State law requires hospitals to perform forensic sexual assault exams on-site, but some without special nurses sometimes send rape victims away.

At least two sexual assaults have been reported on Miami University's campus this semester.

Various colleges around the country are stepping up their policies on sexual misconduct.

Welcome to Duke, both new and returning students. Before you arrived, you watched a video training about sexual assault; you will get talks about alcohol and ...

An investigation by ProPublica and NPR Illinois recently found that the University of Illinois may have helped preserve the reputations of sexual harassers.

After Meghan Wright was sexually assaulted in 2006, she went to Murray Calloway County Hospital to get checked out. A certified sexual assault nurse examiner ...

The theme of the 2019 National Sexual Assault Conference—Beyond the Breakthrough—seeks to inspire the collective movement to end sexual violence and ...

Survivors of sexual assault may face many physical and psychological challenges while they heal, but a new cadre of nurses at Hofstra Northwell School of ...

Art Briles is coaching again for the first time since his firing by Baylor amid a sexual assault scandal. Why is a Texas high school giving him another chance?

Michael Antonov, a co-founder of Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus, has been accused of groping a woman during a VR demo at the 2016 Game ...

While some universities across the country have banned or suspended all fraternities and sororities on their campuses, UW-Madison is looking to strengthen its ...

A Dane County court was in the process Friday of issuing a warrant for the arrest of a 30-year-old Madison man alleged to have kidnapped and sexually ...

Multiple prominent game developers have been accused of sexual assault over the past day, including creators behind titles like the Elder Scrolls and Night in ...

A former church worker has been convicted in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a teenage altar boy at a suburban Detroit church.

Health regulator is investigating complaint against Prabakar Rajan Thomas, already sentenced to 14 months in jail.

Attorney General Dana Nessel sent a cease and desist letter on Thursday to a New York-based company marketing at-home sexual assault evidence kits. In her.

Joshua Boyle's lawyers and the Crown agreed today to downgrade one of the sexual assault charges the former hostage faces, acknowledging there's not ...

Burning Man is supposed to be a safe space. But the culture has allowed predators to roam free without punishment.

The judge in Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault case will allow three additional accusers to testify as "prior bad acts" witnesses against him, according to court ...

Michigan State President Samuel L. Stanley, Jr. has planned three meetings with sexual assault survivors this fall, in line with what he said he would do when ...

Attorney General Dana Nessel's office warned against purchasing sexual assault evidence kits, criticizing marketing she said takes advantage of survivors while ...

The league said it did not find “sufficient basis” for a former sports reporter's allegations against Walton, the head coach of the Sacramento Kings.

Some lawmakers in Lansing want to take away the licenses of medical professionals who sexually assault their patients under the guise of treatment . Bills.

Illinois Wesleyan University has canceled author Michael Shermer's visit for the President's Convocation after the university discovered sexual assault.

A woman in New York said she was raped by the financier who was charged with sex trafficking. "Today I am starting to reclaim my power," Jennifer Araoz said.

Newly obtained documents from a military investigation into sexual assault allegations against President Trump's pick to be the No. 2 officer at the Pentagon ...

Woodstock '99 and 50 were both disasters in their own way. But was Woodstock '69 as good as we think?

FLINT, Mich. -- Former Michigan State basketball star Mateen Cleaves was acquitted Tuesday of charges alleging that he sexually assaulted a woman in a motel ...

Flurry of legal action comes on the day a new law that extends the statute of limitations for victims goes into effect.

I once watched a comedian's stand-up routine about discovering the existence of the “silent heart attack” — a heart attack with no outward symptoms. He rushes ...

(Updated, 11:09 a.m. EST, 8/12/19). Topline: Lawyers for comedian Bill Cosby will ask Pennsylvania judges Monday to throw out his sexual assault conviction ...

The Defense Department is giving new resources to victims of sexual harassment in the military.

Early in the morning on Nov. 7, 2017, a teacher noticed a 14-year-old girl crying in the hallway at Carol City High School in Miami-Dade County. The girl, who ...

The women claim that after filing rape allegations against Masterson with police, they were stalked by agents of the Church of Scientology. Masterson has ...

