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A 61-year-old straphanger was stabbed in the head by a screwdriver-wielding maniac in a random attack onboard a Manhattan subway Thursday night, police and law enforcement sources said. The man was randomly stabbed with the tool twice – in the head and face – while seated on a southbound 1 train around 9:40 p.m. at the 59th Street-Columbus Circle subway station, authorities said. The victim was taken to Mount Sinai West and is in stable condition.

Avi Assaf, who was wounded when a terrorist opened fire in a market in Petah Tikva Thursday afternoon, described to Arutz Sheva how he chased and subdued the terrorist despite his injuries. Six people were wounded in the terrorist attack. "I heard shots and people shouting 'terrorist! terrorist!' The terrorist ran and I chased him for 2-3 blocks with four other people," said Assaf, who is currently being treated at Belinson Hospital in Petah Tikvah. The terrorist entered a store for sewing machines, and Assaf followed him. "He took two screwdrivers and tried to stab me. I grabbed a chair...

The father of the 19-year-old soldier who was stabbed and lightly wounded by an Arab terrorist in Tel Aviv on Monday evening later reenacted the moments of horror. "I'm still stressed from what I saw. I drove home and I saw him (my son) holding his head, shouting 'dad, dad, a terrorist stabbed me, call an ambulance,'" recalled the father. "Immediately I went up on the sidewalk, I stopped the motorcycle, brought him up to the house and I said, 'I'll stop the bleeding.' He was pumping blood." The father told Maariv that he brought his son inside the house...

An underground garage below Lincoln Center was the unlikely scene of a stabbing early Thursday morning, officials said. A 28-year-old man was stabbed twice in the head with a screwdriver by his male partner near 132 W. 65th St. outside the home of the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet and the New York Philharmonic following the 5:30 a.m. stabbing, an FDNY spokesman said.

CHILLICOTHE — You know the tale about the tortoise and the hare? In beating the odds, that’s nothing compared to a plucky snapping turtle in Chillicothe. The critter was brutally stabbed through its shell and body, then survived for days — teeming with blood and maggots — before lumbering into a Chillicothe neighborhood Saturday. There, Paul and Diane Tuttle spotted the turtle a yellow screwdriver sticking out of its green shell, yet persistently plodding upon the pavement. Who would do such a cruel thing to an animal? Paul Tuttle, an 18-year Peoria police officer, says the stabbing was no accident...

Seven people, including a family of five with young children, were lightly wounded in the West Bank Friday afternoon when a Palestinian man hurled acid into their car, before being shot and seriously wounded. The attack occurred near a checkpoint between the Gush Etzion settlement of Beitar Illit, where the family is from, and the Palestinian village of Husan, southwest of Jerusalem. Palestinian news agency Ma’an identified the attacker as Jamal Abd al-Majid Ghayatha, 45, from the West Bank village of Nahalin. Media networks affiliated with Hamas said the man was a former Palestinian prisoner in Israel jail, Israel Radio...

<p>A man is in critical condition Saturday after being shot by a homeowner who says he opened fire in self-defense after the man pulled out a screwdriver during a fight.</p> <p>Neither the homeowner nor the man have been identified by authorities.</p>

A man accused of chasing two people with a screwdriver at a Kissimmee bus stop is behind bars today, facing several felony charges. Osceola County Sheriff's Office records show that Raushamon L. Brown, 40, and an unidentified woman on Monday approached the two victims at the bus stop in front of the Rodeway Inn, in the 4500 block of W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, shortly before 7:30 p.m. The victims told deputies that Brown demanded money from them. When the victims refused and started walking away from him, Brown chased and threatened them with a screwdriver. Reports show the woman...

Gun Beats Screwdriver in LR A Little Rock man is recovering after being shot in the arm. Police say it happened around 1:30 Saturday afternoon along the 1900 block of West 29th street. They say two 18-year-olds were trying to jump a third man with a screwdriver. Only police say the third man was armed with a gun. All three are in custody but so far no one has been charged. Lt. Terry Hastings with the Little Rock police department says if you're going to jump a man with a screwdriver, make sure he doesn't have a gun.

Matt Smith, the actor playing the new Doctor, was stopped at Heathrow airport because he was carrying a sonic screwdriver. Officials took the 'Doctor Who' gadget for a weapon when a security scanner revealed what was in Smith's luggage, according to The Sun. ... "But going through the X-ray scanner, it probably looks like a weapon, albeit something you'd see in ‘Star Wars.’

