Domestic assault
Editorial Roundup: Wisconsin

By The Associated Press May. 26, 2021 12:04 PM EDT
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. May 25, 2021. Editorial: Be careful with ticket prices High ticket prices have been the...

Fond du Lac prosecutor announces attorney general run

Apr. 03, 2021 01:07 PM EDT
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney will challenge Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul next year. Toney...

The Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence Executive Director Sarah Prout Rennie is photographed March 31, 2021 in Detroit. Michigan is facing another public health threat on top of COVID-19: soaring domestic violence cases says Prout Rennie. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Michigan gets surge of calls from domestic violence victims

By Anna Liz Nichols Apr. 03, 2021 10:44 AM EDT

Georgia Senate seeks to put its stamp on $27.3B budget

By Jeff Amy Mar. 22, 2021 02:52 PM EDT
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia Senate budget proposal would spend more on after-school care and domestic violence shelters, pay for every superior court judge in the...

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 file photo, Chicago White Sox shortstop Omar Vizquel watches practice on an adjacent field during baseball spring training practice in Glendale, Ariz. Longtime major league shortstop Omar Vizquel is denying accusations of domestic abuse made by his wife after she described two alleged acts of physical violence by the 11-time Gold Glove winner in a story published by The Athletic. Blanca Vizquel, 36, said her 53-year-old husband first assaulted her in 2011, three years before they married, and again in 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
Omar Vizquel denies wife's allegations of domestic abuse

By The Associated Press Dec. 16, 2020 09:10 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: Georgia

By The Associated Press Dec. 02, 2020 10:32 AM EST
Recent editorials from Georgia newspapers: ___ Dec. 1 The Brunswick News on the lack of treatment...

Ex-NASCAR driver McClure gets probation in long-delayed case

By Sarah Rankin Oct. 22, 2020 02:41 PM EDT
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former NASCAR driver Eric McClure pleaded no contest this week to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge and was sentenced to probation,...

Garbage and dump trucks were set ablaze on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020 by rioters near the Kenosha County Courthouse where they had been set up to prevent damage to the building. The building was still damaged and was closed on Monday. (Sean Krajacic/Kenosha News via AP)
Police shooting of Black man stirs unrest in Wisconsin city

By Scott Bauer And Morry Gash Aug. 24, 2020 12:52 PM EDT

Johnny Depp, center, wearing a protective mask arrives at the Royal Court of Justice, in London, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Johnny Depp is suing a tabloid newspaper for libel over an article that branded him a "wife beater." On Tuesday, a judge at the High Court is due to begin hearing Depp's claim against The Sun's publisher, News Group Newspapers, and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, over the 2018 story alleging he was violent and abusive to then-wife Amber Heard. Depp strongly denies the claim. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
At libel trial, Depp blasts Amber Heard's 'sick' abuse claim

By Jill Lawless Jul. 07, 2020 05:25 AM EDT

Protesters who were arrested by police for breaking a curfew during a solidarity rally calling for justice over the death of George Floyd, sit on a sidewalk as they wait to be taken away in a van on Thursday, June 4, 2020, in New York. Floyd, an African American man, died on May 25 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes even after he stopped moving and pleading for air. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
The Latest: Protesters take to NYC streets after curfew

By The Associated Press Jun. 04, 2020 03:31 AM EDT

An electronic screen, installed on the facade of a business centre, shows an image of a doctor wearing a medical mask and calling to be careful not to become infected with coronavirus in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Russia: Domestic violence reports spike amid virus lockdown

By Daria Litvinova May. 05, 2020 07:38 AM EDT

A soldier talks with an RCMP officer at a checkpoint in Portapique, N.S. on Thursday, April 23, 2020. The military has provided personnel, modular tents, lights, tables, chairs and generators to a number of locations in the province. RCMP say at least 22 people are dead after a man who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock-up cruiser, went on a murder rampage in Portapique and several other Nova Scotia communities. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canada mass shooting started with assault on girlfriend

By Rob Gillies Apr. 24, 2020 12:05 AM EDT