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GLOUCESTER COUNTY, N.J. (CBS) — Police are investigating after two people were injured in a massive brawl and stabbing outside of a Chuck E. Cheese in Gloucester County on Sunday night. The Deptford Police Department says officers were dispatched shortly after 6 p.m. to the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant along the 1500 block of Almonesson Road. When officers arrived people were actively fighting in front of and inside the restaurant, according to police. Police say 15 to 20 people were involved in the fight. Officials say an unidentified female was found with a minor stab wound to her hip, and...

Harry Reid endorsed Chuck Schumer to succeed him as Senate minority leader after he retires in 2016. [Snip] Reid predicted Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in Senate leadership, would win the post without opposition. He also suggested any competition — specifically Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, with whom he spoke on the phone with Friday morning — should stand down. Reid called Schumer "extremely smart" in the interview, adding that he would bring a "different style" to Senate leadership compared with Reid's soft-spoken nature.

The ghost of Howard Dean haunts the pundit class. As soon as a candidate of either party spikes up in the polls, he is compared with Dean, who had a spectacular boomlet in the second half of 2003 only to deflate as soon as people began to vote in early 2004. After many false prophecies, Dean circa 2008 has finally arrived. He is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Not because he will inevitably blow himself up in Iowa. But because, like Dean, his nomination would represent an act of suicide by his party. Like Dean, Huckabee is an under-vetted former...

Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, said the "cop killer" video game, called "25 to Life," had hit an "all-time low" and discouraged the sale and distribution of the title, due out this summer. "25 to Life' makes 'Grand Theft Auto' look like 'Romper Room" Schumer said on Monday in comments e-mailed by a spokeswoman. The blockbuster video game series "Grand Theft Auto" from Take-Two Interactive is frequently criticized for its violence... First of all, if you want people to take you seriously, you need something more effective than a kids show that originally aired in 1953 like...