domestic violence

Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia says the city is taking steps aimed at reversing the trend.

A report on victims who died at the hands of abusive partners in Tarrant County spotlights a gruesome side effect of the pandemic: a rise in domestic violence.

Immigrant advocates want those asylum protections restored quickly, erasing Trump-era restrictions. "Women, children, families are being sent back to the very dangers that they fled," one lawyer says.

The cold weather and power outages have affected almost everybody in North Texas. But the effects they’re having on local women’s shelters are devastating.

COVID-19 dominated the news cycle in 2020, but that's not the only thing that happened. See some of the stories that reflect this unprecedented year, as chosen by our reporters.

After trending downward for years, domestic violence homicides in Tarrant County have reached an all-time high. This year, 17 deaths were linked to domestic violence. That’s more than double the number recorded in Tarrant County last year.

A new report out of John Jay College in New York highlights multiple paths to reducing community violence without police.

New research from the Texas Council on Family Violence shows that most of the victims were women killed by men. Most were shot with a gun. And that was before a surge of domestic violence during this year's lockdowns.

Intimate partner homicides had been declining in Tarrant County in the last four years, but 2020 is already the worst year on record.

The judge presiding over Travis County's domestic violence court was forcibly recused from a case this week over her expression of support for domestic...

The $15 million center will offer advocacy, counseling and legal services.

The coronavirus outbreak has coincided with a surge in domestic violence calls, launching what some have called a “shadow pandemic” of gender-based…