Jeremiah Lowe told his wife Abbey that an elderly couple, driving on a local road, fatally struck her beloved beagle Shelby.
Read MoreLiving in a small Mississippi River town, Hayden endured her husband’s cruelty, adhering to the belief that domestic abuse is something to be hidden from the broader community and kept within the confines of the household.
Read MoreMichelle Coleman’s marriage had been rocky and violent, but things seemed better when she and her husband of a decade moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2017. After her new job at a medical unit in a jail, things “got physical,” she said, and she was forced to leave with her two children.
Read MoreThe soft, halting notes of a piano lingered in the dark room from a video as Shalanda Archie-Cook rocked her 6-year-old sniffling son to sleep. “She’s right here,” she told him, pausing to take a shuddering breath. “In your heart.”
Read MoreIn the picturesque California neighborhood of Paradise Hills sits an ordinary, one-story, light beige house with a dark wooden roof. This is where Zeth, 11, Zuriel, 5, Enzi, 3, and Ezekiel, 9, died at the hands of their father in a murder-suicide. He also killed their mother, Sabrina Rosario.
Read MoreLeland and Sonny Boyd say some relatives and old friends wonder why they are speaking publicly about their father’s involvement in the Ku Klux Klan in 1960s Louisiana.
Read MoreWhen Leland Boyd woke up in the middle of the night as a child, he’d sometimes find his father Earcel in the bathroom, scrubbing his hands over and over.
Read MoreThough 57 years have passed, Leland Boyd still can’t forget the smell of burnt human flesh.
In December 1964, Leland, then 12, stood in the doorway of a hospital room, where Frank Morris, a 51-year-old Black man from Ferriday, Louisiana, lay in critical condition after two men had torched his shoe shop.
Read MoreAttorney General Lynn Fitch on Tuesday announced the launch of a new statewide database to track domestic violence crimes.
Read MoreVICKSBURG — Dressed in neat scrubs, Akima Adams, 23, stood small and slight before the judge.
“This is the second time you’ve been in this court, right?” asked Judge Angela Carpenter, as she presided over Vicksburg’s domestic violence court.
Read MoreThe domestic violence experienced by Native American women makes headlines…
But a 2016 report from the National Institute of Justice found that 4 in 5 Native American men have experienced some form of domestic violence in their lifetime, too.
CANTON — As a survivor of domestic violence, Pheonecia Ratliff did almost everything right.
She contacted the police. She filed domestic violence charges against her abuser. She filed stalking charges. Her abuser was given a no-contact order.
But she never got her day in court.