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Sleepwalker beaten after men find him in apartment

Charges have been filed against three men accused of beating a man who sleepwalks after they found him asleep in one of the men's apartment. Iowa City Police Sgt. Troy Kelsay said the 21-year-old victim who was not identified, suffered injuries over most of his body. Kelsay said the man's injuries did not appear to require hospitalization, but the victim was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Judge: Mich. man can sue store he robbed

A Michigan judge says a man who claims he was chased, shot and beaten by workers at a store he'd just robbed can sue the men. But only if he comes up with $10,000 within two weeks.

Utah man sentenced in pregnant teen beating case

A Utah man was sentenced Tuesday to up to five years in prison for beating a pregnant girl to try to cause a miscarriage, after police say she paid him to.

Plea withdrawn in Utah hired beating case

A Utah teenager who pleaded no contest to hiring a man to beat her in an effort to induce a miscarriage has been released from jail after a judge ruled that she was seeking an abortion and was not criminally liable.

NYPD: Beating of gay man a possible hate crime

New York City police say a 49-year-old gay man leaving a corner deli near his home was beaten by two men in an apparent hate crime.

Man, 2 teens plead innocent in Md. hate crime

A man and two teenagers have pleaded not guilty in what authorities describe as a racially motivated beating of an elderly black fisherman.

3 indicted in racially motivated Md. beating

A grand jury has indicted a man and two teenagers arrested last month on charges of beating an elderly black fisherman in a Baltimore park.

Supreme Court orders bail for Mass. man in beating

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the state of Massachusetts to grant bail to a man convicted of beating an elementary school teacher with a baseball bat.

Md. police arrest 2 teens in alleged hate beating

Two teenagers were charged as adults Thursday in what police say was the racially motivated beating of an elderly black fisherman.

Venezuelans protest beatings of journalists

Hundreds gathered in Venezuela on Friday to demand justice after a group of journalists protesting media regulations were kicked, punched and beaten with sticks.

Kidnap victim in Miss. beats alleged sex attacker

Police had been watching Vincent Goff for years, convinced he was the masked man who sexually assaulted couples at gunpoint on the Mississippi coast. But before investigators closed in, they say Goff picked the wrong victim and was beaten nearly to death with his own rifle.

No contest plea in pregnant Utah girl's beating

A pregnant Utah teenager charged with hiring a man to beat her in an effort to induce a miscarriage has entered a no contest plea in juvenile court.

Cop taped beating Chicago bartender gets probation

An off-duty Chicago police officer convicted of pummeling a female bartender half his size was sentenced Tuesday to two years probation and anger management classes for the videotaped attack that appeared worldwide on the Internet and cable news channels.

Chicago officer convicted of battery on bartender

A hulking Chicago police officer who claimed he pummeled a female bartender half his size because he thought he was in danger was found guilty Tuesday of aggravated battery.

Prosecutors charge pregnant girl in beating case

Prosecutors say a 17-year-old girl allegedly paid a man to beat her up so she would have a miscarriage.

Boy, 16, pleads guilty to taking beaten man's bike

A 16-year-old boy charged with attacking a bicyclist has pleaded guilty to larceny in a deal with Michigan prosecutors.

Life for Md. teen who killed mom after grade fight

A Maryland teenager who never got in trouble before beating his mother to death with a baseball bat after an argument over his grades was sentenced to life in prison Friday.

Jury clears Puerto Rico police in Marine's beating

A jury acquitted three Puerto Rican police officers of federal civil rights charges Friday in the beating of a Dominican-born U.S. Marine at a baseball game between the two Caribbean rivals.

5 teens charged in beating of Mich. bicyclist

Five Michigan teens have been charged in the beating of a 50-year-old bicyclist that left the man critically injured.

Mich. cyclist beaten by teens expected to recover

The brother of a man who was attacked while riding a bicycle in Michigan says he is expected to survive but will require surgery because of injuries to his face.

NYC cabbie is mistaken for mugger and beaten

Police said a cab driver who tried to take a purse from a woman fare beater was beaten by a group who thought they were seeing a robbery. Police said it happened Saturday morning near the Staten Island Ferry Terminal when four woman, who had been club-going, got into a fight with the cab driver over the fare.

Md. prep school student pleads to killing mom

A Maryland teenager calmly admitted in court Monday that he beat his mother to death with a baseball bat after an argument over his grades at a prestigious private school.

Man charged with bat beating of 2 boys in Phoenix

A man suspected of brutally beating two boys with a baseball bat at a Phoenix park has been charged with first-degree murder.

Hundreds protest Russian journalist's beating

A few hundred people have demonstrated in the Russian capital to protest an attack on a crusading journalist.

Mother admits beating daughter to death with mop

Police say a woman has admitted she beat her 11-year-old daughter with a mop handle and left her to die in bed in her New York City apartment.

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BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Man killed in Halloween hat row
Source: BBC News

A man was beaten to death by a gang after he confronted a thief who stole his girlfriend's Halloween hat.

Gang rape raises questions about bystanders' role
Source: CNN

For more than two hours on a dark Saturday night, as many as 20 people watched or took part as a 15-year-old California girl was gang raped and beaten outside a high school homecoming dance, authorities said.

