The childlike joy of America's Free Comic Book Day became a violent drama of assault and police firing taser guns when two costumed characters were attacked by a 300-pound drunken monster outside a comics shop in Portland, Maine, on Saturday.
Maine resident Cassandra Grant, 22, faces charges of second-degree assault and risk of injury to a minor after a round of Modern Warfare grew into a nine-month relationship with a 15-year-old Connecticut boy.
A 50-year-old man surrendered to police in Maine this morning, following a nine-hour standoff during which he threatened to blow up a bus using a fake detonator crafted out of a spiral notebook, a video game controller, and duct tape.