A Houston police officer shot and killed a suspected burglar who attacked him and his police dog with a screwdriver, authorities said. The officer, identified by HPD as G. Smith, was responding to a burglary call at an apartment in the 7100 block of Renwick about 4:20 p.m. Smith has been with the department 11 years and is assigned to the canine unit, according to HPD spokeswoman Jodi Silva. Residents in the apartment reported the burglary and when a patrol officer arrived the burglar was still inside, officials said. Smith called for a supervisor and a canine unit. The burglar...

BOSTON (AP) — A woman on a trans-Atlantic flight diverted to Boston for security concerns passed several notes to crew members, urinated on the cabin floor and made comments the crew believed were references to al-Qaida and the Sept. 11 attacks, according to an affidavit filed Thursday. Catherine C. Mayo, 59, of Braintree, Vt., was to appear in federal court later Thursday on a charge of interfering with a flight crew after disrupting United 923 as it flew from London to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. The flight, with 182 passengers and 12 crew members, landed safely with the escort of...

(CBS4) BOSTON Criminal charges could be filed Thursday against a Vermont woman who caused a disturbance aboard a London-to-Virginia jet that was diverted to Logan Airport. 59-year-old Catherine Mayo is being held by federal authorities in Boston. Investigators say she was a claustrophobic passenger who became upset and interfered with the flight crew on United Airlines flight 923 Wednesday morning. The pilot declared an in-flight emergency and landed the plane at Logan. The Boeing 767 was escorted by two F-15 jets based out of Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod. Passengers say Mayo paced the aisles and peppered...

You're unlikely to find CDs by groups like Skrewdriver and Brutal Attack sold alongside the latest hits from Rihanna and the Jonas Brothers at your local retailer. But the white-power punk bands' ballads are just a click away online.

BOYNTON BEACH — Carol Anne Burger killed her former lover by stabbing her 222 times with a Phillips-head screwdriver and then took pains to hide her crime, police said Wednesday. Jessica Kalish, who shared a house with Burger despite breaking up with her more than a year ago, was found last Thursday stuffed in the backseat of her gun-metal BMW sedan, abandoned behind a medical office at 2300 S. Congress Avenue. Her blood was splashed around the rear end and undercarriage of the car, as if her killer had tried to load her into the trunk. The driver-side window was...

A freelance election reporter for the Huffington Post shot herself after stabbing her lesbian lover 222 times with a screwdriver and stuffing the body in the back seat of the victim's BMW, authorities say. Carol Anne Burger, 57, an award-winning photojournalist and regular contributor to the online website, reported on the election from their home in Florida. She had experienced an upsetting break up with software executive Jessica Kalish, 56, a woman whom she had married in Massachusetts, the Palm Beach Post reported. The partners were planning to divide their assets, including the home they still shared, after splitting last...

email page print page popular pages Police: Ex-lover stabbed Boynton Beach executive 200 times with screwdriver Click-2-Listen By MICHAEL LaFORGIA Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 29, 2008 BOYNTON BEACH — A woman who lived with her ex-partner on the city's south side stabbed her former lover more than 200 times with a Phillips-head screwdriver and then tried to conceal the killing, police said. After committing the crime, Carol Anne Burger, 57, a writer who friends described as engaged and eager to move on with life, reported her old flame missing and then, a day later, shot herself to...

BOYNTON BEACH — A woman who lived with her ex-partner on the city's south side stabbed her former lover more than 200 times with a Phillips-head screwdriver and then tried to conceal the killing, police said. After committing the crime, Carol Anne Burger, 57, a writer who friends described as engaged and eager to move on with life, reported her old flame missing and then, a day later, shot herself to death in her backyard, police said.

Just heard on the radio. In essence, a robber used a screwdriver to hold up a restaurant. He rode away on a bicycle. Unfortunately he fell off the bicycle and impaled himself on the screwdriver - and died.

Armed only with a screwdriver, a 95-year-old woman in a wheel chair kept a burglar from breaking into her home by repeatedly stabbing his hand. It was 3 a.m. when a 95-year-old Bartlesville woman heard somebody break the glass on her front door and push the door open. When a hand came inside and tried to unlock the door, she stabbed it. Again and again. She stabbed that hand many times over the next hour, say Bartlesville Police. The woman would not leave the door for fear the man would break in while she was calling for help. Eventually, the...