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"Saturday Night Live" is making headlines for featuring a skit over the weekend, which parodied domestic violence. On Saturday night's episode, the NBC sketch comedy show made light of Tiger Woods' scandalous week, satirizing reports - denied by the golfer - that his wife, Elin Nordegren, attacked him prior to his early-morning car accident on November 27 with a sketch featuring Keenan Thomson and host Blake Lively. However, the show's musical guest was Rihanna - a victim of domestic violence earlier this year from then-boyfriend Chris Brown -- prompting concerns from several media outlets that the show's humor was insensitive...

Florida police are seeking a warrant to search the house of golfer Tiger Woods and may plan to lay charges of domestic abuse against his wife, Elin Nordegren, according to a report on TMZ.com. Woods and Nordegren have been at the centre of a global media maelstrom since it was revealed that he had been injured in a one-car accident on his Orlando property Friday. Early reports portrayed Nordegren as a hero who freed the injured Woods from his SUV by using a golf club to smash out the windows. Since that first report, a number of problems have emerged...

Last week we were jolted with the news that the global warming crisis is a hoax, an ideologically-driven scam based on data that have been routinely doctored, selectively presented, and when necessary, furtively disposed of. But there's another global disinformation campaign that is still going strong. It's called the Cult of Domestic Violence. This ruse threatens the very foundation of American society: the traditional family. This past Thursday Catherine Pierce, acting director of the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women, issued a Thanksgiving message — now that sounds comforting, doesn't it? Ms. Pierce called for "a national conversation...

DICKSON, Tenn. -- Police officers in the City of Dickson know about the green file. Sheriff's officers in Dickson County know about the book. They've been here for years growing fatter and fatter. They are all of the domestic violence arrests and some DUI arrests that the local magistrates have thrown out. In the United States, a judicial magistrate must confirm there is probable cause after police make an arrest. They do not decide guilt or innocence; that comes later when the case goes to the court system. So if the judicial magistrate decides to set free those arrested, the...

TEL AVIV – President Barack Obama's father was abusive and hit at least one of his American wives, Obama's half-brother disclosed at a press conference in China today. The relationship that Barack Obama Sr. had with his third wife might shed some light into the mysterious relationship between Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, and Barack Obama Sr. It also may provide some background into why Dunham sought a divorce from Obama Sr., although there is actually no record of their marriage. Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo – who had the same, late, father as the U.S. president – spoke to reporters as...

The Academy award-winning actor Nicole Kidman used an appearance before the US Congress to accuse Hollywood of contributing to violence against women by portraying them as sex objects. Kidman was speaking yesterday in her role as a UN ambassador to a House foreign affairs subcommittee that is considering legislation to tackle violence against women overseas. When asked by Republican representative Dana Rohrabacher whether the film industry "played a bad role" in the way it portrayed women, Kidman replied "Probably", before going on to say that she refused to take roles that portrayed women as weak sex objects. "I can't be...

Selene Raynor, a Philadelphia High School for Girls graduate and an aspiring dentist enrolled at West Chester University, didn't care what anybody thought of her. --snip-- Hart has been charged with murdering Raynor, first-degree murder of her unborn child, and related offenses. Police are tracing the origin of the weapon. Clark said last night that the fatal shooting followed "an argument that was in reference to the pregnancy." He declined to discuss whether Hart was the father.

For years men have been claiming discrimination by feminist domestic violence service providers. See Dirty little secrets of domestic violence programs. Law enforcement training is usually provided by these same agencies, causing discrimination to start at the first point of contact. Some men say they were bruised and bleeding when they were arrested during domestic violence calls after their wound-free female partners claimed fear. See Sex appeal blinds protectors of justice and The Face of Men Abused by Women. Abused men with children are routinely turned away from protection shelters, just for having the wrong genitalia. And some fathers are...

