Lawmakers spent a sunny Saturday in Salem pushing though bills so they could end the short, even-year session and go home. While the session had its share of disappointments, 2018 will go down as a ...

Jason J. Shackelford faced several charges for physically and sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend in December 2019. But among the most serious was strangulation, a second-degree felony. The ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A new crime is now defined in state law. This month, a felony crime of strangulation, including a definition of strangulation as “knowingly and willfully restricting another person ...

News broke this week that the men’s basketball head coach for the Texas Longhorns was arrested and suspended for allegedly strangling his fiancé. The story brings attention to strangulation, a form of ...

The U.S. Army Military Police School's Behavioral Sciences Education and Training Division recently completed two of the three scheduled pilot courses for their new three-day Multidisciplinary ...

More than 140 sexual assault response coordinators, law-enforcement officers, nurses and other professionals from Fort Riley and the surrounding communities spent March 29 learning more about the ...

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 ...

Prof. Dr. Kadriye Bakırcı explains why non-lethal strangulation should be legally recognized as a specific offense, drawing on the example of recent legal reforms in England and Wales. Strangulation ...

Oregon has lagged behind other states in taking seriously the crime of strangulation. The crime is a felony in many other states but often charged as a misdemeanor in Oregon, as WW reported last year.

This story includes topics that some readers might find disturbing. An individual in an abusive relationship is more than seven times as likely to be killed by their partner if they’ve been strangled ...