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Three American travelers from Wyoming were on vacation in Peru, hiking near Machu Picchu, when they were confronted by villagers who beat them with rocks and ransacked their vehicle, causing them to need over 100 stitches between them. NBC's Contessa Brewer reports. (TODAY)

A Kentucky teen was brutally beaten by men yelling anti-gay slurs. WAVE's Connie Leonard reports. (NBC News)

A father is accused of hiring a girl, 17, for $21 to beat up another student, 13, because she was bullying his daughter. NBC's Veronica De La Cruz reports. (TODAY)

Bryan Stow, a paramedic and father, was brutally beaten by two Dodgers fans in the stadium's parking lot. Dr. Nancy Snyderman talks with Stow's friends and witnesses. (TODAY)

The parents of Ryan Diviney, who are expending themselves caring for their handicapped son, says their love and faith are helping them cope with their son's difficult fate of traumatic brain injury caused by the savage act of strangers. 

Beaten nearly to death, Oleg Kashin, a Russian investigative reporter, became the latest victim of a series of attacks on journalists in Russia.  Now high-ranking Russian journalists are calling on President Dmitry Medvedev to make journalist safety a priority.   NBC's Jim Maceda reports. (Nightly News)

Once a talented artist, 15-year-old Josie Ratley, the victim of a savage beating over text messages, must relearn everything from showering to the simplest words. Her mother, Hilda Gotay, speaks with TODAY's Meredith Vieira. 

A Web site for Iran's opposition party states that Mir Hossein Mousavi's wife was beaten, along with other opposition leaders, during protests in Iran. NBC's Ali Arouzi reports from Tehran. 

Security camera video shows guards in Seattle failing to intervene when two teenage girls begin to fight in a bus terminal. Msnbc's David Shuster reports.