Meleanie Hain, the pistol-carrying Lebanon mom who received national attention for taking a loaded gun to her daughter’s soccer game, was shot to death Wednesday night with her husband in an apparent murder-suicide, police said. Hain, 31, and her husband, Scott, 33, were pronounced dead by Lebanon County Coroner Dr. Jeffrey Yocum shortly after 8:30 p.m. at their home at Second Avenue and East Grant Street, police said. The couple’s three children were home at the time and were not injured, and are staying with relatives and friends, police said. Autopsies were scheduled for Thursday, police said. No other details...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., Oct. 6, 2009 – The woman she sees in her bleaker yesterdays is unrecognizable to her now -- almost a stranger. Domestic violence survivor, military spouse and playwright Carolyn Louise Herring Moore, right, goes over a scene with actress Jasmine Wilson at a play rehearsal in Fayetteville, N.C., Sept. 29, 2009. Moore wrote a play, "Women Shoptalk While Real Men Wait," about her experiences with domestic violence. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Victor J. Ayala  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Her fear is gone, and there is strength in its place. She is outgoing again and pursuing...

Cops made an arrest in the murder of a pregnant woman found dead in her Arlington home Friday night, September 25, 2009. Investigators say the killer is the father of the woman's unborn baby. They've identified the victim as 35-year-old Tonya Johnson. According to investigators, Johnson and Nelson were arguing about their baby. Witnesses told investigators Nelson did not want the baby, which was due in weeks. He wanted Johnson to have an abortion. “Even domestic violence it's uncalled for. It does make us feel safer around here. We are a community. We need to look out for one another,”...

MOUNT AIRY, Md. — A home-improvement worker and school janitor who apparently was struggling to survive the recession killed his sleeping wife and two children before turning the 12-gauge shotgun on himself, Maryland State Police said Saturday. Charles L. Dalton, 38, left no suicide note and police haven’t clearly identified a motive for the murders, spokesman Greg Shipley said. “It is possible that financial difficulties were part of the motive,” he said. Police announced the findings one day after the bodies of Dalton, his wife Jennifer, 37, and their children Charles Jr., 14, and Emmaline, 7, were found in their...

The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 09/25/2009 08:25:27 PM MDT A South Salt Lake City man is accused of attacking his pregnant wife during an argument over the couple's pet python snake. The 21-year-old man allegedly threw the snake across a room in the couple's home on the 800 West block of Timber Creek Way (3875 South) on Monday, according to charging documents filed Friday in 3rd District Court. After he tossed the snake, the two "scuffled" and the man threw his wife to stop her from apparently reaching the snake to rescue it, charges state. The woman, who was 38...

Reality TV 'Preacher' Charged With Murdering Ex-Porn Star September 25, 2009 Felicia Lee, seen in a photo on her MySpace page. [Pic in URL] LOS ANGELES — A self-proclaimed preacher who was on the reality TV show "America's Sexiest Bachelor" will be arraigned next week for allegedly torturing and murdering an ex-porn actress in suburban Los Angeles. Brian Lee Randone was charged last week with beating and suffocating Felicia Lee at their Monrovia home. He faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted. The 45-year-old Randone remained jailed Friday on $2 million bail. Los Angeles County district attorney's spokeswoman...

TAMPA, Florida - A man has been charged with six counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of his wife and five children, authorities said Tuesday. The Collier County Sheriff's Office said Mesac Damas has been ordered held without bond upon his return from Haiti, where he is being detained. Florida investigators obtained a warrant for his arrest on the murder charges and were traveling to the Caribbean nation on Tuesday to interview him.

Christie Prody was a faithful girlfriend to O.J. Simpson for 13 years, even as her family members questioned why she would date a man who many still believe killed his ex-wife and her friend. But now Prody said that she often feared for her life during her rocky relationship with the former football star. She says she believes Simpson killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994, a belief that's based on comments Simpson made to her during their relationship. "It took me many years to realize and face that hard, terrible truth," she told "Good Morning America." "Things...

