Latest Mental health News
Bulls C Drummond ruled out after posting about mental health
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Bulls center Andre Drummond missed the team's 121-110 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night after he posted on Twitter that he was deleting his social media apps to focus on his mental health. Drummond was ruled out because of personal reasons,...
Remembrances, calls for reform at Irvo Otieno's funeral
NORTH CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) — Family, friends and other mourners gathered Wednesday at a Virginia church to remember Irvo Otieno at a funeral service, celebrating his life and calling for mental health care and policing reforms after the 28-year-old Black man's death earlier this month while in...
A different March Madness: Online hate for the athletes
HOUSTON (AP) — It wasn’t so much that social media was criticizing his son. That happens sometimes — especially after a loss like THAT. But when a post came up suggesting Terrance Williams II, a junior forward for Michigan, be left for dead in a ditch, his dad decided enough...
Ex-Californian sentenced for child mutilation-sex scheme
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Southern California man who convinced troubled girls as young as 12 to perform masochistic acts and urged one to become his sex slave was sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in federal prison. Matthew Christian Locher was "a parent's worst nightmare," U.S....
Editorial Roundup: Illinois
Champaign News-Gazette. March 24, 2023. Editorial: New revenues welcome, but state debts remain biggest issue Cash windfalls create opportunities and raise questions. Fired up by unanticipated revenue growth, Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently raised the...
Airline passenger honored for tackling man in flight attack
EXETER, N.H. (AP) — An airline passenger who helped tackle a man trying stab a flight attendant with a broken metal spoon was honored Friday by his hometown police department in New Hampshire. Jeff Neil, a former bouncer who now works for a software company, received the “Citizen...
Man drives at pedestrians inside German airport garage
BERLIN (AP) — A motorist drove at pedestrians and rammed parked cars on Friday in a parking garage at Cologne-Bonn Airport in western Germany, injuring three people slightly, police said. Two police officers also were slightly hurt as they pinned down the 57-year-old man, who...
Georgia Senate unveils new mental health bill at late hour
ATLANTA (AP) — An effort to make more changes to Georgia's mental health system could stall in the closing days of the 2023 legislative session even though a Senate committee on Wednesday unveiled a rewritten bill that House sponsors and advocates found broadly acceptable. That's...
North Dakota House passes school gender pronoun prohibition
Public schools and state agencies in North Dakota would be prohibited from referring to students and employees by any pronouns that don't reflect the sex assigned to them at birth, under a bill approved by the legislature. The House approved the bill 60-32 on Wednesday. It passed...
Louisville expanding year-old 911 police diversion program
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Louisville pilot program that diverts some 911 emergency calls to mental health professionals is expanding to a citywide service, Mayor Craig Greenberg said. The pilot program, called the Crisis Call Diversion Program, was launched a year ago in a single...
