Whipping his girlfriend with a belt may have cost Jason Kolkema an election, but it likely won't cost him his freedom — and his crime could get erased from his record altogether. The failed judicial ...

The Macomb County Prosecutors Office has charged a 20-year-old woman and a teenage boy with felonious assault in the belt-whipping of their 14-year-old cousin from Warren. Tajenae Demekiea Grady, of ...

An Iowa man has been charged after whipping a four year-old boy with a belt because he wouldn't go to sleep. Lakeith D. Morrow, 31, was arrested and booked into the Calcasieu Parish Correctional ...

MARTIN COUNTY— A Stuart man was accused of hitting an 11-year-old girl about 15 times with a belt causing severe bruises on the girl's behind and on her arm. Jonathan Mercado, 32, of the 3200 block of ...