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 »

Friends say John Williams, 50, was partly deaf and might not have heard a Seattle police order to drop his carving knife. [...] more »

Cross Point church music interpreter Erica Bieri of Central motions to the music of the church worship band to deaf members. Watch the video with scenes and ... [...] more »

Francis was recently elected senator (College student president) at Ohlone College in Fremont California becoming the first ever black deaf student to achieve that feat. [...] more »

About 60 participants - some from as far away as Holland and Japan - are attending the annual Deaf-Blind Retreat this week at the Seabeck Conference Center. ... Seabeck deaf-blind retreat draws worldwide guestsSeattle Post Intelligencer all 11 news articles » [...] more »

The first-ever higher education institute for students with hearing disabilities, offering recognized university degree courses, ... [...] more »

Runge, who is deaf, will draw on her experience translating the bard's work in her role as Lady Capulet in the Community College of Aurora's upcoming ... [...] more »

A composer determined to keep making music as he is going deaf is the subject of Jay Alan Zimmerman's Incredibly Deaf Musical, which will be ... [...] more »

Assistant Rabbi Darby Jared Leigh of Bnai Keshet, who is one of only a handful of deaf men and women ordained as rabbis, said this is the third year the ... and more » [...] 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 »

Gaston County fire investigators feel a man is alive only because of the actions taken by his dog, Jamaica. Late Monday night, Darel Arnold took out his hearing aid when he went to bed. An hour later, his dog jumped on Arnold alerting him to a fire. Both were able to make it out unharmed. [...] more »

DEAF MUSICAL follows Jay, who becomes one ticked-off composer when the noisy buzz of progressive deafness steals away his songs. As he struggles to hold on ... [...] more »

The man fatally shot in confrontation with a police officer Monday afternoon after he refused to follow police orders was deaf in his left ear, ... and more » [...] more »

The characters are all deaf or nearly deaf. The movie is just one of more than 30 that will be shown during the First Hong Kong International Deaf Film ... [...] more »

A request for a class action lawsuit has been filed alleging sexual abuse at the hands of priests at the former Montreal Institute of the Deaf and the Mute. ... and more » [...] more »