Cracker Barrel Beating May Be Hate Crime
Source: wsbtv.com2

The FBI is investigating the beating of an African-American woman by a white man at a Cracker Barrel restaurant as a possible hate crime. Morrow police said they arrested Troy Dale West, of Poulan, Ga.

Father wants son's beating treated as a hate crime
Source: CNN

Armed with a chunk of concrete, several assailants beat Brian Milligan Jr. on the back of the head on August 18, leaving a 3-inch gash.

Jury say woman's disorderly-conduct arrest unwarranted
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

A Bucks County woman who had been robbed and left bleeding outside the Tweeter Center in Camden just didn't behave well as a crime victim, or so police thought.

Rape suspect: I was doing her a favor
Source: St. Petersburg Times > Local News

A 22-year-old Club Med employee in Port St. Lucie is accused of raping a 41-year-old vacationer, leaving her bleeding and bruised.

Journalist beaten for negative reporting on a business
Source: croatiantimes.com

Investigative journalist Stjepan Mesaric has been attacked and injured by the son of local businessman Branko Zganac in Mursko Sredisce in Medjimurje county.

Gang of geriatric kidnappers arrested
Source: thelocal.de

Police have smashed an elderly gang of suspected kidnappers aged between 60 and 79 preying on Germany's greying population.

Amnesty International cites 'shocking' beating of Iran protesters
Source: Mangalorean.com

Sadly I am not as shocked as AI... I hope the violence ends but I hope their words are heard.

Woman beaten up over asparagus prices
Source: Reuters

German police are searching for a motorist who beat a 24-year-old woman selling white asparagus because he was upset about her asking price for the coveted springtime vegetable, police said on Monday.

ShamPow! Battered By The ShamWow Guy
Source: thesmokinggun.com

MARCH 30--In last month's violent confrontation between the ShamWow Guy and a South Beach prostitute, there is no doubt which combatant took the worst of the battle.

Police Investigate Dog Found Stabbed, Shot, Choked
Source: theindychannel.com

The Humane Society is offering a $2,500 reward for information in the torture killing of a dog in eastern Indiana's Randolph County.

Off-Duty NYPD Officer Beats Black Man With Bat
Source: eurthisnthat.com

Everyone has seen someone standing in front of a liquor store or any small store asking for change?  Well, it appears that if you're a black man standing outside a Long Island Deli you might become the victim of a hate crime if you are soliciting.  It's not certain that he …

(Violent Video) Elderly Female Bus Driver Brutally Beaten By Teenage Thug
Source: eurthisnthat.com

In Kalamazoo, Mi., a bus driver took the beating of her life from a 16-year-old teenager en route to a school for emotionally challenged young people.  The bus driver merely asked the young man to sit down in his seat, but he became enraged and landed a barrage of punches to her …

Savage assault leaves cyclist with horror injuries
Source: bordermail.com.au

Excerpt: Drunken teenagers have beaten a passer-by so savagely his skull was described as a mass of shattered bone and blood.

Husband jailed for stomping wife to death - Sentence not long enough
Source: Mississauga News

Excerpt: A Mississauga man has been given an eight-year prison sentence for stomping his wife to death after he accused her of lying to him.

Video shows deputy's alleged assault on teen girl news -
Source: komonews.com

A security video released Friday shows a King County sheriff's deputy purportedly shoving and kicking a 15-year-old girl in a holding cell after her arrest.

Bloody man arrested after police find body - Officers responding to a domestic violence call find one man dead and another man covered in blood at a home on Sungrove Circle
Source: The Orange County Register

GARDEN GROVE – Garden Grove police investigating a domestic violence call early this morning found one man lying face down without a pulse on the floor of a bedroom and another man covered in blood.

Two Kids Beaten
Source: cbs47.com

Jerry de Jesus Sandoval's large, almond shaped brown eyes don't show any sign of what he's lived through. He said he was attacked by his neighbor, Darryl Barnamon.

Day Laborers Are Easy Prey in New Orleans
Source: The New York Times

They are the men still rebuilding New Orleans more than three years after Hurricane Katrina, the head-down laborers from Honduras, Mexico and Guatemala who work on the blazing hot roofs and inside the fetid homes for a wad of cash at the end of the day.

Teen Says Woman Made Him Live In Bathroom
Source: cfnews13.com

A Hernando County woman is in custody after deputies say she beat a 17-year-old boy and kept him locked inside a bathroom.

Nepal: Olga's girls: How to be 80+ and do something.
Source: pulitzercenter.org

Every January, 83-year-old Olga Murray of northern California goes to southwestern Nepal for the annual Maghe Sankranti winter festival. That's where she can find impoverished Tharu farmers selling their daughters to higher caste families to work as domestic slaves.

(Video) Louisiana Man Beaten For Wearing Obama T-Shirt
Source: thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com

A Barack Obama supporter in Shreveport, LA says he was badly beaten by two men at a gas station just because of his Obama bumper stickers and t-shirt.

Santa and three elves beaten up in Lapland
Source: The Sun Newspaper Online

SCARED elves at a grotty Christmas grotto have been pulled out after Santa and three of his little helpers were attacked by angry parents. Twenty-five staff were told by their temping agency to quit Lapland New Forest, while a gate worker fled after being assaulted.

Boy George 'chained up and beat male escort'
Source: Independent.co.uk

Singer Boy George chained a male escort to his bedroom wall and beat him with a metal chain as he tried to escape after a naked photo shoot, a court heard today.

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