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Australian police have arrested a man they say is affiliated with international hacking collective Lulz Security on a charge of attacking and defacing a government website, officials said Wednesday.

Reese Witherspoon is "deeply embarrassed" about what she said to police officers during her husband's arrest in Atlanta... "Do you know my name?" Witherspoon is quoted as saying in a state trooper's report. She also said: "You're about to find out who I am" and "You're about to be on national news," according to the report.

North Texas authorities have arrested the wife of a former justice of the peace who was charged with making a terroristic threat in connection with the shooting deaths of a district attorney and his wife.

A hermit who lived in the woods of Maine for 27 years was arrested breaking into a camp and admitted to more than 1,000 burglaries, police said Wednesday. Christopher Knight left home when he was 19 and his family never reported him missing.

Officials arrested a 21-year-old student, saying he appeared to have attacked students on Tuesday “at random” before being wrestled to the ground.

Republican Assemblyman Steve Katz has been charged with marijuana possession after a Thursday morning traffic stop on the Thruway. The 59-year-old was initially stopped at 10 a.m. for allegedly driving 80 mph northbound on the toll road close by the town of Coeymans.

El Cajon police on Tuesday said that that a foot chase with naked man who spread feces on the roof of a car had ended with his arrest. While responding to reports of a prowler at around 1:45 a.m. on Tuesday morning, El Cajon police observed a man “standing on top of a Toyota Camry, smearing feces on the car,” according to KGTV.

Rapper MC Hammer launched a string of tweets Saturday with his side of the story two days after he was arrested in Northern California for allegedly obstructing an officer.

Three baristas accused of giving customers peep shows along with their coffee have been arrested in Washington state, accused of operating an adult cabaret without a license from the drive-thru windows of two Grab-N-Go coffee shops, police said on Wednesday.

Police in New Jersey say they've arrested three members of the long-running "James Bond Gang" that had been targeting high-end homes in affluent neighborhoods across the tri-state for years.