Placido Domingo is disputing allegations of sexual harassment against him and says he recognizes there are new rules today that are "very different than they ...

Washington (CNN) In the wake of several high-profile scandals, including allegations of sexual assault and cocaine use against Navy SEAL team members, the ...

Danish golfer Thorbjorn Olesen has been charged with sexual assault, common assault and being drunk on an aircraft. The European Tour suspended him.

Opera stars tell Euronews about their experiences in the industry amid Plácido Domingo sexual harassment claims.

An actor who starred in the music video for Katy Perry's 2010 hit “Teenage Dream” has accused the pop star of sexual misconduct — and the responses show ...

Tinder's former marketing chief is suing the app's parent companies and former CEO over claims that the company wrongfully terminated her employment after ...

Afton Williamson, co-star of the ABC crime series "The Rookie," said she's quitting the show because of sexual harassment and racial discrimination she ...

Former UW-Madison football player Quintez Cephus was acquitted Aug. 2 of two sexual assault charges stemming from an incident April 22, 2018, at his ...

The following is a guest post* by Janice Dowell and David Sobel, professors of philosophy at Syracuse University. It is also posted at PEA Soup. Sexual ...

We found several sexual harassment allegations against University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty that haven't been publicly reported. Here's a ...

Lyft's reputation as the "woke" ride-hailing company is under fire due to a rash of lawsuits alleging sexual assault by the company's drivers.

A Los Angeles County sex crimes investigator accused of raping a teenager after having been assigned to investigate her previous sexual assault allegations ...

The response to sexual assault allegations made by writer E. Jean Carroll against President Trump is again raising questions about what women face when they ...

Under federal law, people sexually assaulted don't have to pay for their medical forensic exams. Yet some have trouble getting the hospitals or collection ...

Sexual assault in the American military surged in the last two years, driven almost entirely by a 50 percent increase in assaults on women in uniform, according ...

On July 1, a former detainee's sexual assault claim against an ICE-related family detention center was allowed to continue, according to a Third Circuit U.S. ...

Gen. John E. Hyten, who has been nominated to be the Pentagon's vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said he did not sexually assault a subordinate colonel at ...

ProPublica and the Anchorage Daily News are working together to report on sexual violence in Alaska. We have received hundreds of responses to our calls for ...

Prosecutors in Massachusetts on Wednesday dropped a sexual assault charge against the actor Kevin Spacey, bringing an abrupt close to one of the few ...

A New York-based advice columnist claims Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s, ...

E. Jean Carroll, a columnist for Elle magazine, said in a CNN interview on Monday that she fought back when Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a ...

Daniels and his husband, Scott Walters, are both accused of drugging and raping a man in Houston in May 2010. Daniels is also being accused of drugging and ...

Across the country, universities are enforcing definitions of sexual assault that are so vague that they are blurring the line between consensual sex and sexual ...

NANTUCKET, Mass. — A judge said on Monday that a sexual assault case against the actor Kevin Spacey could be dismissed after the young man who ...

On Thursday, prosecutors in Cook County, Ill., filed 11 more felony charges of sexual assault and sexual abuse against R&B singer R. Kelly. They include four ...

The district attorney in Las Vegas declined to prosecute Ronaldo, the Juventus star, over a decade-old accusation of sexual assault.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former University of Southern California gynecologist accused by hundreds of patients of molestation and other misconduct over ...

That Ashley Wagner waited more than a decade to go public with allegations of her sexual assault is neither surprising nor unusual. In fact, that she's going ...

Two women have come forward to corroborate E. Jean Carroll's claim that President Trump sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s.

A lawyer is seeking class-action status for a lawsuit on behalf of college students who want the right to question their accusers.

Airplanes, with their cramped quarters and crowded conditions, would seem improbable settings for sexual assaults, but recent news accounts show they do ...

While college campuses have become the battleground for Title IX debates, the mishandling of sexual assault cases in primary and secondary schools receives ...

A federal appeals court rules that a Purdue University student who allegedly sexually assaulted his ex-girlfriend might have faced biased proceedings, including ...

