Neighbors in one Franklin County town are hoping their home surveillance system will help detectives catch three men who broke into their home Tuesday. The video shows the men breaking in and then running when a resident scared them off. Chris Jones said he awoke to noises Tuesday morning. He's living with a friend who had just installed surveillance cameras inside and...

We saw an article recently that talked about the prevalence of domestic violence in the United States. It included an alarming statistic that most victims do not talk about their experiences. In this article we will explore those statistics and try to make sense of why the silence is deafening. The article was based on a study paid for by the Avon...

A walk in the park with her dog turned into a nightmare for Dunedin woman Sonia McGregor after her dog Ali was attacked by another dog. Soon after Ali had been let off his leash to run around Kettle Park, a dog, which looked like a pit bull, ran from the other side of the field and started biting Ali's neck, she...

Hidden cameras and mystery-shopper exercises may form part of a revamped inspection regime for care homes and domiciliary care in England next year. New adult social care chief inspector Andrea Sutcliffe said she wanted to explore the role such techniques could play in uncovering abuse and neglect. But she admitted their use would have to be balanced against the need for privacy...

"Police (in the UK) have defended their increasing use of the 50,000-volt Taser stun gun. The device, which fires two tiny darts connected by a wire, delivers a disabling electrical charge to the body. The Taser was deployed by officers 123 times in the county in 2011 It was designed for use in situations in which officers would previously have used conventional...

Deployed women who underwent “combat-like” experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan are much more likely to report sexual harassment and sexual assault compared with other deployed women, according to a new study. Published in the August edition of Women’s Health Issues journal, the study used data from more than 13,000 military women who have been tracked in the Millennium Cohort Study, which began...