Assault

A Maryland man with a lengthy criminal record is accused of attacking a woman inside a laboratory at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. The woman, an NIH employee, was preparing an experiment inside the lab Thursday, when she was assaulted and ran for help, according to an affidavit filed by a NIH police officer. Court filings obtained by…

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

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

Montgomery County Park Police are looking for a cyclist who was caught on video going after a group of young people posting protest sign on a popular trail. News4’s Pat Collins reports.

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

Police arrested two people suspected of attacking and robbing an FBI employee in Judiciary Square on Feb. 6 as well as two other people in Northwest D.C. The FBI employee was attacked and robbed about 6:15 a.m. Feb. 6 in the 400 block of F Street NW, police said. The victim was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Nearby…

Police have linked two suspects who attacked an FBI employee in Judiciary Square on Feb. 6 to three other incidents across northwest D.C.

Authorities are seeking the public’s help to determine who the individuals are in the footage from a recent string of assaults and robberies.

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was assaulted during a public appearance in South Africa on Saturday, but the 71-year-old appeared to quickly recover and say “I’m just glad the idiot didn’t interrupt my Snapchat.” Video shows the former California governor standing and filming children at a sporting event in Johannesburg when a man makes a flying kick into his back. Schwarzenegger stumbles...

A Kentucky elementary school teacher has been removed from her school and faces charges of assault after she was seen on video dragging a student with autism down a hallway, NBC News reported. In the minute-long video, shared Sunday on Facebook by the child’s mother, Angel Nelson, the female teacher pulls the boy by his wrists down the hall in...

“Anger Room” creator Donna Alexander died after police say she was assaulted by 34-year-old Nathaniel Mitchell.

Four people are hospitalized after a stabbing at a hotel in Gaithersburg, Maryland, police say.

A Milwaukee restaurant employee used her gun to scare off an attacker after her co-worker was punched in the face.

Depending on who you talk to, a bloody brawl at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana two years ago was started by a foul-mouthed defense attorney or an expletive-spewing Orange County District Attorney’s Office investigator.

Authorities have taken a suspect into custody and are looking for two others after a sheriff’s deputy was shot to death during a confrontation north of Denver. A spokeswoman for The Adams County Sheriff’s Office says deputies were called to an “assault in progress” Wednesday night and saw one of the suspects run behind a house. She says that suspect...

A pastor from a Glendale church is being sought by police after authorities say he was caught on camera masturbating outside a Covina hotel before then assaulting a minor.

A man who was kicked in the head and punched during a traffic stop Wednesday in Georgia told NBC News it was his second encounter with one of the officers within days. After videos of one of the incidents appeared online, the Gwinnett County Police Department fired both police officers, saying the videos confirmed “the force used was unnecessary and...

Despite United Airlines’ high-profile blunder in yanking a passenger from a full flight, the odds of getting bumped from your next flight on a U.S. carrier are very small, CNBC reported. But a lot depends on which airline you choose to fly. According to data from the US Department of Transportation, ExpressJet and Skywest, who removed some 20 passengers per...

Reports of sexual assaults increased at two of the three military academies last year and an anonymous survey suggests sexual misconduct rose across the board at the schools, The Associated Press has learned. The new data underscore the challenge in stemming bad behavior by young people at the military college campuses, despite a slew of programs designed to prevent assaults,...