Big city problems came to this year's annual Burning Man Festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. A death, a sexual assault, an assault with a deadly weapon ...

A Unity woman is accused by state police with coercing a teenage boy to make a false sexual assault complaint. Christina D. Hall, 38, of the village of Hostetter, ...

Reynolds Metals heir Cornelius Francis Florman was sentenced to seven years in prison in connection to a sexual assault that occurred in Florida more than 20 ...

Bryon Hefner is weighing a guilty plea ahead of his trial on multiple counts of sexual assault, court officials say.

JEFFERSON, Texas (KSLA) - A Jefferson ISD teacher was arrested Friday for allegedly sexually assaulting a child. The Marshall News Messenger reports police ...

Tinley Park police said Tuesday they have charged an Oak Forest man with predatory criminal sexual assault of a minor.

A Potter County grand jury has indicted a man for a total of six counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and for kidnapping and raping a woman. According ...

Telecom magnate Louis Arriola brought Mitchell onboard to run his NYLA Media Group without fanfare in August. An actress continues to pursue a civil lawsuit ...

An Elsa man was sentenced to a 25-year prison sentence in connection with child sexual assault charges, according to a news release issued Tuesday by the ...

SANTA CRUZ — A 46-year-old Certified Nursing Assistant was arrested Friday on charges of sexually assaulting a female patient. Peter Francis Dunne of Santa ...

Police have determined some of the allegations in a campus sexual assault report were untrue, Capt. Gary Crain with the University of Arkansas Police ...

WEST ALLIS, Wis — A Milwaukee high school teacher is charged with human trafficking and sexual assault after bringing a mother and son from the Philippines ...

By Amanda Henderson, News Channel 20 A new law is aiming to catch sexual predators by making it easier for victims who have low-level warrants to report a ...

The Miami University Police Department is investigating after a student reported she was sexually assaulted by a man who she did not know.

ABINGTON — An Abington man was arrested Aug. 29 on sexual assault charges stemming from an inappropriate relationship with a former student reported to ...

Miami University police said they received a report from the student claiming she was attacked Sunday evening, according to a story being reported by the ...

The Athens Police Department received two reports Sunday of sexual offenses.

Brandon Michael Pou, 26, of Panama City was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly attempted to sexually assault a woman at the Panama City News Herald ...

A 17-year-old Elmhurst boy is accused of sexually assaulting a female friend at a party she hosted over the weekend, authorities said Monday. The teen, whose ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — A 17-year-old boy was charged Monday with sexually assaulting a girl at a party she hosted over the weekend in Elmhurst. The boy was ...

Of the 58 people arrested at Burning Man, six were from Nevada, according to public records from the Pershing County Sheriff's Office. The arrest report shows ...

Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins said on Monday that Maryland's Montgomery county's policies enable crimes from “illegal aliens” which “jeopardizes ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Seven more experts soon will join forensic scientists at the Washington State Patrol's crime laboratory here to help clear the state's ...

A Jaffrey man accused of sexual assault was among those sentenced recently in Cheshire County Superior Court in Keene.

UPDATE: Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, (R) West Virginia, weighed in Tuesday on the ongoing investigation into numerous sexual assaults reported at the Beckley ...

Two people were charged after an alleged robbery and sexual assault at Confederation Park last week, three suspects are still at large.The incident involved five ...

Two sexual assaults were reported to the Athens Police Department over the weekend.

A man is accused of sexual assault after police say he picked up a 16-year-old girl at her school and took her to an Austin motel. According to an affidavit, the ...

A north Minneapolis man is accused of strangling and threatening to stab a 14-year-old girl and punching her in the face several times before sexually ...

Two new Texas laws aiming to protect sexual assault victims will go into effect on Sept. 1. One law establishes stricter guidelines for testing and sharing ...

Michael Darby declared himself "completely exonerated" after sexual assault charges were dismissed in court due to insufficient evidence.

VALLEY, Ala. (WRBL) – A Valley man has been arrested after attempting to assault and burglarize his 24-year-old neighbor. On the morning of September 2, ...

Matthew Price, 32, faces 10 years to life in prison. He'll be sentenced next month.