Nunn saga filled with irony, high drama By Ryan Alessi, Bill Estep and Ashlee Clark - ralessi@... The Feb. 17 fight that finally ended the stormy relationship between Amanda Ross and Steve Nunn started after Nunn blew off Ross' suggestion to go out for chicken wings the next night. The two exchanged blows, which was the fifth time Nunn had been violent toward her, Ross told Fayette Family Court Judge Tim Philpot in a March 4 court hearing. A sullen Nunn, who was trying to save his high-ranking state job, promised Philpot he wouldn't harm Ross. "We had a tumultuous...

LAVONIA, Ga. Self-styled Christian preacher and former Fox reality star Brian Lee Randone, age 45, has allegedly added "killer" to his already unusual resume. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported Thursday that police believe Randone killed his 31-year-old girlfriend Felicia Lee on Friday, Sept. 11 in the home they shared in Monrovia, CA. According to a police statement quoted by the Tribune, Lee was suffocated by Randone in a "domestic violence incident." The Singapore-born Lee was also known as Felicia Tang, an actress and model who, according to KTLA.com, had performed in mainstream movies like “Rush Hour 2” as well...

Says boyfriend doused her with gasoline and lit her on fire after an argument SEBASTIAN CO., Ark. - On August 9, Corporal Hobe Runion was called to a home on the Sebastian County line with Oklahoma on a domestic disturbance call that he says was very disturbing. "I've worked a lot of different cases in years in law enforcement, but I've never worked a case where someone caught somebody on fire," Runion said Friday. He said the resident, Petrina Mendez, had called a local EMS unit after an argument with her boyfriend, which ended when investigators say he doused her...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Chargers star outside linebacker Shawne Merriman was arrested Sunday and accused of choking and restraining his girlfriend, reality TV star Tila Tequila, as she tried to leave his suburban home. Tequila, 27, signed a citizen's arrest warrant, charging Merriman with battery and false imprisonment, San Diego County Sheriff's Lt. Gary Steadman said. Both are felonies.

A jury says a North Carolina man accused of killing his wife acted in self-defense Multiple media outlets report that a Davie County jury deliberated seven hours over two days before finding Friday that Kirk Alan Turner killed his wife, Jennifer, in self-defense. Prosecutors had said Turner slashed his wife's throat twice with a pocketknife in September 2007 because he was angry over their pending divorce. Defense attorneys said Turner killed his wife in self-defense after she stabbed him twice in the thigh with a 7-foot spear. Turner still faces a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his wife's sister. And...

On July 1, a 32-year-old Ansonia woman came home to a nightmare, and police now say her husband -- an alderman who was up for re-election in November -- was behind her attack. The suspect, Keith Maynard, 42, resigned from his position on the Ansonia Board of Alderman on the eve of his arrest, according to the Valley Independent Sentinel. Maynard is accused of knocking Ida Lucarelli to the ground, covering her with a blanket and hitting her with a baseball bat, police said. She did not recognize her attacker, she told police. He was wearing a mask, the New...

SOUTHBRIDGE — Police now say a Southbridge woman allegedly stabbed several times by her boyfriend because she refused to get an abortion may not have been pregnant. Chief Daniel Charette told The Telegram & Gazette on Tuesday that police now think 28-year-old Leah Diver was not pregnant, but that her 18-year-old boyfriend believed she was. Diver remains in the hospital in critical condition following the stabbing early Friday morning. The boyfriend, Alex Santana, is being held on $500,000 bail. He is charged with armed assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Santana’s mother questioned...

Last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Second Amendment did not, contrary to what you may have heard at the time, resolve very much. Unanswered are questions about carrying firearms in public, gun sales on government property, firearm registration, guns in government housing, handgun restrictions that aren't exactly the same as the District of Columbia's, zoning and gun stores, and so on. And so far, at least, lower courts have been overwhelmingly hostile to gun owners' rights. The latest example is a decision late Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, which said that a...

