Wonderful news from the Madina Lake camp: Matthew Leone is set to rejoin Madina Lake on stage for the first time since suffering a horrendous beating coming to the aid of a battered woman. more ›

Domestic violence has been an increasing problem in Illinois and budget constraints have limited the services available to victims and children. more ›

The drama ain't over for Jay Mariotti yet. Arrested in August for an alleged domestic violence incident involving his girlfriend, Mariotti has now been charged by Los Angeles prosecutors with with seven misdemeanors. The charges break down as: two counts of domestic violence with injury, two counts of domestic violence, one count of grand theft, one count of false imprisonment, and one count of vandalism. The max sentence for each charge is a year in jail. He's due to be arraigned Friday morning. more ›

After committing a commendable act of bravery—coming to the aid of a woman being assaulted by her husband, then being beaten unconscious by him—Madina Lake bassist Matthew Leone has regained consciousness, according to MTV News. Leone was on his way to a bar in West Town when he had witnessed the reported assault. He then intervened, subduing the man long enough to call authorities, at which point Leone was attacked and left unconscious on the street by both the husband and wife. more ›

A pair of crime scenes on the Southwest Side has left a body count of six for police to investigate. The first was in the city's West Elsdon neighborhood. Three people are dead in what police are calling a double murder-suicide shooting that occurred last night in the 4200 block of West 55th Street. Police suspect a woman and another man were shot dead by the woman's estranged husband who then killed himself. It's at least the city's third multiple victim domestic-related incident in the last month, coming just weeks after a domestic-related incident left five dead in Marquette Park and a murder-suicide at th Loop Old Navy store left two dead. more ›

A man is being held on one count of attempted murder and one count of aggravated domestic battery after an early morning fight yesterday with his girlfriend that included him trying to bite her ear off and partly succeeding. Not much else is known about the fight but police say they were able to recover a portion of the ear that was bitten off though it's not known how much or what part of the ear was bitten. The woman was last reported in serious condition last night. [CBS 2] more ›

Gary Skoien, former Cook County GOP Chairman (and current Palatine Township GOP committeeman), will not be allowed to alter the original police report that says his wife became angry when she discovered that "Gary was downstairs in the children's playroom with two prostitutes." Eni Skoien is being charged with domestic battery after beating her husband with her fists and a toy guitar. According to police, Skoien told the responding officer that he had prostitutes with him. Skoien denied this claim and insisted he was speaking with "friends" when his wife "heard talking and went crazy." He told WLS-AM yesterday that he planned to change the police report and that "If they were prostitutes, I would've lied. I would never tell the police there were prostitutes in my house." more ›

Strange happenings in Inverness. Depending on who you believe, former Cook County GOP Chairman (and current Palatine Township GOP committeeman) Gary Skoien was caught with two prostitutes in his children's playroom , prompting his wife to beat him up with her fists and a guitar. But now Skoien is disputing some of those claims made in the police report. He said he was talking with a friend, not prostitutes, and that they were talking around 1 a.m. when he was attacked by his wife Eni. All 110 pounds of her. Skoien told the Daily Herald, "She heard talking and went crazy. Toy guitar understates it. I thought I was going to die." He added, "No money was exchanged. Nobody was naked." more ›

Frederick Goings, ex-boyfriend of Nova Henry, has officially been charged with two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Henry and her infant daughter Ava. Goings has been the prime suspect in the killings since they happened as reports surfaced that the two had a volatile relationship: Henry had previously taken out an order of protection against Goings and the two allegedly had an argument the day of the murders. Henry's three-year-old son, Noah, who was found unharmed in Henry's apartment with his mother's and sister's body had reportedly told members, "Fred did it." Goings and Henry first met when Goings represented Henry in a paternity suit against former Bull Eddy Curry, who is the father of both of Henry's children. Curry was not considered a suspect and authorities said he's been fully cooperative in their investigation. As for Noah, he remains in the custody of his grandmother. more ›

A Chicago man was arrested over the weekend in Merrillville, Indiana for attempting to kill his wife on their honeymoon. more ›

Battered women's activists, already facing cuts in federal funding to domestic-violence services, are opposing a Daley-backed plan to consolidate the city's Office of Domestic Violence into an enlarged Human Services Department. Daley wants to fold social services, prisoner re-entry and homeless assistance programs into a single city department, arguing last week that there is "considerable overlap" among social service programs. "This consolidation will help the city provide a more holistic, client-centered approach to the services we provide to our most vulnerable residents," he told the Sun Times. more ›

"That son of a bitch lit me on fire." more ›

Drew Peterson was on the Today Show this morning, chatting with Matt Lauer about his wife Stacy's disappearance and his former wife Kathleen Savio's exhumation. (Anyone know how to embed that video?) "I can look you right in the eye and tell you I had nothing to do with either of those instances. I’m not afraid of law enforcement. I’m afraid of the media," he said. Maybe because he works in law enforcement, and Savio's... more ›