25-year-old mother shot and killed at Clearwater apartment complex
A 25-year-old mother died after a shooting at a Clearwater apartment complex on Sunday night. Clearwater Police and Clearwater Fire & Rescue arrived at an apartment complex on Fairwood Avenue after...
View ArticleAttorney General Moody announces new project to give free doorbell cameras to...
Florida's Attorney General Ashley Moody is taking action against domestic violence,While in Tampa on Thursday, AG Moody announced a new program in Florida to help human trafficking and domestic...
View ArticleOver 30 domestic violence centers in Florida provide free legal services to...
October is domestic violence awareness month. ABC Action News wants to make sure local survivors know about all of the resources available to them in the Tampa Bay area.The Spring of Tampa Bay is a...
View ArticleSunrise Pasco helps domestic violence survivors succeed through empowerment...
Here at ABC Action News, we want to make sure domestic violence survivors know about all the resources available to them.At Sunrise of Pasco County, a certified domestic violence center, there's an...
View ArticleLocal VA employee opens up about previous domestic violence relationship
For more than a decade, Melissa McDade kept a secret.I knew at some point in my life, I was going to have to talk, said McDade.McDade is in social work at The James A. Haley VA Hospital. She connects...
View ArticleLocal domestic violence survivor spreads awareness by telling her story
<i>EDITOR'S NOTE: This story contains the description of a domestic violence incident from a survivor and may be difficult for some to read.</i>Shakura Ogletree is a 29-year-old mother to...
View ArticleDomestic violence survivor starts nonprofit to remind other survivors they...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story contains the description of a domestic violence incident from a survivor and may be difficult for some to read.As part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the ABC Action...
View ArticleDomestic violence survivor granted clemency haunted by past while fighting to...
Shalanda Burt was among the first in Florida to be granted clemency as part of a national movement in the early 90s to take a closer look at cases where abuse victims kill their abusers. But her...
View ArticleDomestic violence victim now helping others escape abuse
Like so many victims of domestic violence, Barbara Melen said she stayed with her husband because she thought he might change.I thought maybe if could just get him to take advantage of VA services as...
View ArticleMaryland advocate weighs in on Florida's Gabby Petito Act bill
According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have experienced some form of intimate partner violence.To stop that violence from becoming deadly in 2005,...
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