A local jiu-jitsu studio offered a free self-defense class on Friday after recent reports of a man following women in Fishtown and Northern Liberties.

After shootings in Columbus, suspects sometimes raise self-defense claims. Sometimes these claims are successful; sometimes they aren’t. The Dispatch spoke with a legal expert to figure out when ...

At the beginning of class, Chijioke “Chi” Williams invites her trans self-defense students to “shake it out” and simply get moving. “There’s so many people with complicated relationships with their ...

A 2021 change to Ohio law is making it more difficult for prosecutors to secure murder convictions when a defendant claims ...

Colorado’s second-highest court concluded last week that an incomplete self-defense instruction required the reversal of an El Paso County defendant’s murder convictions. Demetrius Montez Martin was ...

The New Year’s Day gunfire outside a Garden City bar has moved from the parking lot to the courtroom, where a Livonia man now insists he pulled the trigger to save his own life. Brian Jaron Lindsay ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 12—The Decatur Police Department will host three free women's self-defense training sessions next week, offering hands-on ...

Fort Worth federal Judge Mark Pittman specifically named Benjamin Song as the person who nonfatally shot a police officer ...

A man charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a teenager in downtown Melbourne appeared in court Thursday, where his defense team claimed additional evidence proves he acted in self ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A man accused of shooting six people following an altercation at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront said he was defending himself from a robbery, according to court documents ...