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Larry Nassar, a former USA gymnastics team doctor , was assaulted in prison overnight, according to two sources familiar with the situation. Larry Nassar, a former USA gymnastics team doctor , was assaulted in prison overnight, according to two sources familiar with the situation. In this Feb. 5, 2018 file photo Larry Nassar sits in court listening to statements before being sentenced by Judge Janice Cunningham for three counts of criminal sexual assault in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich. Scott Olson/Getty Images, FILE MORE: With Larry Nassar's sentencing, his accusers share their own powerful words The extent of Nassar's injuries is unknown, but he is in stable condition, according to sources. Nassar was convicted of state and federal charges for sexually assaulting members of the USA gymnastics team. He's serving his sentences, which total hundreds of years, at a prison in Florida. In this Nov. 22, 2017 file photo, Dr. Larry Nassar appears in cour...

Two Black men who were allegedly tortured and assaulted in an incident by five Rankin County, Mississippi, deputies and one Richland police officer spoke out Thursday. The two Black men who were allegedly tortured and assault ed in an incident by five Rankin County, Mississippi, deputies and one Richland police officer, spoke out Thursday for the first time about the January interaction they say left one of them shot in the mouth. Michael Jenkins, 32, and Eddie Parker, 35, were at their residence on Jan. 24 when they say five Rankin County deputies and one Richland Police Department officer entered without a warrant to conduct a drug raid. The deputies and officer beat the men, threw eggs at them and shocked them with Tasers for roughly 90 minutes while handcuffed, according to the lawsuit filed by the men last month in collaboration with Black Lawyers for Justice. The officers also attempted to sexually assault the men with a sex toy before making them shower together before Jenkins...

A Delaware state trooper is facing felony charges for "brutally assaulting" a 15-year-old and fracturing his orbital socket in response to an apparent doorbell prank. A Delaware state trooper is facing multiple felony charges for " brutally assaulting " a 15-year- old and fracturing his orbital socket in response to an apparent doorbell prank, according to Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings. A grand jury indicted 29-year-old Dempsey Walters on felony deprivation of civil rights -- the first use of a new statute -- felony assault, two counts of misdemeanor assault and two counts of misdemeanor official misconduct. He has been suspended without pay. "When Dempsey Walters’ actions were uncovered through a DSP internal body-worn camera review, we immediately suspended him and initiated a criminal investigation. Since then, we have been working tirelessly with the Delaware Attorney General’s office to pursue justice," Col. Melissa Zebley, superintenden...

Transit police in Boston arrested a 16-year-old in connection to an alleged ethnically motivated assault on Sept. 21 against a woman of Asian descent. Transit police in Boston announced the arrest of a 16-year-old male in connection to an alleged racially motivated assault on a woman of Asian descent on the Red Line near the JFK/UMass stop in an incident that was caught on tape. The arrest on Monday was in relation to an alleged assault that occurred on Sept. 21. The investigation is ongoing, and charges will be sought, according to a statement released by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Transit Police on social media Tuesday. At around 11 p.m. local time, several juvenile male passengers aboard a Red Line train near the JFK/UMass stop "were harassing, threatening to rob passengers & taunting individuals alleged ly based on their ethnicity," MBTA said in an initial statement announcing the attack. Police said that the group of juveniles "smashed out...

The operator of a day care and her tenant have been held without bail, with a judge noting they were flight risks in the "reckless, depraved" death of a 1-year-old boy. An emotional New York City Mayor Eric Adams Monday denounced the suspects accused of the alleged opioid exposure in a Bronx day care last week, which left one toddler dead and sent three others to the hospital, and called for a "national assault" on the epidemic. Day care operator Grei Mendez and tenant Carlisto Acevedo Brito were arrested on charges including murder, manslaughter and assault and ordered to be held without bail following the "reckless, depraved" death of Nicholas Dominici, 1, last week prosecutors said. The three other victims were hospitalized, treated with Narcan, and recovering following the Friday incident, police said. Carlisto Acevedo-Brito, a suspect in the day care death of 1-year-old Nicholas Dominici, was taken from the NYPD 52nd Precinct in the Bronx on Sept. 17,...

“Jackass” star Bam Margera will stand trial on charges that he punched his brother during an altercation at their home in Pennsylvania in April WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — “Jackass” star Bam Margera must stand trial on charges that he punched his brother during an altercation at their home near Philadelphia, a judge ruled Thursday while ordering him to get a drug and alcohol screening to remain free on bail. Margera, 43, has pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charges, which include simple assault and making terroristic threats. He has been free on $50,000 bail and said Thursday that he has been in drug and alcohol treatment this year and living with former Los Angeles Lakers star Lamar Odom. “I’m not trying to get him in trouble here. I just want him to get the help because I feel like this is our last chance,” Margera's brother, Jess Margera, said in testifying about what he called two decades of troubling behavior by his brother, which he said escalated duri...

The suspect allegedly "became angry" because the fish counter was closed, the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office said in a press release on Wednesday. A Michigan man has been arrested for allegedly assault ing a grocery store clerk with a 4-pound frozen fish during a dispute, prosecutors said. The incident occurred Sunday around 7:13 p.m. local time at a grocery store in Warren, in the Detroit metro area, Macomb County prosecutors said. MORE: Woman assaults multiple flight attendants and cops with fire extinguisher at airport After the fish counter clerk informed the man that the counter had closed at 7 p.m. due to the Ramadan holiday, the suspect allegedly "became angry and argued with the clerk," the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office said in a press release on Wednesday. "The suspect then allegedly assaulted the clerk on the head with a 4-pound frozen hilsa fish," a type of herring, the prosecutor's office said. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images L...

A former supervisory correctional officer ordered detainee abuse as well as allowed a white supremacist assault of two Black pretrial inmates. A former supervisory correctional officer in Oklahoma was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for “abusing his position of power and authority to … facilitate an attack carried out by white supremacists on a Black inmate,” according to the Department of Justice. Former officer Matthew Ware, 53, from the Kay County Detention Center, violated the civil rights of three pretrial detainees held at the facility, according to a federal jury. Ware allegedly ordered lower-ranking correctional officers in May 2017 to move two Black pretrial detainees to a cell row housing white supremacist inmates whom Ware knew posed a danger to the detainees, according to court documents and the evidence presented in the trial. Later that same day, Ware gave office rs an order to unlock the jail cells of the two Black detainees and those of the white supremacist ...