A deaf Akron man, who can't speak, was sentenced to 55 years to life in prison on multiple felonies including the murder of a 45-year-old woman. Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas Teodosio announced guilty verdicts on seven counts before handing down the sentence on Friday afternoon for 24-year-old Jerron Johnson. [...] more »

A deaf Edmonton woman and her small poodle-Pomeranian cross were viciously attacked by a group of thugs, leaving the dog with a broken jaw and possible brain damage. [...] more »

One of the two police officers fatally shot in a tiny Native village in southeast Alaska was a 2003 graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf and a former campus security officer. [...] more »

A hearing impaired youth accused of stealing a mobile phone from a bus passenger was beaten up by the police and remanded in the Negombo prison for six days before his family finally located him. [...] more »

Hughes, who is mute and deaf, along with his wife, called a sign language interpreting service he relied on to communicate and signed that he had just ... [...] more »

The "deaf person" needs some service or goods, provides a phony credit card and directs that the goods - or sometimes an overpayment supposedly made in ... [...] more »

An elderly deaf-mute hawker who sold porn to support a second wife, stepson and three girlfriends has been jailed for 16 months for scamming more than HK$335,000 in dole over a 24-year period. [...] more »

A DEAF and dumb man could face jail for attacking his elderly neighbours in their home after downing eight cans of cider. ... [...] more »

Home video showing security guards for a Hollywood store in a scuffle with two men who appear to be deaf has become the talk of the Internet. [...] more »

THE family of a deaf Bristol pensioner who died within weeks of being mugged have spoken of their disgust at his attackers. Ron Dalby, 74, who also needed walking sticks, was pounced upon after visiting his local shop on Ashley Road in St Paul's at about 12.20pm on July 9. He was knocked to the floor by two women and robbed of his wallet, hitting and cutting his head in the process. [...] more »

This YouTube video shows a security guard choking a suspected shoplifter, who is deaf. [...] more »

It seems more cochlear implant speech processors are getting stolen from kids these days. In the latest case, a kid left the implant in a sneaker while going swimming. After the theft, the Cochlear company replaced the stolen implant. [...] more »

A DEAF, 80-year-old man charged with the attempted murder of his son-in-law was ordered to remain in custody yesterday. [...] more »

Earlier this year, many were shocked by a New York Times story about a Wisconsin priest who abused hundreds of deaf children yet avoided being defrocked by a powerful Vatican office. He begged that he was old and sick and wished to die a priest. The head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger concurred. [...] more »

Lawrence Murphy, who is believed to have assaulted more than 200 boys at a school for the deaf in St. Francis, Wis., between 1950 and 1974. [...] more »