Southwest Air Worker Hospitalized After Dallas Boarding Fracas

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A Southwest Airlines Co. employee in Texas was taken to a hospital after being punched in the head by a passenger boarding a flight to New York.

Dallas police arrested Arielle Jean Jackson, 32, at Dallas Love Field and charged her with aggravated assault in the Saturday incident, a police spokesman said Sunday. The Southwest operations agent was released and was home resting Sunday, an airline spokesman said.