Assault

BEIJING - A fight between a bus driver and a passenger who missed her stop caused the bus to plunge off a high bridge into China’s Yangtze River, police said Friday. All 15 people onboard are presumed dead. (AP)

A Port Alberni, B.C. mother is in court this month to face charges of vigilantism after she tackled and hog-tied a 28-year-old family friend she alleged was trying to lure her 13-year-old daughter into sex. (National Post)

LONDON - Sarah's haunted face stares out under a red Islamic head-dress in her wedding photo. Beside her, guests eat cake while celebrating the marriage, conducted by the local mosque's imam at a terraced house in the Home Counties. (Daily Mail)

Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is unconscious in hospital suffering from suspected poisoning, his spokeswoman has said. The anti-corruption campaigner fell ill during a flight and the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, Kira Yarmysh said, adding that they suspected something had been mixed into his tea. (BBC)

BRAMPTON - A Peel Regional Police sergeant is facing assault and weapons charges following a seven-month internal investigation into on-duty incidents. (Brampton Guardian)

LETHBRIDGE - An assault charge has been laid against one charged one man and are pending against another after a referee and coach at a youth hockey tournament in Lethbridge were attacked on the ice. (Calgary Herald)

EDMONTON - In a series of events police are describing as a crime spree, the suspect allegedly fled the scene of the stabbing, robbed a nearby store, assaulted a shop employee and stole a getaway car before getting into a scuffle with police in west Edmonton. (CBC News)

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Police provide update to LRT stabbing, crime spree

Each blow and kick seems harder than the one previous. It’s difficult to watch because you can actually feel the pain the guy at the end of this assault must have felt. It’s an egregious physical attack and robbery on a man on Yonge Street that you won’t find in the crime statistics. (Toronto Sun)

Officials at St. Michael’s College School took a full day to report a video showing an alleged graphic sexual assault on a student to police, according to a statement and timeline released by the school. (Toronto Star)

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Toronto private school expels eight teens after incidents, alleged sex assault

When Bill Owens got his pictures of the violence at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival published in Rolling Stone, he would not let his name appear on the photo credit. Owens had been threatened and he feared retribution from the same Hells Angels he’d photographed swinging pool cues in front of the concert stage on Dec. 6, 1969. (San Francisco Chronicle)