When news breaks that turns a harmless cartoon into one of bad taste, someone flags it in time. But not this time. Today’s “Broom-Hilda” had passed from memory by the time the slayings occurred.

The Chicago Tribune issued an apology this week, after running a Broom Hilda cartoon that seemed to be in bad taste following the Colorado movie massacre -- even though it was written well beforehand.

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She lashed out with her broomstick in a shower of blows. She squatted on the floor, clenched her teeth and battered the child’s shins until he toppled upon the floor, still silent about the 4 ...

Jan Lachauer and Max Lang: Room on the Broom is a story of change and company. More and more characters join the well-balanced team of Witch and Cat on their magic broom. With each new member ...

This cartoon of a Victorian council's first female leader has fallen flat with women's advocates but the Australian Cartoonists Association says it is a depiction of the phrase "a new broom sweeps ...

CBS News Detroit A St. Clair Shores man is accused of beating his mother to death while using a broomstick handle, prosecutors say. Armando Jourdain Streeter, 46, lived with his 76-year-old mother ...

A man fatally beat his sickly aunt with a broomstick during a crazed quarrel in her Queens home, police said Wednesday. Alexander Fleming, 29, got into an argument with his aunt Juanita Dallas, 55,… ...

Justin Volpe, the NYPD officer convicted of sodomizing Abner Louima with a broomstick in 1997 has been released early from federal prison, according to authorities.