Former football star Deion Sanders and a third person also were cited for misdemeanor assault in an incident this week that resulted in Sanders' estranged wife being arrested and taken into custody, according to a statement Wednesday by the Prosper, Texas, police department.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has announced new initiatives to curtail what he calls "the epidemic" of rape and sexual assaults in our armed forces. In 2010, an estimated 19,000 service members were raped or sexually assaulted by other service members. Clearly, more resources devoted to counseling for victims and training for prosecutors and judges will help.
CNN talks to Rep. Jackie Speier, who is calling for impartial investigations of alleged rape in the U.S. military.
Texas police on Friday released a composite sketch of a man they believe broke into the homes of four former members of the same sorority, then sexually assaulted them.
Violent crime in the United States continues to drop significantly despite the difficult economic environment, according to new statistics released Friday by the Justice Department.
Despite reports, experts say the outcome of overlapping investigations is still unclear
Authorities say a fellow inmate working in the kitchen of a Michigan jail tried to serve a poisoned apple to a serial stabbing suspect after the two had an altercation behind bars.
Philadelphia police say DNA evidence recovered at the scene of a murder matches two other murders in the area.
DNA has linked the slayings of three women, Philadelphia police said Tuesday night in announcing they are looking for a serial killer.
Federal investigators joined police in their search for a suspect believed to be linked to five attacks in a Philadelphia neighborhood, including two recent homicides and three aggravated assaults.
Police are investigating what they say could be a link between five attacks in a Philadelphia neighborhood, including two recent homicides and three aggravated assaults. Because of the location, the method and the description of the victims, police believe there is a correlation between the homicides and assaults.
A campaign volunteer for Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul was identified by police Tuesday as a suspect in the stomping of a woman outside the venue of a televised debate Monday night.
Outside the Kentucky Senate debate, a woman representing liberal group MoveOn.org was pushed to the ground and stomped.
R&B singer Mario was arrested for allegedly assaulted his mother during an argument in their Baltimore, Maryland, apartment early Friday, police said.
Twelve U.S. soldiers face a variety of charges in what military authorities believe was a conspiracy to murder Afghan civilians and cover it up, along with charges they used hashish, mutilated corpses and kept grisly souvenirs.
Five U.S. soldiers facing murder charges in the deaths of three Afghan civilians earlier this year have now been charged with "conspiracy to commit premeditated murder," and seven more soldiers have been charged in connection with the probe into the incidents.
It has been a bruising two weeks for the girlfriends of a few high-profile athletes.
University of Tennessee head football coach Derek Dooley dismissed one player and suspended two others Friday following a bar fight that sent an off-duty Knoxville police officer who tried to intervene to the hospital.
A bar owner describes a fight involving Univ. of Tenn. football team members that left an off-duty police officer hurt.
NFL QB Vince Young is accused of striking another individual in the face in an alleged altercation at a strip club.
A driver for Naomi Campbell told police that he was assaulted by the supermodel Tuesday, according to the New York Police Department.
CNN's Becky Anderson talks with supermodel Naomi Campbell about her charity work and what she's doing for Haiti.
An Alabama professor accused of gunning down her colleagues at a university last week faced criminal charges after an altercation at a Massachusetts restaurant nearly eight years ago, police said Wednesday.
Mark Kerrigan, facing assault charges, must undergo a psychiatric evaluation
Daniel Kerrigan is found unresponsive at home after an alleged altercation with his son
A 20-year-old woman from Iraq has died in an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after her father, police say, ran her over with a car because she had become "too Westernized."
An Iraqi man accused of running down his daughter in Arizona because she had become "too Westernized" is being held on two counts of aggravated assault, police said Saturday.
A Maryland mother faces assault charges for allegedly ordering a group of teens to beat up a 14-year-old who was stabbed in the ensuing melee, Baltimore County police said Friday.
A plea deal has been reached in the assault case against singer Chris Brown, defense attorney Mark Geragos said in a hearing Monday.
A 23-year-old medical student pleaded not guilty Monday to an indictment alleging first-degree murder charge in a killing tied to Craigslist.
Philip Markoff pleads not guilty to charges related to the so-called Craigslist killing.
A Massachusetts grand jury late last week indicted a 23-year-old medical student on seven counts, including first-degree murder, in the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery of another in Boston hotels.
Four minor boys are facing felony assault charges after a 13-year-old boy accused them of sexually assaulting him in the locker room of a Tampa, Florida, middle school, authorities said Friday.
