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A drunk man allegedly attacked an Acushnet, Massachusetts police officer and spit on other officers during an incident over the weekend, according to police. Robert Nobrega, 35 of New Bedford, “appeared intoxicated,” according to police, slurring his words as he screamed at the officers and “became belligerent.” According to police, the officers were speaking to a homeowner about reports of…

Police say an argument in a supermarket parking lot escalated into an assault in which the victim said she was targeted by homophobic slurs in Portland, Maine. Police said 63-year-old Michael Roylos, of Portland, shouted at a motorist he accused of reckless driving and then assaulted her when she began recording the confrontation with her cellphone. Police Lt. Robert Martin…

A white couple face criminal charges after one of them was captured on video pulling a handgun on a Black woman and her daughters in a restaurant parking lot in Michigan

An 81-year-old pizza shop owner is recovering after allegedly being attacked by a man who refused to wear a mask in his restaurant.

A man was arrested for allegedly punching an elderly pizzeria owner in the face on Cape Cod this weekend. The confrontation began, the owner said, after he’d told the group to keep socially distancing. “I tell him to sit down, you can’t stay all together by the bar,” George Kraniotakis recalled. “He say, ‘You no tell me what to...

Prosecutors say two Buffalo police officers have been charged with assault after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old protester

A Massachusetts man is likely feeling more sour than sweet after being charged with assault for throwing a pickle out of his car window, hitting a state employee who was working on the road. Vermont State police said Christoph Herrmannsdoerfer of Williamstown, Massachusetts was driving on Route 7 in Pownal on Monday when he threw a large pickle out of…

A lawsuit accuses four white suburban St. Louis police officers of brutalizing a 68-year-old black woman and her adult son after wrongly accusing them of stealing a television

A man has been arrested after he allegedly jumped nude onto the hood of a woman’s vehicle and attacked her in Beverly, Massachusetts. Police responded around 11:30 a.m. Monday to the intersection of Washington Street and Lovett Street after receiving a report of a man with a gun. After getting to the scene, police say they learned that man...

Two guards at a federal prison in Massachusetts have pleaded not guilty to charges resulting from what authorities called an assault on a “vulnerable inmate.” Seth Bourget, 39, of Woodstock, Connecticut, was arraigned Thursday in federal court in Boston on deprivation of rights charges. Bourget kneed an inmate in the head while the inmate was handcuffed and restrained in a…

A New Hampshire man is facing charges after police say he assaulted two corrections officers over the weekend at the Hillsborough County House of Corrections. Matthew Dionne, 34, was arraigned Tuesday in Hillsborough County Superior Court for the alleged Jan. 11 assault. He was charged with two counts of assaults by prisoners. An officer who was delivering meals was allegedly…

A correction officer was assaulted Friday afternoon at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, authorities said.

A New York man has been sentenced to two months in prison for beating a woman on a cruise ship off the coast of Massachusetts so severely she required stitches, federal prosecutors say. Adam Damian Panetta, 45, of Farmingville, New York, was also sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation and fined $1,000. He pleaded guilty in September to assault…

A Massachusetts firefighter convicted of sexually abusing a teenage girl for nearly three years has been sentenced. Andrew LeColst, of Middleton, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to three counts of aggravated child rape and one count of indecent assault and battery. LeColst was sentenced to two to five years in state prison followed by five years of supervised probation. The victim…

A Massachusetts Uber driver is accused of assaulting a woman after driving her from Burlington to Leominster over the weekend. Josue Henriquez, 28, of Acushnet, drove two people from a party back to a home in Leominster, according to police in that city. After he went inside for a drink, a woman in the home called 911 to report that…

A Hudson, New Hampshire woman charged with four counts of assaulting a police officer and one count of domestic assault, according to Hudson police.

A Massachusetts man accused of striking another man with a shovel, attacking him with a box cutter and calling him anti-gay slurs has been arrested on charges of assault and committing a hate crime, Boston police said. Boston police officers responded to reports of an assault around noon Tuesday and found a man bleeding from the head. The 25-year-old man…

An arrest was made Saturday in Manchester, New Hampshire for a woman wanted for allegedly sexually assaulting a teenager. Officers made the arrest by acting on an anonymous tip.

New Hampshire police are searching for a woman they say repeatedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy from September to October of this year.