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    Assault and battery

    FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020 photo, Cleveland Browns wide receiver and former LSU star Odell Beckham Jr. walks off the field after the NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game between Clemson and LSU in New Orleans. The New Orleans Police Department said Saturday, Jan 18, 2020, that a misdemeanor simple battery warrant for Beckham has been rescinded. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
    January 18, 2020 - 4:03 pm

    Warrant for Odell Beckham Jr. rescinded in butt-swat case

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A misdemeanor simple battery warrant for Cleveland Browns wide receiver and former LSU star Odell Beckham Jr. has been rescinded, the New Orleans Police Department confirmed Saturday. The warrant was issued Thursday as video posted on social media appeared to show Beckham...
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    January 16, 2020 - 3:02 pm

    Man charged in Hanukkah attack pleads not guilty

    NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) — The man charged in an attack at a suburban New York Hanukkah celebration that left five people wounded, one critically, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and other charges on Thursday. Grafton Thomas appeared in Rockland County Court. On Monday, he also pleaded not guilty...
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    January 15, 2020 - 10:43 am

    Actress charged in mom's stabbing death claims self-defense

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An actress charged with fatally stabbing her mother last month in suburban Kansas City told 911 operators and police that her mom was trying to kill her when she took away the knife, according to court records, but medical examiners found no signs to support her self-defense...
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    This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows John Gardner. Gardner a Texas inmate with a history of violence against women faces execution for fatally shooting his wife, who had repeatedly told friends and family she would never get out of her marriage alive. Gardner is set to receive a lethal injection Wednesday Jan. 15, 2019 for the January 2005 slaying of Tammy Gardner.(Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
    January 15, 2020 - 12:50 am

    Texas inmate faces execution for killing wife in 2005

    HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate with a history of violence against women is set to be executed Wednesday evening for fatally shooting his wife, who had feared she would never get out of her marriage alive. John Gardner, 64, is facing lethal injection for the January 2005 slaying of Tammy Gardner...
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    January 13, 2020 - 6:52 pm

    8 stabbed apparently at random in Colorado, suspect detained

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Eight people were injured by a male suspect in an apparent random stabbing rampage near downtown Colorado Springs, police said Monday. The suspect was restrained by some of his victims and arrested before dawn by officers, police said in a statement. Some of the...
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    David Meehan, lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit accusing the State of New Hampshire of covering up decades of sexual, physical and emotional abuse at its youth detention center, poses outside his lawyer's office in Portsmouth, N.H., Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. Meehan accuses three staffers, one who later worked for the Boston Red Sox, of sexually assaulting him, and others of witnessing and enabling the abuse. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
    January 12, 2020 - 8:24 am

    AP Exclusive: Dozens allege abuse at youth detention center

    PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — More than two dozen men and women say they were physically, sexually and emotionally abused as children at New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center over the course of three decades, according to attorneys who have filed a class action lawsuit on their behalf. The...
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    This photo provided by Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office shows damage from Friday nights severe weather, including the home of an elderly in Bossier Parish, La., on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. The Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office said that the bodies of an elderly couple were found Saturday near their demolished trailer by firefighters. A search for more possible victims was underway. (Lt. Bill Davis/Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office via AP)
    January 11, 2020 - 4:51 pm

    Storms sweep across South, death toll rises to 9

    HOUSTON (AP) — Severe storms sweeping across parts of the U.S. South were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least nine people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain battered a large area of the region. Storm-related fatalities were reported in Texas,...
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    FILE - In this June 6, 2019, file photo, singer R. Kelly appears in court in Chicago. Chicago police say two girlfriends of R. Kelly fought Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, inside the embattled singer’s Trump Tower condominium, resulting in one of the women being taken to a nearby hospital. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool, File)
    January 09, 2020 - 8:46 am

    R Kelly girlfriend charged after fight at singer's condo

    CHICAGO (AP) — A fight between two of R. Kelly's girlfriends inside the embattled singer’s Trump Tower condominium has led to a domestic battery charge against one of the women and sent the other to the hospital, Chicago police said Thursday. Joycelyn Savage, 24, was taken into custody after...
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    In this Dec. 30, 2019, photo, Shoshana Blum, a 20-year-old junior at City College of New York, waits for a taxi in New York. Despite having been victim to a verbal and physical anti-Semitic attack on the subway, Blum wears her Star of David pendant, a visible marker of her Jewish identity, proudly. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)
    January 08, 2020 - 11:51 am

    Stabbings, shootings, assaults weigh on US Jewish youth

    NEW YORK (AP) — When a man spewed anti-Semitic slurs and spat on her face, Shoshana Blum remembered her ancestors who survived the Holocaust, and instead of looking down - she defiantly stared at him eye to eye. The 20-year-old junior at City College of New York left the subway in tears. But months...
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    This Jan. 4, 2020 booking photo made available by the Volusia County, Fla., Corrections, shows Joanne Mercade, who is accused of battery after authorities say she threw a bucket of human feces at her landlord in Osteen, Fla. She is charged with battery on a person over the age of 65. (Volusia County Corrections via AP)
    January 07, 2020 - 1:08 pm

    Florida woman accused of throwing human feces at landlord

    OSTEEN, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman tossed a bucket of human feces at her landlord and somehow ended up with dried excrement smeared all over her own face, authorities said. Joanne Mercader, 59, initially told deputies that her landlord first assaulted her with excrement, according to an arrest...
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