Melissa Lawrence, a Rhode Island woman, has been charged with assault after she threw a rock, waved a baseball bat and urged her dogs to attack a news crew reporting on a kindergarten party shooting.
Major League Baseball will seek drug suspensions for about 20 players, including Most Valuable Players Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun, because of their connections to a Miami-area clinic which offered injections of performance-enhancing drugs.
A 29-year-old man was scheduled to be arraigned on Friday in Lancaster, California on murder and other charges stemming from the mauling death of a 63-year-old female jogger, Pamela Devitt, by his pack of pit bulls, with authorities saying that DNA testing confirmed his dogs attacked her.
Yanira Maldonado, the Arizona mother of 7 who was held in a Mexican Jail on a marijuana charge, was freed Thursday evening. After the court reviewed her case, including key security footage the showed Yanira and her husband Gary boarding the bus carrying only blankets, bottles of water and her purse, the authorities realized that the charges against her were false, and dismissed her case.
