State Rep. Donald Wong supports legislation to add transit workers to the law providing penalties for assaulting public ...

High school baseball player Jesse Mack Butler was sentenced to one year of rehabilitation after admitting to multiple rapes.

A jury comprised of Bell County residents piled on the years after convicting a local man of sexually assaulting a Killeen ...

Victims' families, advocates and lawmakers question the leniency for an 18-year-old originally sentenced to prison for sex crime charges.

Community outrage grows after a Payne County teen facing 11 felony charges for sexual assaults is spared prison under ...

We’ve seen far too many examples of transit workers being disturbed, harassed, and assaulted while carrying out their jobs, ...

Perry’s legal team claimed in a new filing that Derek Dixon’s sexual assault allegations against Perry are “profoundly disappointing, cynical, and—most of all—false” Jamie McCarthy/Getty; ABC/Heidi ...

What is the difference between an assault and a battery? The answer is simple. A battery involves physical contact; an assault does not. Specifically, for a battery to occur, the perpetrator must make ...

Students at the University of New Mexico continue to report dozens of sexual assault cases each year, yet only a small fraction led to expulsions, even fewer lead to criminal convictions. Survivors ...

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One person is facing charges of assault and battery on a police officer and destruction of property following a pro-Palestine protest in Boston Common on Tuesday that injured four police officers.