Dec 10 - By Associated Press
Actors in the Broadway smash "Wicked" didn't let screaming and swearing in the audience ruin their performance in Ohio.
Dec 7 - By Shelia Byrd, Associated Press Writer
Police are investigating a fight between a former Mississippi congressman and a youth-league soccer coach after a weekend game.
Nov 22 - By Stephen Hawkins, AP Sports Writer
Cowboys cornerback Terence Newman and secondary coach Dave Campo had a brief physical confrontation on the sideline Sunday, though Campo and head coach Wade Phillips both downplayed the incident after Dallas' 7-6 victory over the Washington Redskins.
Nov 20 - By Jim Salter, Associated Press Writer
A black school teacher charged with assaulting white police officers, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace has agreed a plea deal with prosecutors convicting her of two misdemeanor counts.
Nov 20 - By Jim Salter, Associated Press Writer
A jury is deliberating the fate of a black school teacher charged with assaulting white police officers in Missouri
Nov 16 - By Betsy Taylor, Associated Press Writer
Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store and touched off what she calls a racially charged dispute with white customers and authorities, the young black schoolteacher faces a trial that could send her to prison for 15 years.

Oct 7 - By Corey Williams, Associated Press Writer
Scuffles erupted as several thousand Detroit residents jockeyed, pushed and shoved Wednesday to get free money being offered to only 3,500 of the city's recently or soon to be homeless.
Aug 19 - By Associated Press
Authorities said a 23-year-old woman was arrested after a scuffle with a 13-year-old boy in a wheelchair at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. The woman was charged with injury to a child in connection with the struggle over a soccer ball on Tuesday night.
Feb 24 - By Associated Press
Former Rhode Island Gov. Bruce Sundlun says he was pushed to the ground during a scuffle at a bank but isn't pressing charges.
Feb 9 - By Associated Press
When it comes to waiting all night in the employment line, there's no jumping ahead.

Oct 20 - By Peter Enav, Associated Press Writer
Angry protesters in southern Taiwan assaulted an envoy from rival China on Tuesday, part of an escalating reaction by the pro-independence opposition to President Ma Ying-jeou's policy of greater engagement with Beijing.

Oct 18 - By NASSER SHIYOUKHI, STF
Jewish settlers attacked a Palestinian photographer who was taking pictures of Palestinian farmers picking olives in the West Bank on Saturday.
Jun 19 - By Associated Press
A murderer who punched a deputy after he was convicted of killing his wife and son last month now has threatened the judge at his sentencing hearing in Battle Creek, Mich.

May 14 - By Associated Press
A man punched a sheriff's deputy and tried to grab the officer's handgun from its holster after a judge convicted him of murdering his wife and son.
Jan 31 - By Phillip Rawls, Associated Press Writer
A Republican state senator who punched a Democratic colleague in the head on the Senate floor will not be punished, a legislative panel said Thursday.
Dec 18 - By Associated Press
A man subdued a deer that ran through the front picture window of his house. Martin "Pete" Castle wrestled the beast to the floor in the living room, and carried it out through the garage door, when Frederick County Animal Control officers took over.

Jun 8 - By Bob Johnson, Associated Press Writer
A Republican lawmaker slugging a Democratic colleague in the Alabama Senate this week reminded political observers of another black eye for the Legislature: Eight years ago, the lieutenant governor urinated in a jug, discreetly, at the front of the Senate chamber.

Jun 16 - By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer
A grand jury declined Friday to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney in connection with a confrontation in which she admitted hitting a police officer who tried to stop her from entering a House office building.
Jun 6 - By Jim Abrams, Associated Press Writer
A major wrestling match in Congress over control of the Internet features some strange tag teams — rockers and evangelists vs. phone companies and the Bells' usually biggest adversary, cable TV companies.

Apr 6 - By Mark Sherman, Associated Press Writer
With a grand jury investigating and little support from House colleagues, Rep. Cynthia McKinney reversed course and apologized Thursday for an altercation in which she entered a Capitol building unrecognized, refused to stop when asked by a police officer and then hit him.

Apr 5 - By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer
The announced resignation of a powerful Republican congressman usually would be enough scandal for one week on Capitol Hill. Instead, a Democratic congresswoman has grabbed the spotlight since her run-in with a Capitol Police officer.

Apr 4 - By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer
U. S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said Wednesday that Rep. Cynthia McKinney turned an officer's failure to recognize her into a criminal matter when she failed to stop at his request, and then struck him.

Mar 31 - By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer
Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman who had an altercation with a Capitol Police officer, said Friday the officer started the incident by "inappropriately touching and stopping" her after she walked past a security checkpoint.

Mar 29 - By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer
Rep. Cynthia McKinney and a police officer scuffled Wednesday after the Georgia Democrat entered a House office building unrecognized and refused to stop when asked, according to U.S. Capitol Police.