nelson Mandela  • birthday  • Naomi Campbell  • Wicked Models

    • Dudes! Surfers 'Beat' Photog Snapping McConaughey

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 23, 08 6:28 AM CDT

      Dudes! Surfers 'Beat' Photog Snapping McConaughey

      (Newser) - A paparazzo trying to take photos of actor Matthew McConaughey on a Malibu beach reported to police he was attacked by a mob of surfers, the Los Angeles Times reports. The surfers approached the man and other photographers, demanded they stop filming and taking pictures an