By ABBY SIMONS, Star Tribune

A woman who worked at an assisted-living home in St. Louis Park was shot to death Thursday in the parking lot outside her workplace in what officials called the deadly culmination of a domestic dispute.

Police quickly arrested a 50-year-old man they said knew the victim, who was shot about 3 p.m. outside Sholom Home West, 3620 Phillips Pkwy. in St. Louis Park.

A woman who worked at an assisted-living home in St. Louis Park was shot to death Thursday in the parking lot outside her workplace in what officials called the deadly culmination of a domestic dispute.

Police quickly arrested a 50-year-old man they said knew the victim, who was shot about 3 p.m. outside Sholom Home West, 3620 Phillips Pkwy. in St. Louis Park.

Star Tribune

By Geoffrey Fattah
Deseret News

Published: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:11 a.m. MDT

Domestic violence activists say they have been assured by the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office that hauling domestic violence victims to court in handcuffs has not been, nor will be, a common practice.Advocates expressed concern earlier this month when they received word that Lohra Miller’s office had sought a material witness warrant for the arrest of a domestic violence victim to compel her to testify at a preliminary hearing.

Deseret News

LONDON (AP) — Christian Bale has denied allegations of assault made by his mother and sister, hours after he was arrested, questioned by London police and released.

The 34-year-old star of “The Dark Knight” spent four hours at a police station, but was not charged. British media had reported that Bale’s mother and sister complained he had assaulted them at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Sunday night.  Representatives for Bale released a statement today denying that an assault took place.

MSN.com

EDINBURG – A man accused of fatally shooting his 16-year-old girlfriend, burning her body and then abandoning her infant child on the side of a busy Weslaco road nearly two years ago stood before a jury Monday.

Prosecutors allege Samuel Villarreal, 40, killed Aida Mae Rodriguez in November 2006 because she had walked in on him at their Mercedes apartment as he raped a then 13-year-old relative.  But Villarreal’s defense attorneys denied Monday their client played any role in Rodriguez’s death.

The Monitor

EL PASO, Texas – You heard about the terrifying circumstances Jeneesa Lewis lived through while she was missing. But she also recounted several stories of abuse before her alleged kidnapping. Domestic violence has and continues to be a huge problem for our community.  Officials say unfortunately, there is no logical order to how or when an abuser is going to strike.

“We would see the bruises and we would say you need to get away from him.”  Jeneesa Lewis’s mother describes what her daughter went through after years of being involved in an abusive relationship with her husband and finally trying to end it. 

KVIA-News

EL PASO, Texas (AP) – El Paso police say a Fort Bliss soldier was kicked in the face, stabbed and raped — allegedly by her spouse — before she was abducted from her off-post apartment.

Authorities say the 29-year-old soldier was then driven to Nevada by her estranged husband.  An affidavit says the soldier was attacked as she walked into her apartment late Thursday.  Relatives say the soldier had planned to leave her husband.

KDBC-News 4

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) – Far from the combat zones, the strains and separations of no-end-in-sight wars are taking an ever-growing toll on military families despite the armed services’ earnest efforts to help.

Divorce lawyers see it in the breakup of youthful marriages as long, multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan fuel alienation and mistrust. Domestic violence experts see it in the scuffles that often precede a soldier’s departure or sour a briefly joyous homecoming.

Teresa Moss, a counselor at Fort Campbell’s Lincoln Elementary School, hears it in the voices of deployed soldiers’ children as they meet in groups to share accounts of nightmares, bedwetting and heartache.

WRAL.com

GUEST OPINION

Published: Sunday, July 20, 2008 1:05 AM CDT

Earlier this year, the West Virginia Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team released its first report on domestic violence deaths in the state as well as recommendations and some other statistics regarding this sad subject.

The statistical year the team looked at was 2003. That year, the team investigated 39 domestic violence related deaths. Of those, 26 were homicides and 13 were suicides. These deaths included both intimate partner incidents wherein the spouse, ex-spouse, etc. is the perpetrator and victim, which is by far the norm, as well as fatal family violence wherein the perpetrator and the victim are family members, such as siblings or parents and children, but they obviously are not intimate.

Williamson Daily News