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AP - Syrian forces launched a fresh assault on Homs on Saturday as the Red Cross pressed forward with efforts to deliver badly needed aid to thousands of people stranded in a besieged neighborhood despite warnings from regime troops of land mines and booby traps. More...

Washington (CNN) -- A federal airport screener has been charged with sexual assault after he allegedly assaulted a woman near his home in Manassas, Virginia, police said Tuesday. Police said Harold Glenn Rodman, 52, was wearing a uniform and displayed a badge at the time of the attack. Rodman is...

David Milgaard, who spent 23 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, was charged in Calgary on Wednesday night with assault, assault with a weapon and uttering threats. More...

Washington (CNN) -- Sexual assault incidents within the Veterans Affairs system are not being reported up the chain, a new government audit released Tuesday found. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, reported that of nearly 300 sexual assault incidents...

Calgary police have charged a man with sexually assaulting a six-week-old boy. Dale Kunath, 28, of High River faces one charge of assault and two counts of aggravated sexual assault, a police official said. The charges relate to an incident on June 21, 2010, when paramedics responded to a call...

Winnipeg police say they are looking for a young man responsible for a sexual assault against a seven-year-old girl. Police said in a news release the assault happened early Saturday morning when the girl was sleeping on the main floor in a home near the corner of Manitoba Avenue and Andrews...

A man accused of sneaking into a Surrey, B.C., girl's bedroom in the middle of the night has been found guilty of sexual assault. Kyle Wayne Berkson broke into the nine-year-old girl's home about 3:45 a.m. April 23, 2010. The girl testified that she woke up with Berkson on top of her and that...

The trial of a Fredericton Police officer charged with the assault of an off-duty soldier resumed Monday after a three-month adjournment and heard from an expert on restraint techniques. Const. Stephen Stafford walked into court holding his wife's hand Monday morning. Then both T. J. Burke...

A Winnipeg teen who took part in a horrific race-related beating that left a young man severely disabled will be sentenced as an adult and could face 14 years in prison, a Manitoba judge has ruled. Provincial court Judge Catherine Carlson ordered the rare penalty after a now-19-year-old man was...

An Island RCMP officer has been given a suspended sentence for assault. Cpl. Blair Ross, 46, pleaded guilty to assaulting a man last September. The court heard Ross is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Ross's lawyer said Friday that the assault is an incident of which his client...

An Edmonton police officer convicted of assault should be given an 18-month conditional sentence and have a criminal record, a provincial court judge was told Friday. In his sentencing arguments, Crown prosecutor Matthew Dalidowicz called the assault by Const. Haoyin Zheng an abuse of police...

A Shell Lake teacher has been found not criminally responsible due to mental illness in the sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy. Michelle Francoeur was charged following a complaint she had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a boy who was formerly a student at the school where she taught...

Dustin Paxton will be tried on 11 criminal charges related to assaults on four people, a judge in Calgary ruled on Wednesday. Paxton, wearing a white dress shirt, appeared nervous, rocking back and forth in the prisoner's box as his preliminary hearing wrapped up on Wednesday morning. He will...

Ottawa police closed an investigation Tuesday into an alleged daytime sexual assault on a 16-year-old girl in Barrhaven earlier this month. Police said details of the Jan. 18 attack could not be substantiated, and as a result the case had been dropped. Ottawa police said they were told the...

An Edmonton police officer was found guilty Friday of assaulting a man he had taken into custody. Const. Haoyin Zheng was found guilty of assault in relation to the arrrest of two suspects in a west Edmonton alley on Dec. 15, 2008. Zheng faced three charges but was found not guilty of assault...

A man found dead in Hermitage Park earlier this month was facing numerous sexual assault charges including some involving a minor. The body of Daniel Nickel, 26, was found near 137th Avenue and 20th Street on Jan. 13. CBC News has confirmed that Nickel, 26, was facing 11 charges at the time of...

Dustin Paxton was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of forcible confinement in August 2010. His preliminary inquiry runs this week, but the judge has banned members of the public from attending over fears of a "proliferation of internet information," his lawyer said A...

Belleville police Chief Cory McMullan was beaten by her husband and her arm was broken in an Aug. 6 assault at her home. The husband of Belleville, Ont., police Chief Cory McMullan was sentenced Friday to 30 days in jail for assaulting her. David McMullan, 53, pleaded guilty in October to one...

Two women were alone in this cell at the Kamloops jail when the Aug. 18 incident occurred. A woman involved in a widely reported incident in a Kamloops, B.C., jail cell witnessed by several Mounties and jail employees says she never consented to having sex with another woman. The plaintiff...

A Georgia man has been indicted on charges that he sexually assaulted a 20-year-old passenger while she was asleep during a flight from Dallas, Texas, to Atlanta, Georgia, federal authorities said Wednesday. The woman said she awoke during the September 28 Delta flight to discover Ranchhodbhai...