domestic violence

“I can’t imagine what this might be doing to someone who may eventually want to seek safety and support,” the CEO of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence said.

An officer’s use of deadly force during a struggle with a domestic violence suspect in Fall River was ruled justified, according to the investigative report released by the Bristol County District Attorney’s office. Anthony Harden, 30, was shot to death by police at his home on Melville Street on November 22, 2021. District Attorney Thomas Quinn extended his sympathies to…

A 35-year-old woman is recovering after she was stabbed in Watertown, Mass. Monday night. Watertown police said it happened on Cuba Street around 8:30 p.m. The victim was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries and is now in stable condition, police said The suspect, a 24-year-old man, was later arrested in Fall River. He has not been publicly identified….

A Rockland man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his estranged wife, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s office. Allen Warner, 51, was convicted of murder and other charges for the 2018 death of 48-year-old Shana Warner in Marshfield. On Monday, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Prosecutors…

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced a proposal to reauthorize the 1990s-era law that extends protections for victims of domestic and sexual violence after it lapsed in 2019 because of Republican opposition

New Orleans Pelicans center Jaxson Hayes was charged with a dozen misdemeanor counts today, stemming from a July dispute at his Woodland Hills home. Arraignment is postponed until Feb. 15.

Brendon Owen is accused of beating his ex-wife Shirley Owen to death at her Franklin home in December, then setting it on fire.

One person was taken to the hospital after a shooting during what police described as a domestic violence incident in Sullivan, New Hampshire on New Year’s Day.

After over a week in the hospital, a man suspected of stabbing his estranged wife to death at an apartment in Chelsea, Massachusetts, has faced murder and assault charges, prosecutors said Tuesday. Mario Alberto Mira Lopera, 48, was accused of killing Paula Andrea Ortiz Ramirez, also 48, in the apartment on Stockton Street, prosecutors have said. While he remains hospitalized,…

Franklin locals gathered at Franklin Common with candles and wearing purple to honor Shirley Owen and raise domestic violence awareness.

A candlelight prayer vigil was held Sunday night in honor of a woman allegedly killed by her ex-husband in her Franklin, Massachusetts home. The brutal attack that killed Shirley Owen, the mother of two children, was outlined in a southeastern Massachusetts court on Friday. Prosecutors say she was beaten to death by her former husband before he set fire to…

A man who’s been in critical condition since stabbing his estranged wife to death at an apartment in Chelsea, Massachusetts, over the weekend will face murder and assault charges if he survives, prosecutors said Monday. Mario Alberto Mira Lopera, 48, is suspected of killing Paula Andrea Ortiz Ramirez, also 48, in the apartment on Stockton Street Saturday afternoon, according to…

A Massachusetts State Police trooper was charged with domestic assault and battery this weekend, officials said. Trooper David Allen was charged Sunday, a state police spokesman said. He didn’t share further information about the incident beyond that it was reported by a 911 call from a victim. Allen was relieved of duty and, on Tuesday, suspended without pay while an…

A man is dead and two officers were taken to the hospital after a police shooting overnight in Fall River, Massachusetts. Officers had been looking for 30-year-old Anthony Harden on Lowell Street after a woman reported a domestic violence incident that occurred on Saturday, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said. The officers spoke with Harden at his home...

Elisabeth Moreno, France’s minister delegate for gender equality, told CNBC that the country still has a problem with “patriarchal attitudes.”

A New Hampshire woman fighting for her life after being shot Monday night in Salem, Massachusetts, is “doing miraculously well,” her employer said Thursday. Thirty-three-year-old Lindsay Smith was shot in the head by her ex-boyfriend, 55-year-old Richard Lorman, while leaving her job at Doyle Sailmakers. Authorities have said that Lorman eventually turned the gun on himself and took his own…

Police are investigating the death of a man in a domestic altercation Wednesday in Weathersfield, Vermont. Authorities were called to a home on Melody Lane around 3:15 p.m. One man was found dead at the scene. A second man was found with serious injuries inside the home and taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, where he is in critical…

New Hampshire’s judicial branch is reviewing the case at the request of the Gov. Chris Sununu, he said in a statement.

A Massachusetts State Police trooper was arrested Wednesday on charges stemming from a domestic violence investigation and has been suspended without pay, officials said. Jordan Cavaco, 27, is accused of choking and punching a woman he was dating, then preventing her from getting out of the car their were in during an incident in Boston on May 28, police said….

A hand signal meant to show that someone is in danger became national news this month after a teen used it to signal for help to drivers on a Kentucky interstate, leading to the arrest of a child abduction suspect. The gesture was introduced by the Canadian Women’s Foundation last year and went viral on TikTok. Andrea Gunraj joined LX...