A local San Diego police sergeant is under investigation Thursday, accused of attacking a subordinate in front of a group of sixth graders after a practical joke.
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Two New Orleans police officers have been charged with battery after repeatedly punching a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication outside a bar near Bourbon Street on Saturday night. A third officer has been charged with battery after assaulting an Associated Press Television News producer as a cameraman taped the confrontations. [with video]
Stanley and the Stanford Racing Team were awarded 2 million dollars for being the first team to complete the 132 mile DARPA Grand Challenge course. Stanley finished in just under 6 hours 54 minutes and averaged over 19 miles per hours on the course.
Yuma County sheriff's deputies will now be patrolling the Arizona-Mexico border in a surplus British military armored personnel carrier. The $18,000, nine-ton, six-wheeled vehicle is needed because of increased attacks against deputies and U.S. Border Patrol agents by drug and migrant smugglers, sheriff's and patrol officials said. The agencies frequently work together.
Thieves have stolen one of Britain's rarest trees from Kew's country garden in West Sussex. Botanists said that the southern beech tree, Nothofagus gunnii, which disappeared last week, would probably die because of the damage caused to the roots and lack of the care needed to make it grow.
Gold may extend its longest rally of the year, topping the highest prices since 1988, as investors stock up on bullion as a hedge against accelerating inflation.