Charges dropped

Prosecutors in Pittsburgh, US, have dropped assault and other charges against former lightweight boxing champion Paul Spadafora for allegedly stabbing his brother and kicking his mother during a family dispute. He’s still charged with threatening police officers who intervened, and spitting on one. Spadafora waived a preliminary hearing yesterday on a single aggravated assault charge, several counts of making terroristic threats and resisting arrest. The charges involving his family members were dropped because the family failed to show up to testify at yesterday’s hearing about the December fracas.