A long-standing feud ended in the arrests Wednesday of a mother and her two daughters who attacked another woman with fists, a broom handle and knives, deputies said.

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BRIDGEPORT --- A city man, who kicked and beat a 4-month-old kitten with a broomstick after he caught it licking milk from a cereal bowl, was granted special probation Wednesday.

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The prospects for the space elevator have been shaken up with a simple prototype using a broomstick. Age-Raymond Riise of the European Space Agency demonstrated the device at a space elevator conference in December.

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A decade before accusing three Duke University lacrosse players of rape, a North Carolina woman claimed to have been sexually assaulted by a trio of men when she was a teenager.

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The father of the accuser in the rape case involving Duke University lacrosse players said his daughter was raped with a broomstick during a party last month, and that explains defense lawyers' claims that no DNA from players was found on her.

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