When the unexpected happens on the road, knowing your legal obligations can be the difference between a minor inconvenience and a major headache. While we all hope to never be in a car accident, it's ...

Washington will not require clergy to report suspected child abuse or neglect learned through confession or privileged conversations, following a legal settlement announced Friday. The settlement ...

Girmay Zahilay sworn in as King County Executive, youngest in history, promising changes Girmay Zahilay has been sworn in as King County Executive, making him the youngest person to ever hold the role ...

OLYMPIA — Clergy in Washington will remain mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect, but prosecutors will not enforce the law when abuse is disclosed solely during religious confession, ...

The St. James Cathedral is the cathedral for the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle and its Archbishop Paul Etienne, who is one of nearly a dozen plaintiffs suing the state over a new law that would ...

A bill that passed the New York State Senate and Assembly would require anyone filing a child abuse report to identify themselves with the assurance of confidentiality. Gov. Kathy Hochul should sign ...

LITHONIA, GA — A Lithonia woman has been found guilty of depriving and exploiting a disabled adult in a unlicensed care home she operated. 43-year-old Crystal Nasir was found guilty of deprivation of ...

As living costs grow in Australia, growing impatience among younger generations for early access to inheritance is fueling a rise in elder financial abuse. Anne (not her real name) only realized the ...

A now-removed report from the Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General documented the government’s failure to protect elderly patients from abuse at St. Albans VA Medical Center in Jamaica.

San Antonio’s Public Safety Committee spent their first meeting under Mayor Gina Jones' tenure hearing a blunt warning about elder abuse —thousands of cases a year and growing. "It's big," Chief ...