A man found guilty but not criminally responsible in the stabbing death of his former Dundalk landlord has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to send him to a Maryland psychiatric facility rather than back to an Ohio prison, where he ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s General Assembly has approved legislation that will require state-run psychiatric hospitals to more quickly accept patients who are supposed to be transferred out of local jails. The Baltimore Sun reports that the legislation passed the Assembly Monday ...

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Hong Kong, Anthony Weiner and jails and the mentally ill round out the roundup.

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ANNAPOLIS — Gun should be taken away from anyone who is found by a licensed health care provider, educator or police to be a threat, a panel studying firearms access by the mentally ill recommended Wednesday. The report is being ...

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A task force studying the access mentally ill people have to firearms is holding its first meeting. The task force is meeting Tuesday in Reisterstown. The panel is studying whether current state laws are adequate or need to be changed. ...

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PHOENIX — Prosecutors asked a court to dismiss an appeal by the Tucson shooting rampage suspect over his forced medication with psychotropic drugs. The dismissal request was made Friday with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Jared Lee Loughner’s attorneys ...

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WASHINGTON — A long-running lawsuit over the way the District of Columbia provides health services to seriously mentally ill residents is coming to a close. A federal judge on Monday gave preliminary approval to a settlement in a class-action lawsuit ...

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ROCKVILLE — Lawyers for a woman charged with killing a co-worker at an upscale yoga clothing shop in Bethesda say they plan to call at least one mental health expert at the October trial. The statements in court Wednesday lay ...

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FORT CARSON, Colo. — A mentally ill U.S. soldier has been sentenced to 12 ½ years in military prison after pleading guilty to killing a suspected Taliban member while he was sleeping in his jail cell. Pfc. David Lawrence pleaded ...

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