Police spoke Thursday to students at Rhodes Junior High School in west Mesa about grown-up topics: Stalking, relationship violence and other forms of domestic abuse.

Police spoke Thursday to students at Rhodes Junior High School in west Mesa about grown-up topics: Stalking, relationship violence and other forms of domestic abuse.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon apologized Monday to Denmark after rampaging Muslim demonstrators set fire to its diplomatic mission in Beirut, while violent protests escalated throughout the Muslim world against the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Western newspapers.

The upscale houses of Carefree and Cave Creek are not immune to domestic violence that plagues other communities.

The upscale houses of Carefree and Cave Creek are not immune to domestic violence that plagues other communities.

Some people might be uncomfortable with topics such as domestic violence, abuse and neglect, but Christy McClendon faces it head-on as the new director of My Sister’s Place, a domestic violence shelter in Chandler.

Victims of domestic violence will be able to break their rental agreements early without fear of being financially penalized by their landlords.

He sat on her chest, pushed his legs onto her arms and duct-taped her mouth shut. The abuser then choked his girlfriend to the point where she passed out twice. Later this month, a man choked his pregnant girlfriend and threatened to drown her in the pool.

More than 900 people gathered at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa Wednesday afternoon to celebrate the lives of three successful women and raise money to fight domestic violence, child abuse and women’s health problems.

A Mesa toddler who was killed in late March and abandoned in a shallow grave near a canal died from homicidal violence, including blunt head trauma, an autopsy report reveals.

July 22, 2004

Gilbert Mayor Steve Berman will not be charged or prosecuted in a domestic violence case brought by his wife last year.

Two little girls in frilly dresses giggled with anticipation as they stood just outside the door Tuesday. They didn't care they would be among the first to cross the threshold.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

A field of three candidates for the Maricopa County Attorney’s post features a former county attorney, a former deputy county attorney and the Libertarian attorney who will face one of them in the November general election.

Abusive fathers won sole or joint custody of children in contested custody cases 74 percent of the time in Maricopa County Family Court, according to a study released Monday by an advocacy group.

Perpetrators of domestic violence soon may be required to pay out of their pockets to help their victims find safety.

Chandler city staff is recommending money budgeted for a "one-stop" service center for domestic violence victims instead be used to expand the city’s only domestic violence shelter.

SYDNEY, Australia - Pope Benedict XVI said he was "deeply sorry' for the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Catholic clergy, delivering a strongly-worded apology Saturday that described their acts as evil and a grave betrayal of trust.

NEW YORK - Newsweek magazine, under fire for publishing a story that led to deadly protests in Afghanistan, said Monday it was retracting its report that a military probe had found evidence of desecration of the Quran by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay.

LOS ANGELES - Actor Tom Sizemore was convicted Friday of one count of physically abusing former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss and several charges of harassing and annoying her, but he was acquitted of 10 other counts.

May 11, 2004

FORT HOOD, Texas - Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr., the reputed ringleader of a band of rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, was convicted Friday of abusing Iraqi detainees in a case that sparked international outrage when photographs were released that showed reservists gleefully abusing prisoners.