In Hard Times, Shelters Empty Beds, Raise Funds
LINCOLN, Neb. (WOMENSENEWS)–Diane Vollmar’s abuser put a gun in her mouth and pulled the trigger. When the gun jammed, she pushed it away and, in the ensuing struggle, he fired a shot into the floor....
View ArticlePregnant Woman’s Right to Divorce Sparks Battle
SPOKANE, Wash. (WOMENSENEWS)–Shawna Hughes, 27, holds 3-week-old Jasmine to her breast while herding her two boys, ages 3 and 5, downstairs to play at her apartment here.Hughes, a victim of physical...
View ArticleShen Takes Lid off Rape
TACOMA, Wash. (WOMENSENEWS)–Two weeks ago, Emmy award-winning journalist Molly Shen was one of several speakers at a candlelight vigil in Everett, Wash., recognizing sexual assault victims.For once...
View ArticleStreets May Be Safer, But Relationships? Not
PORTLAND, Ore. (WOMENSENEWS)–The homicide patterns of this city appear to be mirroring a national trend. Here, the Oregonian newspaper reported recently that homicides in 2009 declined to the lowest...
View ArticleOregon Officer Wife-Abuse Probe Preceded Killings
PORTLAND, Ore. (WOMENSENEWS)–The suicide-killing rampage by an Oregon sheriff’s officer last February leaves questions about why early warning signs in 2009 went unheeded. A particular matter of...
View ArticlePolice Drag Heels on Officers’ Domestic Abuse
(WOMENSENEWS)–"Deaths of Maine Cop, Wife Were Murder-Suicide." "Police Officer Arrested for Attempted Murder of Ex-Girlfriend." "Lieutenant’s Death Ruled a Suicide; Girlfriend’s a Homicide." "Cop’s...
View ArticleTrailblazing State Law on Human-Traffic Bogs Down
SEATTLE (WOMENSENEWS)–King County prosecutors here in Seattle partnered with the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District in 2009 to charge 10 members of a violent street gang with recruiting...
View ArticleFor Cashier, the Deal is A-OK at Trader Joe’s
Carolynn Nielsen is a cashier at Trader Joe’s. Credit: Judith Spitzer. SPOKANE, Wash. (WOMENSENEWS)–Among U.S. women working as cashiers–the lowest paying of the 20 most common female...
View ArticleIn Hard Times, Shelters Empty Beds, Raise Funds
LINCOLN, Neb. (WOMENSENEWS)–Diane Vollmar’s abuser put a gun in her mouth and pulled the trigger. When the gun jammed, she pushed it away and, in the ensuing struggle, he fired a shot into the floor....
View ArticlePregnant Woman’s Right to Divorce Sparks Battle
SPOKANE, Wash. (WOMENSENEWS)–Shawna Hughes, 27, holds 3-week-old Jasmine to her breast while herding her two boys, ages 3 and 5, downstairs to play at her apartment here.Hughes, a victim of physical...
View ArticleShen Takes Lid off Rape
TACOMA, Wash. (WOMENSENEWS)–Two weeks ago, Emmy award-winning journalist Molly Shen was one of several speakers at a candlelight vigil in Everett, Wash., recognizing sexual assault victims.For once...
View ArticleStreets May Be Safer, But Relationships? Not
PORTLAND, Ore. (WOMENSENEWS)–The homicide patterns of this city appear to be mirroring a national trend. Here, the Oregonian newspaper reported recently that homicides in 2009 declined to the lowest...
View ArticleOregon Officer Wife-Abuse Probe Preceded Killings
PORTLAND, Ore. (WOMENSENEWS)–The suicide-killing rampage by an Oregon sheriff’s officer last February leaves questions about why early warning signs in 2009 went unheeded. A particular matter of...
View ArticlePolice Drag Heels on Officers’ Domestic Abuse
(WOMENSENEWS)–"Deaths of Maine Cop, Wife Were Murder-Suicide." "Police Officer Arrested for Attempted Murder of Ex-Girlfriend." "Lieutenant’s Death Ruled a Suicide; Girlfriend’s a Homicide." "Cop’s...
View ArticleTrailblazing State Law on Human-Traffic Bogs Down
SEATTLE (WOMENSENEWS)–King County prosecutors here in Seattle partnered with the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District in 2009 to charge 10 members of a violent street gang with recruiting...
View ArticleFor Cashier, the Deal is A-OK at Trader Joe’s
Carolynn Nielsen is a cashier at Trader Joe’s. Credit: Judith Spitzer. SPOKANE, Wash. (WOMENSENEWS)–Among U.S. women working as cashiers–the lowest paying of the 20 most common female...
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