Supporters of a women's refuge were 'shocked and stunned' to be told it is being closed - because it does not cater for men. The emergency shelter was set up 13 years ago for women and children and adult males are not allowed to stay. But council officials have now ruled that, because it does not serve both sexes equally, the money used to run the home would be better spent on an 'outreach service' to help battered husbands as well as wives in their own homes. Brian Ellis, a councillor who helped set up the refuge in Weymouth, Dorset,...

LOS ANGELES, (AP) -- Actor Tom Sizemore has been arrested in Los Angeles for alleged domestic violence. Police spokesman Richard French says the 47-year-old actor was arrested Wednesday night in the downtown area. French did not have details of the incident. Jail records show Sizemore was released Thursday morning. His bail had been set at $20,000.

BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. -- Several people were reported shot at the LA Fitness gym in Bridgeville, emergency officials confirmed for WTAE Channel 4 Action News. The reports came in shortly after 8:15 p.m. that authorities were called to the gym at the Great Southern Shopping Center at 1155 Washington Pike. Emergency officials said as many as 15 people may have been involved, but their conditions were not immediately known. Witnesses told WTAE Channel 4 Action News that the victims shot in the gym were in a class in the aerobics center at the time of the shooting. Former WTAE Channel 4...

Posted: Wednesday, 05 August 2009 4:37PM Pillsbury employee kills co-worker outside plant NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) - Authorities say a Pillsbury plant employee crashed his car through the southern Indiana factory's security gate during a shift change and then fatally shot a co-worker. Police say the shooting at the plant Wednesday morning came as officers were investigating a report of gunshots outside a home that was less than a mile away. New Albany Police Capt. Keith Whitlow says neither the suspect nor the victim lived at the home. Floyd County Coroner Leslie Knable told The Tribune that the shooting involved...

Four Sacramento County Sheriff's cars pulled up in front of David Woods's house. He tried to explain to them what happened. But the lead deputy cut him off: "Yeah, that's fine. Put your hands behind your back." David said, "No, wait, she stabbed me ... there's the knife. See the knife? See my neck wound? See?" "Put your hands behind your back. Turn around," the deputy replied. "No," David protested. "She stabbed..." The deputies drew their weapons. David's little daughters came running out of the back bedroom pleading, "Leave Daddy alone! Mamma tried to hurt him with a knife!" One...

The adult film actress is considering a campaign for U.S. Senate against Louisiana's David Vitter. Police in Tampa Florida say she was charged with a misdemeanor over the weekend.

Following news of the arrest last week of Mohammad Shafia, his wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their 18-year old son, Hamed, for the alleged murder of four female family members, a case exhibiting several earmarks of a culturally motivated crime, I steeled myself for the usual media scramble to deplore all acts of “domestic violence.....” Liberals deliberately conflate domestic violence with honour killing because they feel that making any distinction would “racialize” the crimes, indicting a whole culture. But in order to avoid offending the minority communities in which honour killings occur, they must then “genderize” the practice by force-fitting...

A former soccer coach in Great Britain faces a life prison sentence after he was found guilty Tuesday of murdering a young model who named her killer with her dying words. Amy Leigh Barnes, 19, dialed the British emergency line as she lay fatally injured from multiple stab wounds inflicted with a kitchen knife by her violent boyfriend, Ricardo Morrison. -- After the slaying, he fled from the house where the couple were living to his mother’s home in Birmingham, England, where she allowed him to wash his bloodstained clothes.

Following news of the arrest last week of Mohammad Shafia, his wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their 18-year old son, Hamed, for the alleged murder of four female family members, a case exhibiting several earmarks of a culturally motivated crime, I steeled myself for the usual media scramble to deplore all acts of “domestic violence.� I was therefore pleased that Saturday’s Post instead featured plain-spoken anti-Islamist Tarek Fatah’s vigorous denunciation of the practice of “honour killing.� No doubt ruffling many multi-culti feathers, the fearless Mr. Fatah, a distinguished scholar of Islam and religious hypocrisy’s scourge, categorically stated that “man-made shariah...

