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A fifth arrest has been made in connection with employees participating in 'fight club'-style fights at Corpus Christi State School. Guadalupe Delarosa Jr., 21, was arrested Tuesday in Virginia. A warrant was issued March 12 for Delarosa and five others after a cell phone was turned over to authorities showing employees at the school encouraging and video taping residents with mental disabilities punching, wrestling and choking each other. Police said the incidents may have gone on for as long as a year. Four of the employees were arrested earlier this month and police are still searching for a sixth person....

Staff at a high school in the US state of Texas had students settle their differences by fighting inside a steel cage, a local newspaper has reported. The Dallas Morning News says it has obtained a school board report that says two "cage fights" took place at South Oak Cliff High between 2003-2005. The 2008 report says the principal and other employees knew of the practice. No criminal charges were ever filed, and the principal at the time has denied any fights took place. Donald Moten, who retired as principal last year, told the Morning News: "That's barbaric... It never...

Angela Williamson said she can't forget the image of her son's swollen hand after he participated in a cage fight at South Oak Cliff High School. She said her son told her that students stood around clapping and screaming while watching the fight, as if they were in an arena. Williamson took her son out of South Oak Cliff shortly after that day in 2004 and moved to Cedar Hill. "I said enough is enough, and we just left," she said. "This was the norm. My son said this is what they do – let them fight in 'the cage.'...

CORPUS CHRISTI — The FBI announced Friday it has opened an investigation into whether civil rights violations have occurred at the Corpus Christi State School, where several employees are accused of staging fight club-style brawls between residents with mental disabilities. The news came a day after arrest warrants were issued for six current and former state school workers accused of encouraging, filming and narrating the fights. They all face charges of injury to a disabled person. Police said the fights were recorded on a cell phone camera that was found at a local clothing store and turned over to an...

AUSTIN – Profoundly disabled residents at the Corpus Christi State School have been forced into "fight club"-style battles by the employees hired to care for them, police alleged Tuesday. Corpus Christi Police Capt. Tim Wilson said vivid video footage captured on cellphone cameras shows staffers goading young male state school residents into physical altercations, then shoving them at each other to ensure that fights ensued. The brawls are captured on repeated videos filmed during 2007 and 2008 – with one that appears to have been taken last month. Wilson said they show “staged events” where mentally and physically disabled residents...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - Seven employees at a state-run home for the mentally disabled have been suspended for allegedly staging a "fight club" among residents. Corpus Christi Police Captain Tim Wilson says the fight clubs were uncovered when someone gave an off-duty police officer a cell phone containing videos of fights at the Corpus Christi State School. Wilson says the videos show mentally disabled adult clients punching, shoving, and striking each other while the employees watch.

(Allied Drive bout ends with brawl, stabbing - Madison, WI) Martel Erving won the fight with a knockout last Saturday night on Allied Drive, but never collected the $200 purse and got badly cut in his efforts to do so. Erving, 23, of Chicago, was in Madison with his brother, Richard, 20, to participate in bare-knuckled boxing matches held in the basement of an Allied Drive apartment building several times a week, say those who talked to police about the events. The rules are simple, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday. Two fighters each put down $100, then square...

Fight Club By Salena Zito TRIBUNE-REVIEW The first rule of the Fight Club is to never talk about the Fight Club. It's the perfect explanation for the peculiar behavior of the Democratic Party. Democrats are creating their own version of "Project Mayhem" -- with Republicans and George Bush as the target. It seems every time you turn around, the Democrat talking heads are throwing punches in the air. But devoid of any message, they are all punch and no policy. And they don't care. Need proof? Read the transcript of DNC boss Howard Dean's appearance on "Meet the Press" last...

I saw Chuck Palahniuk, the author of HAUNTED, on CBS's Craig Ferguson show last night. (I'd TIVOed it from the previous Friday.) During his interview, the giggling Palahniuk confessed that a waiter in a London five star restaurant had boasted to him of having masturbated into Mrs. Margaret Thatcher's food on five separate occasions. Given that there is something called AIDS, I hope this waiter gets tracked down and charged with attempted murder. Next time I go to London--IF I go to London--I'll pack my own food.

NEW YORK (AP) - Ron Artest, Jermaine O'Neal and Stephen Jackson of Indiana and Ben Wallace of Detroit were suspended indefinitely by the NBA on Saturday for taking part in one of the ugliest brawls in U.S. sports history, a fight with fans that commissioner David Stern called "shocking, repulsive and inexcusable." League officials were examining video tapes of Friday night's melee and interviewing witnesses. The NBA issued a statement saying it was reviewing rules and security procedures "so that fans can continue to attend our games unthreatened by events such as the ones that occurred last night." Artest, O'Neal...

Internet chatroom users can be so aggressive that a sociologist studying them has labelled some online communities "electronic fight clubs". According to the new research, even the most laid-back people can erupt into furious rants when debating online, and it's all part of an effort to distinguish themselves from the next user. Some even take on multiple personalities in a bid to outsmart their online acquaintances, while others adopt menacing usernames. Gordon Fletcher, an information systems lecturer at Salford University, revealed his findings to the British Sociological Association meeting this week. His paper, entitled "Fight Club: culture, conflict and everyday...

American rock star Meat Loaf was taken to hospital in London after collapsing during a concert, his record company said Tuesday. The 56-year-old singer "collapsed from exhaustion due to a prolonged viral infection. It is not life-threatening," a company spokesman said. Meat Loaf, famed for his mega-hit "Bat Out Of Hell," collapsed in the middle of Monday night's concert at London's Wembley Arena, tried to perform another song but on advice from paramedics was taken to the nearest hospital. His sell-out concert Tuesday night was canceled on doctors' orders. "Meat Loaf will be re-evaluated by doctors today and further information...

The guy wandering around outside the tiki bar on the north edge of town can't even pay for a clue, he's so lost. "Does anybody know the area?" he asks. Lucky for him, he runs into Chuck Palahniuk and asks for directions. Nobody knows the area better than Palahniuk, author of the cult classic "Fight Club." And Palahniuk has written a new book to prove it. "Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon" is stuffed with juxtapositions and secrets. You can crack open the book to Chamber of Commerce sound bites, turn a page or two and find detailed...

A battery-operated shaver that suddenly vibrated in a bag belonging to a Japanese tourist forced a security alert at a Malaysian airport. Police dispatched a bomb disposal unit and a sniffer dog to the Kota Kinabalu airport in eastern Sabah state on Thursday after a cargo handler felt a vibration while unloading the bag, the New Straits Times said. The man, who was in transit en route to Narita, was escorted to the bag and he immediately opened it to show the shaver and several packs of black pepper inside, the daily said.