The 60-something husband works in the food industry and still insists upon leaving every day for work, saying he needs to keep his business afloat. His frightened wife desperately wants him to stay home.
Read moreA man who killed his two teen daughters, as well their mom and great-grandmother, failed Monday in his Supreme Court challenge of the law in Kansas for insanity pleas.
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Despite testimony that he is at “grave risk” of mental and physical decline in a semi-isolated jail unit, a federal judge on Wednesday refused to release a former Peruvian president on house arrest pending his potential extradition on corruption charges.
Read moreA woman who says she co-founded defendant Madelia Community Hospital and Clinic’s Mental Health Task Force claims it fired her after her son wrote a letter to the editor criticizing a brewery owned by the hospital’s CEO, for giving its beers names such as Personality Disorder Porter, Botched Lobotomy and Hopzophrenia, in Watonwan County Court, Minn.
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A 23-year-old man posted on Facebook, “I don’t know why I don’t go on a killing spree.” A West Palm Beach couple shot up their home while high on cocaine. A 31-year-old Gulf Coast man pointed a semiautomatic rifle at a motorcyclist.
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A key component of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $1.4 billion plan to tackle the state’s urgent homeless crisis got a chilly reception from state lawmakers and local leaders Thursday.
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The nation’s two largest teacher unions want schools to revise or eliminate active shooter drills, saying Tuesday that they can harm students’ mental health and that there are better ways to prepare for the possibility of a school shooting.
Read moreParents of the late James Bonner Jr. sued Megalomedia and Mansfield Films in Harris County Court, claiming their exploitation and neglect led him to commit suicide while filming their reality show, “My 600-lb. Life.”
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An architect of the brutal CIA interrogation and detention program developed after the Sept. 11 attacks defended the agency and its practices on Tuesday as those techniques become the focus of an effort to dismiss key evidence against five men charged in the terrorist plot.
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A former CIA contractor who helped set up the agency’s torture program used to question detainees after the 9/11 terror attacks faced five men who were subjected to the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques in a pretrial hearing Tuesday.
Read moreAn undocumented immigrant cleared of murder in the 2015 shooting death of Kate Steinle will languish in jail indefinitely until he submits to a mental health evaluation, a federal judge warned Wednesday.
Read moreThe trial of an immigrant cleared of murder in a 2015 shooting on a San Francisco pier and now faces federal gun possession charges will be delayed pending a psychiatrist’s evaluation of his fitness to stand trial, a federal judge said Friday.
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A judge ruled Tuesday to unseal some documents in the case of a man who has pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible to killing five people at a Maryland newspaper, but she declined to make public many records involving his mental health.
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The congregation at a Texas church where two people were shot to death had repeatedly given food to the gunman, according to the pastor, but declined to give money to him, angering a man who court records show was deemed mentally incompetent for trial in 2012.
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An uncommonly divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that psychotherapists can challenge a state law requiring them to report patients who acknowledge during treatment to having viewed child pornography, finding the law provokes a very serious invasion of privacy.
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Health care clinicians across California will take to the picket lines starting Monday and throughout the week at Kaiser Permanente’s network of medical facilities due to stalled contract negotiations for mental health workers.
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Taking the first step in tackling one of San Francisco’s most intractable problems, city leaders on Tuesday advanced a bold plan to reform the city’s mental health care system and give homeless residents 24-7 access to care, but more funding is still needed for the program.
Read moreParents sued the Round Rock (Texas) Independent School District in federal court, claiming its co-defendant administrator and teacher exploited their daughter by using her anorexia nervosa the subject of a yearbook story about “mental illness.”
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