To avoid a messy battle in court, Mel Gibson has reached a plea deal with Los Angeles prosecutors in his domestic violence case, a source confirms to PEOPLE.

A state senator escaped being arrested for an alleged domestic violence dispute because of an obscure piece of law granting him 'legislative immunity', police said today.

A copy of the draft law says that any woman trying to entering a shelter would first need the approval of a committee from eight government offices. She would be subject to a medical exam that might include a virginity test and essentially be confined to the shelter.

It would seem impossible to make a rape worse. But a doctor in India seems to have gone and done it anyway. He is accused of aborting a rape victim's baby without her consent.

The persistent chatter that Zach Galifianakis's objection got Mel Gibson booted off The Hangover, brought up again today on the Today Show, has so far ignored one aspect of the story: Galifianakis's work with his girlfriend's organization against domestic violence.

A Spanish team has designed a trial that allows men to step inside the body of a woman subjected to violence.

When Adam Savage, host of the popular science program "MythBusters," posted a picture on Twitter of his automobile parked in front of his house, he let his fans know much more than that he drove a Toyota Land Cruiser.

But the message of the song is far from clear.

The New Jersey parents who gave their children Nazi-inspired names including Adolf Hitler lost custody after a state appeals court ruled that a history of domestic violence puts the children at risk of abuse and neglect.

At this point, it's probably difficult for anything about Mel Gibson to shock you, but this might: He was not drunk in the taped rant currently being excruciatingly dribbled out by Radar.

It's the coolest social networking tool in the world. But is the geo-location app Foursquare a stalker's dream? Just how easy it is to uncover the intimate details of a complete stranger's life?

Listening to the rage and ugliness and incipient boiling violence of Mel Gibson's eight-minute-long over-the-phone rant at his former girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, that was made public yesterday on RadarOnline.com, I had a reaction that, I suspect, mirrored that of many othe …

New York, July 10 : Mel Gibson has now been accused of using a handgun to threaten ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva during one of their heated clashes.

The L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. has opened a domestic violence investigation and TMZ has learned the probe is in connection with Mel Gibson's alleged attack against his baby mama Oksana Grigorieva.

'Harry Potter' actress Afshan Azad's father and brother have been charged with attempting to kill her in their Manchester home, according to the BBC.

Vanessa was born in Dayton, but given up for adoption one month before birth. Now the child's father has stepped forward, saying he wants her back.

Psychological violence is now a criminal offense in France, but some judges say the new law may be difficult to enforce and prosecute.

A man has been convicted of strangling his common-law wife after finding she was cheating on him.

But Ramakgale Mokoena claimed in mitigation that he put his hands around Tebogo Brenda Ramafatse's throat to make her let go of his testicles. A row broke out on November 28, when Mokoena visited Ramafatse at the Tshikondeni mine in Venda where she lived and worked, the Pretoria High Court heard.

Leyla W. couldn't figure out where her birth control pills kept going. One day a few tablets would be missing; the next, the whole container. Her then-boyfriend shrugged and said he hadn't seen them. She believed him—until she found them in his drawer.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that say the information police and prosecutors have shows that that Cruz was attempting to honor his wife's wishes by ending her life. He then planned on killing himself.

Amnesty International has accused Tajikistan of failing to protect its women, saying nearly half are raped, beaten or abused by their families.