An HIV-positive ex-convict, who admitted to attempting to kill several police officers and a psychiatric hospital employee by biting them or spitting blood in their faces, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. Robert Murray, 33, was not in court when state Supreme Court Justice William A. Wetzel imposed the sentence. Murray says the Hannibal Lecter-type restraints the judge ordered him to wear were "humiliating," refusing to wear them to court.

A topless dancer in San Diego pulls out a knife and stabs a man after he refuses a lap dance. Police say Lawanda Dixon, 24, was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon after attacking 33-year-old Melik Jordan at the Dream Girls Cabaret early Wednesday.

A topless dancer in San Diego pulls out a knife and stabs a man after he refuses a lap dance. Police say Lawanda Dixon, 24, was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon after attacking 33-year-old Melik Jordan at the Dream Girls Cabaret early Wednesday.

A Japanese doctor has come under fire for his unique way of calming a patient down. While in surgery, an elderly female patient at a hospital in central Japan was administered local anasthesia early last month, and began jerking around on the operation table, yelling at the doctor to stop.

A Japanese doctor has come under fire for his unique way of calming a patient down. While in surgery, an elderly female patient at a hospital in central Japan was administered local anasthesia early last month, and began jerking around on the operation table, yelling at the doctor to stop.