Serving Papers is Big Business in this MO County

By law, there are two things the sheriff's department is required to do: Run the jail and serve legal papers. And the business of serving papers is a booming one for the Cole County Sheriff's Department.

"We keep going up, and we're never going back down," said Lt. Wayne Kem, who heads up the civil division, which has seen the number of garnishments served go up 85 percent since 2005.

As of 2008, Cole County was third in the state in terms of the number of papers served, mainly due to the fact that it's the seat of state government.

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Police officers 'bitten, punched' by man in Yamba

New South Wales police officers have been attacked twice by a man they attempted to serve with papers on the state's north coast.

Two officers were first assaulted while serving papers on a 30-year-old man at a home in Ballanda Crescent, Yamba, about 4.15pm (AEDT) yesterday.

Police said the man punched a senior constable twice in the head and pushed him into a wall.

The officer retaliated with capsicum spray but failed to subdue the man, who fled and was arrested a short time later at a house in Charles Street, Iluka.

The man was taken to Grafton Police Station where it's alleged he again became aggressive.

He's accused of attempting to bite a sergeant's face before striking him on the head, then biting a constable's arm.

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