A New York City bus driver was stabbed to death by a passenger he had allowed to ride, despite the fact that the rider's MetroCard was invalid. However, the passenger began demanding a free transfer card as well, then became agitated and attacked the driver after the driver refused, reminding the passenger that he hadn't paid to begin with.

'Black Friday' took a violent turn as over-zealous shoppers trampled a Walmart worker to death in Long Island, NY at 5am. The 34-year-old Queens man died after 'hundreds' of people broke down the doors and flooded the store.

An 8-year-old boy who confessed to shooting to death his father and a man renting a room from his father in Arizona earlier this month, had told authorities he kept a log recording the instances his father and stepmother hit him. According to a search affidavit from a St. Johns, Ariz. Police officer, the boy told Child Protective Services agents that 1,000 spankings was his threshold.

Two men shot and killed each other at a crowded Toys "R" Us store in Palm Desert, Calif. , adding to the nationwide violence that marred the busiest shopping day of the year, known as "Black Friday. "Alejandro Moreno, 39, of Desert Hot Springs, and Juan Meza, 28, of Cathedral City, were found dead at around 11:30 a. m. outside the store.

A Thai claimed Tuesday it was his trawler that was mistakenly identified as a pirate mother vessel and destroyed by an Indian warship off Somalia's coast last week. Fourteen sailors of the Ekawat Nava 5 remain missing after the Indian frigate INS Tabar fired at the ship that had just been boarded by Somali pirates, according to Wicharn Sirichaiekawat, owner of the trawler.