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PATERSON, NJ (CBSNewYork) – They’ve got their men. Police say they’ve arrested the trio caught on tape attacking two people, including chopping at one victim with a machete. The Paterson police turned to social media in their hunt for the attackers, posting the stunning video of the attack on their Facebook page. The incident took place on Sept. 10 at the U.S. Chicken restaurant at 194 Straight Street. Police say the “vicious assault” began just before 4 a.m. There were two attacks, said Capt. Heriberto Rodriguez of the Paterson police department. “Both attacks were unprovoked, as far as we could...

SIERRA VISTA — Four years before Pearl Harbor was attacked, a local man sailed on a U.S. Navy ship that was bombed and sunk by Imperial Japanese warplanes. The incident happened on Dec. 13, 1937, as the USS Panay was evacuating U.S. embassy personnel from Nanking, China’s capital of that era. It was a city under siege whose downfall became the infamous Rape of Nanking. The Panay was a gunboat that belonged to the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, whose 1930s peacetime mission included protection of American lives and property from pirates along the lawless Yangtze River, under a treaty with the...