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Jenn jenna: singer chris brown is in court today after a fight at a washington, d.c. hotel. he allegedly punched another man in the face after fans tried to take pictures of him. brown is still on probation for the 2009 beating of his then girl friend, singer rihanna. jon: a fair ride operator is in court today on assault charges. police claim he intentionally tampered with the vortex ride at the north carolina state fair. a move that ended up injuring five people, three of them critically. jonathan is live in atlanta with details. what's going on here? >> this ride operator faces three crimin...

And outrage in europe. ♪ bill: the operator of a ride at a fair is i fizzing, charges afr writers were injured. they were operating the vortex ride when it suddenly turned back dropping riders 20 feet to the ground. on thion the story live out of atlanta. what are the charges indicating, what do they mean? >> this ride operator faces three criminal accounts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious bodily injury. the alleged weapon in this case is the right itself. police are accusing the operator, 46-year-old timothy of georgia of altering the ride in a way that made it unsafe. >> ...

He served three years of a sentence. he died in june of 2009 from overdose of propofol. in court this morning a fair ride operator charged with three felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon. he was operating the vortex ride on thursday at the state fair. 5 people were hurt as the ride kept moving as they were trying to get off the ride. >> the ride turned upside down and dumped everybody out. they got hurt. there are people hurting are willy bad like their head and stuff. >> five people fell, 20 feet drop. >> three people are still in the hospital. investigators say the ride was tamper...

Timothy dwayne tutterrow of quitman, georgia. he is that ride operator now facing three criminal counts of assault with a deadly weapon. in this case, the alleged weapon is the ride itself. authorities are accusing the operator of tampering with the ride after an inspection in a way that they say compromised safety mechanisms. tutterrow is scheduled to appear in court this afternoon. there you saw him in that video just now. his attorney wouldn't discuss details of the case, but said that his client is devastated by what happened. witnesses say on thursday, a ride called the vortex suddenly we...

Had police searching the campus of indiana university early this morning. police say one suspect is now in du custody and a second has been identified but is not believed to be dangerous. officers found a victim with stab wounds in an apartment on the school's main campus in bloomington. police ninitially told students to lock themselves in a safe location, but the campus has now been given the all clear. they said the victim was slashed in a fight. he was taken to the hospital. >> in nort carolina, police there made an arrest after a terrifying accident at the state fair. the ride operator ha...