Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police in one Southern California community said they arrested a man suspected of domestic violence after the person he was with ...

(NEXSTAR) – Last month, a victim of domestic abuse was able to alert an onlooker to her plight at a convenience store in California — all without raising the suspicions of her alleged abuser, who had ...

ALHAMBRA, Calif. (KCAL/KCBS) - Authorities in Southern California say a good Samaritan helped a woman escape a domestic violence situation at a convenience store. In this case, the woman used hand ...

The woman gave the “signal for help” behind her back, Alhambra police said, according to The Los Angeles Times. The signal: tucking the thumb into the palm with the fingers closed on top of the thumb.

The hand signal, now viral on Instagram, involves tucking your fingers over your thumb to reportedly alert someone you need help. To stream WFMY News 2 on your phone, you need the WFMY News 2 app.

“People do want to help. They reach out about how they can help and support survivors, and the fact that someone understood what the message was is amazing to me,” Carmen McDonald, executive director ...