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MISSOULA, Mont. – A 24-year-old Hamilton man has been charged with aggravated assault after a woman was attacked with a claw hammer at a Missoula motel. Investigators say the woman suffered severe head injuries and broken bones in her jaw. Thomas Allen was jailed on $50,000 bail and was expected …

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Tennis great Jimmy Connors has been charged with a misdemeanor for an altercation last week before a basketball game between UC Santa Barbara and top-ranked North Carolina. Connors, an eight-time Grand Slam champion, was charged Wednesday in Santa Barbara Superior Court with disrupting campus activities and …

MOSCOW – The Russian navy says Russian and British ships have repelled a pirate attack off Somalia in the Gulf of Aden. The navy press service says the Russian frigate Neustrashimy and the British frigate Cumberland foiled pirates who fired automatic weapons toward a Danish ship and twice tried to …