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A Rohnert Park man was arrested after tearing apart a Starbucks and assaulting a police officer in Santa Rosa Saturday morning. Officers were called to the Starbucks near the intersection of Stony Point Road and Bellevue Ranch around 7:45 a.m., according to police. Police learned that a man had entered the store a few hours earlier and had been "exhibiting bizarre behavior" before locking himself in the restroom and pounding on the walls and door. At one point, the man allegedly tried to pull a Starbucks employee into the restroom with him. Police said an alert customer and workers evacuated...

Man dies following arrest By Juliette Rule Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE – A local man died Wednesday afternoon, a week after local police arrested him using a restraint called a body wrap. Mike Dick said he knows little about the circumstances surrounding his younger brother’s arrest, but he added that Bob Dick, 45, hadn’t been coping well with life’s stresses. The family decided to disconnect Bob Dick from life support earlier this week. He died about 4 p.m. Wednesday. Police say Bob Dick ran into traffic about 9 p.m. on May 13, waving a gun, yelling and frightening...

A substitute teacher picked up a broom and went berserk in a first-grade Washington Heights classroom yesterday-whacking children in a wild melee that sent 20 kids to the hospital bloody and bruised, cops said. Mom Beatrice Balbuena comforts Angel Rodriguez, 7, who holds bruise on his head he received ... Danilo Nunez, 59, freaked out after he waded into the middle of a crayon-tossing fight between pupils in his class in Room 101 at Public School 4 on W. 160th St. at Amsterdam Ave., police said. The children screamed for help as Nunez swung the broom, pummeled them with his...