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  EDMONTON -- The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) released statistics Friday showing a 13 per cent rise in the number of domestic violence victims it encountered last year compared to the year prior. It said in 2020 there were 9,545 violence victims compared to 8,406 in 2019. Police also said the number of serious assaults related to domestic violence "increased dramatically." "The number of violent assaults causing bodily harm and/or with a weapon increased by 31.6 per cent," said Insp. Sean Armstrong with the EPS serious crimes branch during a Thursday media availability. "This unsettl...

Article content The most severe kinds of domestic violence rose in Edmonton last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, police said Thursday. There were 34 domestic violence incidents involving firearms in 2020, predominantly handguns, which is a 54 per cent increase from 22 in 2019, according to police data. Knives were used against 155 victims, and aggressors used a substance to burn 35 victims, up 25 per cent and 75 per cent, respectively, from the year before. There were four domestic homicides in 2020 and two in 2019. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser...

years ago. >> tonight that woman has been found. 34-year-old christine jarrett vanished from her home in elk ridge, maryland in 1991. after a startling discovery howard county police now believe she's been there the whole time. jackie bensen has our report from elkridge. >> reporter: friend and neighbor cindy friar has always believed 34-year-old christine jarrett would have never willingly left her young sons. >> hopefully, her sons will know she didn't desert them. and that i think, you know, she loved them. >> reporter: and it now appears christine jarrett never did leave the tidy...

us anymore. we are pretty somber. >> she was real energetic type person. she is just cool. ♪ >> her schoolmates remembered her through song, dance, and poems. >> i remember you telling me that you wanted to be my roommate. how things could have been different. >> prosecutors say she was stabbed to death last week when she got into another -- into an argument over music playing on an ipod. >> i say to both girls, not just the one who died -- another girl who actually did it. i heard she was going through some things, too. i feel kind of that on both ends. >> dominicks mother and gra...