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Brian Sicknick died from injuries sustained in the Jan. 6 riot.

Police are investigating after a Quinnipiac University student allegedly assaulted his roommate in his sleep early Friday morning, according to Hamden police. Officials said the incident happened at approximately 3:10 a.m. on 275 Mount Carmel Ave. Officers with the Hamden Police Department and Quinnipiac Public Safety responded to a report of a possible fight between two roommates. When police arrived,…

A 21-year-old man from Florida has been arrested on an assault charge for allegedly slashing a 60-year-old woman across the forehead and eyes in an unprovoked attack in the Bronx last week, the NYPD said Sunday. The woman was walking on the sidewalk on East Tremont Avenue around 4:30 p.m. Thursday when the stranger came up from behind and tapped…

The trio proceeded to kick the woman repeatedly; one bit her on the forehead, breaking the skin and leaving her with a bite mark on her face that required stitches — but her emotional wounds are still raw

A 28-year-old Brooklyn man has been arrested in the brutal September beating of a 79-year-old man who died more than a month after the attack, officials say. James Woods was cuffed on an assault charge Wednesday in the beating of Angel Diaz, who was attacked outside his own apartment on Hoyt Street Sept. 13. Video surveillance showed Diaz trying to…

A reputed Mafia figure pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he conspired to assault the now-husband of former “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Dina Manzo. John Perna, 43, of Cedar Grove, admitted planning and carrying out the July 2015 attack during a videoconference in federal court. Perna and Dina Manzo’s ex-husband Thomas Manzo were charged with the assault earlier this…

Authorities are “dramatically increasing” patrols and offering a $5,000 reward for information about the serial attacker in Waltham, the city’s police chief said Tuesday. “There is definitely a fear factor in our city right now. We’ve never experienced anything like this,” said Detective Sgt. Steve McCarthy, who has been leading the investigation into at least 10 unprovoked attacks since Nov….

Police are investigating after two people were taken to the hospital following an assault in Enfield. The incident happened in the area of the Red Roof Inn and Motel 6 on Hazard Avenue, officials said. Two people were transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to police. Police said there is no threat to the public at…

Police are looking for a man who they believe shot a woman in Waterbury on Oct. 24. The shooting happened at approximately 1:05 a.m. in the area of 327 Willow St. Officials are looking for 28-year-old Yadeil Figueroa after he allegedly shot a 25-year-old woman in the left hip area. Figueroa and the woman allegedly got into an argument outside…

Police are looking for a cigarette-smoking man they say brutally attacked 82- and 73-year-old grandparents, along with their 30-year-old grandson, after an argument on a Brooklyn subway platform, authorities say. The grandparents and their grandson were on the southbound platform of the Clinton-Washington A/C subway station in the Clinton Hill area around 1:30 p.m. Monday when the stranger approached...

A 20-year-old Staten Island man has been arrested on assault charges for allegedly throwing hot coffee onto an MTA bus driver’s face when he was asked to put on a face covering in accordance with COVID rules, officials said. Alexander Lopez allegedly refused to put on a mask when the driver asked him to put on a mask when...

Police are looking for a man who attacked a woman and threatened to rape her Monday morning in Downtown Boston. The victim was walking at Boston Public Garden when a man approached her, putting his hand over her mouth and trying to remove her clothes while making sexually explicit threats, according to police in Boston. The woman broke free from…

Police are looking for a stranger they say sneaked up behind a 46-year-old woman as she walked on a Brooklyn street, picked her up and slammed her to the sidewalk, where video shows he pummeled her repeatedly, authorities say. The victim suffered severe head and body trauma in the 6 a.m. Tuesday attack near Division Avenue and Rodney Street, according…

Troopers are investigating after three people were assaulted in front of a home on Rogers Lake Trail in Old Lyme. The incident occurred at approximately 8:15 p.m., police said. Police said they found a woman who was stabbed in the abdomen and a man who was unconscious with a head injury. Police said the head injury was from being hit…

A white couple face criminal charges after one of them was captured on video pulling a handgun on a Black woman and her daughters in a restaurant parking lot in Michigan

A 31-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an apparently random attack on a 92-year-old woman in Manhattan four days ago, authorities say. The suspect, Rashid Brimmage of the Bronx, was charged with assault shortly after he was taken into custody Tuesday. Police believe he is the person seen on disturbing video shoving the 92-year-old woman named Geraldine to…

Prosecutors say two Buffalo police officers have been charged with assault after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old protester

Police provided new details into the arrest of murder suspect Peter Manfredonia in Maryland

A lawsuit accuses four white suburban St. Louis police officers of brutalizing a 68-year-old black woman and her adult son after wrongly accusing them of stealing a television