Most people think domestic violence involves an adult abusing an intimate partner or a child, but children can also threaten, bully and attack family members. Some abused parents are speaking out.
HENERSON, Nev. (AP) — Henderson police say an officer fatally shot a woman during a struggle stemming from a stabbing in which the woman's 7-year-old son was seriously wounded.
The city of Las Vegas decided to go forward with an ordinance to create a new category of misdemeanor battery constituting domestic violence as a way to address a ruling by the State Supreme Court.
North Las Vegas and Henderson are considering adopting laws to sidestep a requirement to provide jury trials in misdemeanor domestic abuse cases where gun ownership rights could be affected.
The city of Las Vegas will no longer prosecute misdemeanor domestic violence cases.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports after the Nevada Supreme Court decided defendants in those type of cases are entitled to jury trials, the city decided to reclassify the offense as simple battery.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A change in Nevada state law to ban gun ownership by people convicted of domestic violence led the state Supreme Court to expand provisions for jury trials in misdemeanor cases.
Courtney Irby had taken her husband's guns from his home, and given them to police. At the time he was under arrest for allegedly ramming her car with his.
"Earlier this year, we were made aware of an incident involving running back Kareem Hunt. ... The video released today confirms that fact. We are releasing Kareem immediately," the Chiefs said Friday.
Lance Mason, who also served in the Ohio legislature, has been charged with assault after police said he attempted to flee in a car, crashed into a police vehicle and seriously injured an officer.
Multiple women say the former N.Y. attorney general physically attacked them. A prosecutor says she believes the women but "legal impediments" preclude any charges. She's proposed a legislative fix.
The Department of Justice announced a series of grants totaling more than $18 million to help college campuses respond to crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence.
The University of Nevada Reno is one of the 57 recipients.
The Buckeyes recently fired an assistant coach after a domestic violence incident from 2015 was reported. Urban Meyer has been accused of knowing about it, but keeping the coach on staff anyway.
Women are at high risk for getting concussions from domestic violence. A neurologist and a social worker have paired up to try to get women the specific medical help and counseling that they need.
The New Yorker reports the women, with whom Schneiderman had romantic relationships, say he physically abused them. Schneiderman denies the accusations but says they prevent him from doing his work.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said the background check on former White House staff secretary Rob Porter was complete months before Porter was forced to resign over allegations of domestic violence.
President Trump says he was surprised by domestic violence accusations against former staff secretary Rob Porter. "It was very sad when we heard about it," he said. Porter has denied the allegations.
A visit to Rancho Tehama shows a small, rural community still struggling with the fallout from last fall's massacre in which a gunman killed five townspeople and wounded 12 others.
Prosecutors and law enforcement in the Seattle area have embarked on a new anti-violence strategy: Make sure the people who've been ordered to give up their guns actually do so.
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators, including Catherine Cortez Masto and senators from New Mexico and Alaska, have introduced a bill in the senate to extend protections to children and law enforcement personnel involved in domestic violence incidents on Tribal lands.
Some local rape crisis centers and national hotlines that help victims of sexual harassment and assault are reporting a flood of calls at what is usually a slower time of year.
