Woman, 79, May Face Charges in Cane Attack
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Prosecutors were considering Tuesday whether to file charges against a 79-year-old woman who police say injured two officers when she struck them with a wooden cane.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A 79-year-old woman was arrested at Fort Lauderdale International Airport on Tuesday when security screeners found an unloaded gun in her carry-on bag, sheriff's officials said.
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A woman appears in court charged with wounding in connection with the death of a man found dead in a garden.
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A woman threatened to cut off part of a man's body and leave him for dead, a County Down court hears.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Two 14-year-old boys arrested after a 64-year-old disabled woman was beaten and stabbed were arraigned Monday on several charges, including aggravated assault, conspiracy and robbery.
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BELLINGHAM, Washington - The woman suspected foul play was afoot. She was half right. Police barricaded streets near a branch of St. Joseph Hospital Thursday after a woman called to report a man with an assault rifle walking into a medical office building.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa - Testimony began Tuesday against a 76-year-old man accused of beating his 81-year-old neighbor with a hammer after she refused to give him gambling money.  Richard Edison Johnson is charged with attempted murder and willful injury.
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CHICAGO - A woman who sued William Kennedy Smith said Thursday that the member of the prominent political family sexually assaulted her five years ago "in a manner that will haunt me to the day I die."  "Today I am putting William Kennedy Smith on notice. You will not victimize another woman and be able to keep it silent if I can help it," Audra Soulias said at a news conference...
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ROCK HILL, S.C. - A police officer used a stun gun on a 75-year-old woman who became distraught when she could not locate a sick friend at a nursing home, according to an internal report.
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A 22-year-old developmentally disabled woman weighing only 43 pounds was found in a bedroom at her mother's home, and the mother was charged with abusing her, authorities said.
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A woman is charged with grievous bodily harm with intent in connection with the death of a man in London.
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CLIFFORD, Pa. - A 72-year-old Reading man was jailed on charges that he committed home invasions in far northeastern Pennsylvania in which other septuagenarians were struck on the head with a hammer and bound with rope and handcuffs.
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WENATCHEE, Wash. - A 57-year-old woman has been arrested for investigation of residential burglary, accused of trying to sneak into her neighbor's house through the doggie door...
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27-year-old charged over stabbing as PC's widow pays tribute to a devoted father.
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ATLANTA - A man dressed as Santa Claus was charged with assault Friday, accused of using a board to strike a 74-year-old woman in the face and head, police said.
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A woman has been charged with animal cruelty for what police call a retaliatory killing of a parakeet. Witnesses told police that Andrea Grantham, of Martinsburg, brandished a knife during a weekend property dispute with a neighbor.
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Victim's fight could make legal history by extending the deadline for sufferers to seek compensation.