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Two Louisiana lawmakers got into a fistfight at a Baton Rouge bar, evidently over a disputed bill in the Legislature, Greg Hilburn with the USA Today Network reports. State Rep. Stuart Bishop, R-Lafayette, and Sen. Norby Chabert, R-Houma, were involved in a dispute on the House floor Tuesday (May 15) and squared off later that night at the River Room on Laurel Street. Bishop said Chabert "punched me several times" but he didn't throw any punches back. Chabert said he "loved Stuart like a brother" and regretted the incident. Police were called to the bar, but Bishop and Chabert had...

Sky sources say Steven Woolfe has suspected bleeding on the brain after being punched in the face by a fellow MEP. ...-A party spokesman said Mr Woolfe was "taken suddenly ill" in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg on Thursday morning.

In a fistfight between the leader of the free world and the leader of the not-so-free world, who would win? Let’s examine both President Barack Obama and President Vladimir Putin’s exercise routines, sheer manliness, athletic prowess, celebrity friends, alcohol consumption and friendliness toward animals to determine who would win.

A lab report released Thursday showed that Trayvon Martin was shot from close range, probably with the gun pressed against his chest. The new information may bolster George Zimmerman's argument that the two men were locked in combat, and Zimmerman shot the unarmed teenager to protect his own life. How easy is it to kill a man in a fistfight? It happens more than twice a day, on average. Fists and feet were responsible for 745 murders in 2010, or 5.7 percent of all murders that year, according to FBI statistics. (The data on this have been remarkably stable in...

At first blush, this might seem like a gratuitous post. A post designed to lure in readers with its over the top rhetoric and a forced analysis of a ridiculous and fictitious scenario. A sensationalizing of the campaign battle by literally determining who could win a knock down, drag 'em out fight. And you'd be right. (We need readers) But it's also a response to a recent poll conducted by the Yahoo!/Esquire Langer group in which, for some reason they decided to ask likely voters which of the two candidates would win in a fistfight. It wasn't even a close...

Political analysts hurl insults - and punches - in a dispute over the credibility of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Video

Flights are routinely canceled because of weather delays or mechanical problems, but passengers trying to fly from Rochester, N.Y., to Atlanta Thursday found their trip canceled for another reason: the flight attendants reportedly got into a fistfight. Passengers told local news channel YNN Rochester that the flight, a Delta Connection flight from Rochester, N.Y., to Atlanta, was canceled after the two female flight attendants started fighting. "Apparently they got into a fistfight on the plane," passenger Steve Mazur told local news YNN. "The pilot decided to kick everyone off the plane." "They told us we had to get off the...

 Inside Today's N. Korea: Fistfight between Cops and a Shuttle DriverLate August this year on a road between Pyongyang and Sariwon [2006-10-19 14:09 ]

Sibling rivalry sunk to a new low for two sisters from Wood Dale, Illinois. Pamela Majdan, 23, and Joyce Majdan, 31, exchanged blows over who caught the most pieces of Twizzlers during a Memorial Day parade. According to Wood Dale Deputy Police Chief Greg Vesta, the sisters and other family members were gathered in front of their apartment complex observing the parade when an argument broke out between the two women over who had the most candy from the collection that parade organizers were tossing into the crowd. One sister accused the other of having caught more Twizzlers, Vesta said,...

Police are investigating a fight at a Detroit music venue involving the lead singers of the White Stripes and Von Bondies.The fight between Jack White of the White Stripes and Jason Stollsteimer of the Von Bondies broke out Saturday night at the Majestic Theatre Center, police said. Stollsteimer, 25, told police that White punched him seven times in the face. Police said Stollsteimer's right eye was bruised and swollen, and he was bleeding from his nose. He was treated and released from a Detroit hospital. Prosecutor Marcus Connor said his office is awaiting results of the police investigation before deciding...

Reality TV The President of the Union of Italian Muslims, Mr Abel Smith, and Italian Ministry of Defence consultant Carlo Pelanda slug it out during a talk-show on the relationship between the West and the Muslim world. The heated debate, at the Teleserissima regional television studios, in Padua, northern Italy, on Saturday, ended in a fist-fight. -- AP,TG5