self defense

In cities across the U.S., communities are hosting and teaching older Asian Americans to defend themselves against physical attacks.

These Asian American seniors from New York are the latest to take matters into their own hands. They are learning how to protect themselves with self-defense classes as hate crimes continue to plague the AAPI community in 2021.

Wisconsin’s self-defense law led to Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal on homicide charges, sparking protests across the state and the country. Now, advocates are calling for justice for a child sex trafficking survivor in the state, holding that if Rittenhouse could successfully claim self-defense, then she can, too.

Julia Enright was found guilty of second-degree murder Monday in the 2018 killing of a man in Massachusetts, the Telegram and Gazette reported. Enright was accused of luring 20-year-old Brandon Chicklis to a treehouse near her Ashburnham home to kill him.

Julia Enright was found guilty of second-degree murder Monday in the 2018 killing of a man in Massachusetts. The verdict was announced around 11 a.m. Monday in Worcester Superior Court after roughly two days of deliberations. The case had gone to the jury on Nov. 23 following 10 days of testimony. Enright is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 18….

A Massachusetts jury tasked with deciding whether the 2018 killing of a man was self-defense or murder heard on Friday from the woman who did it.

An Ashburnham dominatrix accused of murder testified in her defense during her trial Friday.

Vanessa Marcotte was killed in 2016 while out for a run in Princeton, Mass.

The foundation named for the woman killed while out for a run near her mother’s Massachusetts home in 2016 is teaming up with the local sheriff’s department for a women’s self-defense workshop. The workshop presented by the Vanessa T. Marcotte Foundation and the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office is scheduled to take place on Wednesday in the Blue Lounge on...

Julia Enright has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the death of Brandon Chicklis.