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NORTH LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – It began as a warning about loud music and ended with a 68-year-old woman being thrown to the ground and thrown into a pool. The entire thing was captured on video that quickly went viral on Twitter, and the incident sent a 16-year-old Margate teen to juvenile detention.

PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis. (AP) - An 81-year-old woman who fell into her bathtub was trapped for six days before a concerned neighbor and a police officer rescued her. The woman had no food in the room, said officer Peter Jung, who found her Wednesday morning. "She couldn't move in the right way to do anything other than get handfuls of water out of the bathtub faucet," Jung said. "She was just glad we were there." A newspaper carrier who lives in the neighborhood noticed papers piled up at the woman's home. The Kenosha News carrier, Karen Barker, left a note...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - City officials here have opened an investigation into why authorities apparently ignored numerous complaints about a full-scale drug den being operated out of the apartment of an elderly woman who suffered from dementia. Six alleged gang members took over the 84-year-old woman's apartment for months, even eating her free senior meals, police said after their arrests last week. The woman's second-floor apartment in the city's Mission District was littered with drugs and crack pipes. "This is one of the most egregious cases of elder abuse that I have ever seen," Trent Rhorer, executive director of the...

Villagers Riot in China, 50 Police Said Hurt Mon Apr 11, 6:11 AM ET By Benjamin Kang LimBEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of villagers rioted in eastern China, injuring dozens of police, after two of about 200 elderly women protesting over factory pollution died during efforts to disperse them, residents and officials said on Monday.   The rioting on Sunday in Huankantou village, Dongyang city, in the wealthy coastal province of Zhejiang coincided with violent anti-Japanese protests in China's capital, Beijing, and the southern cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen over the weekend. It was the latest in a string of outbreaks...

Article Published: Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 12:00:00 AM MST Mom weds younger man, disappearsFamily says woman is illBy Ann Schrader, Denver Post Staff WriterGOLDEN - Andy Labout's mother, Patsy Mae Labout, has been missing since May 12 after the 68-year-old Pleasant View woman abruptly wed a boarder more than 30 years her junior. Labout and his three siblings are worried about their mom, who suffers from dementia, short-term memory loss and pre-diabetes. "This is very painful for my family," Labout said at a news conference Wednesday at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. "I just want my mom back....