TEMPLE CITY, Calif. -- A woman was killed and a man was injured trying to save her from a suspect who attacked her with a wrench and samurai sword inside a Temple City home Wednesday. Authorities said ...
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Did Japan have female samurai?

The samurai are renowned as skilled warriors, but were any of them women?
A 44-year-old California woman named Weichien Huang allegedly used a samurai sword to kill her wife, Fei Chen Chen, and injure her mother-in-law in a suspected domestic dispute on July 18. When police ...
A groundbreaking new exhibition at the British Museum reveals the untold history of Japan’s Samurai class, including the fact that half of them were women. Samurai is the first exhibition to explore ...
RIVER FALLS, Wis. - Police here responded to a report of a naked woman chasing her husband with a katana, often called a Samurai sword, on Sunday. Officers found the 30-year-old woman holed up in the ...
A Los Angeles-area woman has been taken into custody after police say she fatally stabbed her wife with a samurai sword, which she also allegedly used to attack her mother-in-law. Weichien Huang, 44, ...
A woman in San Dimas, California, was charged with killing one person and injuring another with a samurai-style katana. Weichien Huang was arrested on July 18 and charged with the murder of her wife, ...
A Rochester woman faces criminal charges after police say she wielded a Samurai sword during an argument with her daughter. Peggy Ann Shelstad, 48, made her first appearance Monday in Olmsted County ...