Robert McGill was taken into custody aboard the Carnival Cruise ship Elation that returned to San Diego Thursday and is being charged with murdering his wife while on the cruise.The San Diego Medical Examiner's office identifies the victim as 55-year-old Shirley McGill. She and her husband Robert lived in Los Angeles. They were on vacation on the ship. FBI Special Agent Darrell Foxworth said the 2,052-passenger Carnival Elation was on the last leg of a five-day trip to Baja Mexico on Tuesday when members of the ship's crew responded to a domestic dispute between the couple in their cabin. He...

It's unanimous: We all want violence against women to stop. In fact, nine out of 10 women said that ending domestic violence and sexual assault should be the top priority for a new women's movement (according to the Center for the Advancement of Women) -- and also for every politician. There are ways you can make this happen -- for one woman, and for all.

A La Crosse woman has been accused of stabbing her boyfriend Tuesday after she caught him watching pornography and masturbating, police said. Rachel Ferrara, 23, confronted the 24-year-old at her home at 920 Cameron Ave., No. 104, about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to La Crosse police reports. The couple argued and Ferrara called the man a “(expletive) cheater,” reports stated. She punched him twice in the abdomen and kicked him in the groin. The man told police Ferrara then backed him into the kitchen, where she grabbed a 5-inch serrated knife and slashed his arms before stabbing him in the...

Last July, Eleanor Adderley fired a gun near her husband, Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley, as he lay in bed, then two more times as he ran to a neighbor's house. But somehow, over the course of one summer to the next, from her Plantation bedroom to a Broward courtroom, the gun disappeared. Metaphorically speaking anyway. In a deal finalized Monday, Adderley pleaded no contest to a charge of "aggravated assault without a firearm." Huh? If this seems confusing and illogical, that's because it is. Especially since she also pleaded no contest to a charge of "shooting within an...

Cops used cell phone signal to track down porn king's son accused in Novato killingPolice say they have located the 1-year-old girl who was abducted by her father from her Novato home after he allegedly beat the girl's mother to death. Novato police Sgt. Jennifer Welch said the girl was found unharmed and that 27-year-old James Raphael Mitchell, the son of San Francisco porn king Jim Mitchell, was arrested early today. She declined to give further details, but several media outlets reported the arrest took place in Citrus Heights near Sacramento. The abduction had triggered a statewide Amber Alert. Mitchell,...

Former Titans and Ravens QB Steve "Air" McNair was found dead last night in downtown Nashville. He was shot in the head. A female was also shot and killed.

Erin Pizzey is a genial woman with snow-white hair, cherubic cheeks, and an easy smile. It wasn't always that way. The daughter of an English diplomat, she founded the world's first shelter for battered women in 1971. To her surprise, she discovered that most of the women in her shelter were as violent as the men they had left. When Pizzey wrote a book revealing this sordid truth, she encountered a firestorm of protest. "Abusive telephone calls to my home, death threats, and bomb scares, became a way of living for me and for my family. Finally, the bomb squad...

Is murder becoming a divorce substitute? It seems that men murdering their spouses has become more rampant or is it just more sensationalized and followed blow by blow on news magazine shows and Larry King Live because it is so bizarre? God forbid that men murdering their partner become so commonplace it isn't news anymore. The public is shocked beyond belief but yet find the heinous acts titillating Till "Death do us Part" seems to have taken on a new meaning. One of the most notorious cases in recent history that riveted the country was the televised court proceedings of...

