Articles About domestic violence

• HRC focus on women’s safety

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 17, 2016

  

  If a woman’s instinct says she’s unsafe in a situation, she should trust that feeling, according to two public safety experts at last Thursday’s Human Relations Commission, or HRC, meeting.

• Subject of police search taken to hospital

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 11, 2013

  

  At 12:40 p.m. Thursday, July 11, the Yellow Springs police apprehended Stefan Ritchie, 24, and transported him to Greene County Memorial Hospital.

• Guns and the Village: where we are, what to do

  By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 31, 2013

  While gun rights advocates and gun control advocates both see a correlation between guns and violence, they have come to opposite conclusions.

• Women’s shelter started in Yellow Springs

  By Jeff SimonsOctober 18, 2012

  Local resident Susan Stiles helped found the Family Violence Prevention Center — informally known as the Xenia Women’s Shelter — in Greene County in 1979. Then it was called the Greene County Domestic Violence Project. It was initially located in a couple of different locations in Yellow Springs.

• Youth linen drive aids women’s shelter

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 14, 2010

  

  The youth of First Presbyterian Church are holding a linen drive throughout the month of November, collecting new, white linens for the Family Violence Protection Center of Greene County.