GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — October is domestic violence awareness month, and the YWCA is focused on increasing awareness about what they say is the most deadly form of domestic violence: ...

A new study underscores the alarming occurrence of intimate partner violence (IPV) as the cause of assault-related injuries resulting in anoxia, or the complete lack of oxygen flow to tissues and ...

NORTH PORT, Fla. – Strangulation can "very well" be a precursor to homicide, as it was in the case of deceased 22-year-old Gabby Petito, experts say. Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue on Tuesday ...

City Attorney Zach Klein announced Wednesday that Columbus has been awarded a grant to help continue the implementation of programming to prevent domestic violence and strangulation cases amid an ...

SAN ANTONIO – Strangulation is the latest topic for the Texas Governor’s Family Violence Criminal Homicide Prevention Task Force, which is investigating key homicide indicators to make suggestions to ...

Green Country law enforcement agencies are stressing the importance of strangulation during domestic violence. “Statistically if you are being strangled, you are very close to the point where there’s ...

One in four suspects in New Orleans domestic homicides in 2021 had previously committed a strangulation, according to a jarring report from the New Orleans Health Department that drew sharp reactions ...

Victims of domestic violence whose partners attempted to strangle them are much more likely to be killed. It takes less pressure on the neck to knock out a victim of domestic violence than it does to ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Unlike nearly every other state in the country, Ohio still does not have a strangulation law. This would create harsher punishments for abusers, specifically by making strangulation a ...