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Police say they would likely file second-degree assault charges if they catch the person who put industrial-strength glue on a public toilet seat at a Maryland WalMart, forcing emergency workers to rescue a man who was sitting in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Newark Post reports.

Moreno Valley police were looking Monday for a 19-year-old man suspected of taking part in what authorities said was the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl.

A bomb exploded near a bus stop in a Jewish neighbourhood of Jerusalem on Wednesday, injuring at least 30 people, police and medics said.

A Taco Bell customer enraged that the seven burritos he ordered had gone up in price fired a BB gun at an employee and later fired an assault rifle at officers, police said.

The Glendale Police Department has placed two more of its officers on administrative leave in separate alleged incidents.

Bosnian police say they have seized some 2 million child pornography pictures and 7,000 video clips in the arrest of an alleged member of an international online child pornography ring.

Bahrain's opposition asked for U.N. and American intervention in the government crackdown on the Shiite protests trying to loosen the monarchy's grip, in a brief protest Sunday in the capital that disbanded before police could arrive to break it up.

Authorities have charged the owner of a central North Carolina store after investigators say he kept a customer's winning lottery ticket worth nearly $90,000.

Students at a Washington, DC, elementary school ingested cocaine brought to the school by a fellow pupil today, school officials confirmed.

Mel Gibson was booked and released at El Segundo Police Department on Wednesday night as part of his sentence for the misdemeanor battery case.