Violence Against Accurate Reporting by: Alana Goodman, June 19, 2009 At a June 10th Judiciary Committee hearing on the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), analysis of the current law was punctuated by emotional testimony from women’s advocates, many of whom had personal experience with domestic and sexual violence incidents. Gabrielle Union, a young Hollywood actress, described how she had been attacked and raped at age 19 while she was working in a shoe store. Ann Burke, president and founder of the Lindsay Ann Burke Memorial Fund, detailed her daughter’s tragic murder at the hands of her boyfriend. Collene Campbell, former...

GLENDALE, Ariz. — An Arizona man told police he was possessed and sang Eminem songs while stabbing his family to death, MyFOXPhoenix reported. Miller told detectives he visualized his wife, Andreana Miller, as a demon, according to the station. He said just before stabbing her at 4 a.m., he sang lyrics to an Eminem song, saying, “Here comes Satan, I’m the anti-Christ, I’m going to kill you.” Miller told police that when his children woke up to their mother’s screams, he stabbed them, too. He added that he stabbed his son the most because he loved him the most, MyFOXPhoenix...

A Prince George's County woman fatally shot her husband in an apparent act of self-defense Saturday after he attacked her at the Capitol Heights duplex where the pair lived in separate units, according to police and neighbors. Just after 8 a.m., authorities said, police were called to the home in the 700 block of Capitol Heights Boulevard on a report of a domestic dispute. In front of the house, they found Richard Marcellous Wilson, 30, with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital, where he died. Police said Wilson's wife fired the fatal shot. The circumstances of the...

Seminole County deputy sheriffs believe three people were murdered and a fourth committed suicide inside a home in the upscale Heathrow community near Lake Mary. A cleaning lady entered the home in the 1200 block of Trentwood Court in the gated development and spotted one body, Sheriff's Capt. Dennis Lemma said. She called authorities and when deputies arrived they found the other three bodies, he said. At least one of the victims is a child, he said.

Video "Out of Order", a 2000 Chronicle (WCVB-TV) program, presents the injustice faced by men and fathers and the destruction caused to normal personal relationships today due to domestic abuse laws nationwide such as the MGL 209a restraining orders. Interviews of The Fatherhood Coalition leader Mark Charalambous, Harry Stewart, Dennis Watts and others.

   Mean drunk worries loss of free booze will impact relationships, uppercut.  "Most of my relations is based on powerful mixture of continuing alcohol abuse and the threat of violence, both physical and mental" said Leroy Atticus Stone, a frequent domestic abuse perpetrator. "And a little whiskey gets me in the violent mood. Without it, I lose my edge."Stone fears that Pennsylvania's pending ban on the use of Welfare money to purchase alcohol would restrict him from using his access card to purchase liquor and beer. He reasons that without a ready access to alcohol, those relationships with his...

Video"Out of Order", a 2000 Chronicle (WCVB-TV) program, highlights the injustice faced by men and fathers due to the MGL 209a-type restraining orders in Massachusetts. Interviews of The Fatherhood Coalition leader Mark Charalambous, Harry Stewart, Dennis Watts and others.

-- A 78-year-old Lynnwood woman is accused of beating her 84-year-old husband because she believes he cheated on her several times during their marriage. The Everett Herald reports she was arrested last month, charged Thursday with assault and remains jailed in Everett on $70,000 bail. Snohomish County prosecutors say she hit him with a bowl, pipe and carpet sweeper. He suffered broken ribs, pelvis and a wrist. One witness told police the woman admitted kicking her husband three times in the groin in the last six months because she believed he had an affair 35 years ago.

3:07 PM CDT on Thursday, May 14, 2009 By EMILY TSAO / The Dallas Morning News etsao@dallasnews.com A woman is accused of slashing her boyfriend with a fork because he took too long to answer the door, according to a Fort Worth police report. Tasha Jones, 26, was arrested Sunday on an accusation of aggravated assault with a weapon, according the report. She was being held at a Mansfield jail this morning in lieu of $20,000 bail. Fort Worth officers responded to the 8700 block of Normandale Street late Sunday evening and found 20-year-old William Lee King with cuts on...