FLORIDA– A 3 year old boy was accidentally shocked Monday after a deputy tried using his taser on a wanted man who was in the vehicle with the boy.  It all happened in the middle of the day with lots of shoppers looking on in downtown Deland.  A Volusia County deputy pulled over a vehicle because the window tint looked too dark. In the car he found Sylvester Hill, a wanted man. When the deputy realized Hill was wanted on an outstanding warrant for allegedly beating up a pregnant woman, the deputy tried to arrest Hill.  The deputy says Hill got out of the vehicle halfway through the window and had the deputy pinned against the car through the window in a head lock. The deputy got out his taser and tried to shock Hill. That’s when the deputy says Hill grabbed the taser and, as they fought with it, it went off. Hill fell to the ground, then took off running. The incident caused most of downtown Deland, including some schools, to be put on lockdown for several hours. Deputies and Deland police caught up with Hill a few hours later hiding in a home nearby. The boy was checked out at the scene, and was sent home with his mom, who was driving the vehicle.(FOXNews)

A Canadian man is facing several charges after beating his girlfriend for not cooking his steak properly. The 26-year-old man, who was not identified, punched his girlfriend, knocked her to the ground and then hit her with a metal pole on the thigh for not cooking his steak to the proper level of tenderness, Canoe News reports. He then threw her purse outside in the rain on the front lawn on his Barrie, Ontario home. When police arrived, he had fled the scene but was located the next day parked nearby. He was taken into custody and charged with assault, assault with a weapon and criminal mischief under $5,000. It was unclear if the argument erupted because the steak was overcooked or under cooked.(APP)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Certified nursing assistant Brenda Chaney was on duty in an Indiana nursing home one day when she discovered a patient lying on the floor, unable to stand. But Chaney couldn’t help the woman up. She had to search for a white aide because the woman had left instructions that she did not want any black caregivers. And the nursing home insisted it was legally bound to honor the request. The episode, which led to a recent federal court hearing that Chaney’s civil rights had been violated, has brought to light a little known consequence of the patients’ rights movement that swept the nation’s health care system over the last two decades. Elderly patients, who won more legal control over their quality of life in nursing homes, sometimes want to dictate the race of those who care for them. And some nursing homes enforce those preferences in their staff policies.

Caroline Giuliani, daughter of former New York Mayor Rudy,  has been sentenced to do a day’s community service for shoplifting from a store in the city. The 21-year-old Harvard student escaped a prison sentence after a judge agreed with a prosecutor’s offer to resolve the case. Miss Giuliani was accused of stealing $100 worth of make-up on August 4 from a Sephora store on Manhattan’s swanky Lexington Avenue.  The case against her will be closed if she completes the volunteer work and doesn’t have any more brushes with the law for six months. ‘Stay out trouble and avoid re-arrest,’ Judge Jennifer Schecter told Miss Giuliani in court this morning. Miss Giuliani could have received a year behind bars if convicted of ‘petty larceny’ as a first-time offender. She did not speak in court and had no comment for reporters as she and her mother Donna left the building. We are not going to have a comment for the press,’ her lawyer, Isabelle Kirshner told The New York Daily News. A film and theatre graduate, Miss Giuliani is likely to perform the community service in New York and is due back in court on November 4 to show she has completed it. The Manhattan district attorney’s office said the resolution of her case was standard policy for first-time, low-value shoplifting arrests. Miss Giuliani, the youngest of the former Mayor’s two children with his second wife Donna Hanover, was seen on a security video pocketing the make-up.(MailOnline)

Michael Douglas went on Letterman Tuesday and talked about the recent news that he has throat cancer. He has just completed his first of eight weeks of radiation and chemotherapy, and appeared a little thinner than usual, with his suit slightly oversize. With the coming weeks of treatment, he said, his voice may change and it could become impossible to swallow solid food. But he was upbeat, saying that despite his throat cancer being Stage 4, it has not spread down below his throat. Asked by Letterman what the percentages were, Douglas said he has an 80% chance of recovery, with some hospitals even more optimistic. When Letterman wondered if there was anything he could do, Douglas said, ‘Aw, give me a hug!’ And the two men embraced. (HuffPost)