A medical student accused of killing a masseuse in a Boston, Massachusetts, hotel room will be charged in a hotel assault in Rhode Island, the state attorney general said Monday.
Philip Markoff, the suspect in the Boston Craigslist killing, faces an arrest warrant in Rhode Island.
WFMZ: Two teens accused of beating an illegal immigrant to death have been acquitted of some charges.
Singer Chris Brown pleaded not guilty in his felony assault case Monday in a Los Angeles, California, courtroom.
CNN's Kiran Chetry speaks to Keith Melton, one of the men who tackled the attacker of slain pastor Fred Winters.
The suspect accused of killing a minister at an Illinois church had marked the day of the attack as a "day of death" or "death day" in a planning book, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
The newest star of Bravo's New York City series is charged with misdemeanor assault
Adnan Ghalib faces felonies after allegedly smashing his car into a man serving a restraining order
Premier League leaders Liverpool threw their "full support" behind Steven Gerrard after their captain was charged with assault on Tuesday following an incident at a local nightclub.
Two investigators testified Friday that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick shoved
one of them into the other and a made racial remark while they were
trying to deliver a subpoena to one of the mayor's friends
A Turks and Caicos judge says Carl Blonsky must stay behind bars until his trial Aug. 19
They face jail terms in a brawl in the Caribbean involving an America's Next Top Model contestant
Serbian fugitive
updated: Sat Jul 26 2008 07:22:00
The U.S. government is attempting to extradite a Serbian national who is accused of beating an American into a coma.
The woman who accused the country singer has been charged with filing a false report
Olly Barkley is back in contention for England's rugby tour of New Zealand in June after prosecutors dropped an assault charge against the Bath fly-half on Tuesday.
CNN's Lola Ogunnaike talks about Naomi Campbell and the luggage problem that led to her arrest.
Rapper and reality-TV mainstay Da Brat has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault after a fight early Thursday morning at a bar outside Atlanta, according to reports.
Using a Facebook profile, police arrested a suspect in an attack on the Georgetown University campus.
New Jersey law enforcement was ordered Wednesday to notify federal immigration officials whenever someone arrested for an indictable offense or drunken driving is determined to be an illegal immigrant.
Newark shooting questions
Three Atlanta, Georgia, police officers were indicted Thursday -- two on felony murder charges -- in the shooting death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid on Thanksgiving eve.
Hip-hop musician and actor Busta Rhymes is going to trial to face misdemeanor assault charges in two separate incidents.
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The downtrodden Sacramento Kings travel to the Palace of Auburn Hills on Saturday night to play the suddenly somnolent Detroit Pistons in what should be, oh, the 77th-most interesting thing going on in your world that day.
A Duke University lacrosse player charged with raping an exotic dancer at a team party will face trial in Washington in an unrelated assault case.
Moments before their trial was to begin, five white South Carolina youths admitted their roles in a mob attack on a black teen and received prison sentences from a judge who called their actions "despicable" and "cowardly."
Prosecutors said Tuesday they will seek the death penalty in the state case against courthouse shooting suspect Brian G. Nichols.
A registered sex offender jailed on an assault charge was being questioned in the disappearance of a 13-year-old Florida girl missing since the weekend, the Hillsborough County sheriff said late Wednesday afternoon.
One of the U.S. soldiers charged in the Iraq prison abuse scandal has reached agreement on a plea deal with U.S. military officials, according to the attorney for the soldier.
Indiana Pacers forward Ron Artest has been suspended for the rest of the season for fighting with fans after an NBA game against the Detroit Pistons ended with a brawl in the stands.
Two suburban Atlanta schoolgirls accused of using a poisoned cake to sicken more than a dozen classmates are scheduled to appear before a juvenile court judge on assault charges Friday.
A federal judge agreed Wednesday to set up procedures to help keep secret what the CIA may have been doing in the mountains of Afghanistan when one of its independent contractors allegedly beat a detainee who died a day later.
Rebel rocker and courtroom fashion plate Courtney Love is expected to surrender to Los Angeles authorities Friday to face new charges of assault with a deadly weapon.
The father of teenage actress Lindsay Lohan has been charged with assaulting a relative at a family gathering.
Police will question Sir Paul McCartney about a scuffle that broke out when the former Beatle went to see illusionist David Blaine in his glass box in London, reports say.
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