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DENVER – Gov. John Hickenlooper vetoed legislation that rural Colorado hospitals said was necessary to address a conundrum with mental health holds. The late Thursday afternoon veto killed...
DATE: June 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
DENVER – Rural hospital providers are hoping Gov. John Hickenlooper does not veto legislation that would address a conundrum with mental health holds. The issue impacts the entire state, but is...
DATE: June 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
Pilots would lose privacy protection for health records and airlines would need insurance when the employees lose their license under a proposal from the French air-safety agency that investigated...
DATE: March 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Vallecito resident Dawn Solomon knows firsthand the therapeutic power of horses to help individuals with mental illness and substance addiction. Solomon, 42, began smoking marijuana at age 13. By...
DATE: Jan. 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
For all the improvements we’ve made in mental health care in La Plata County, we still have a way to go. That was the opinion of five panelists working in the field in some way at a League of Women...
DATE: Nov. 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
NEW YORK – One psychiatry professor calls it “the conversation we’re stuck with,” a teachable moment growing out of horror. Each time mental illness is cited as a possible factor in a high-profile...
DATE: July 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Despite public perception, the homeless aren’t a faceless group of shiftless, substance-abusing ne’er-do-wells. They are men, women and children just like the rest of us except for one thing – one...
DATE: July 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
CENTENNIAL – The judge in the Aurora theater shooting trial dismissed three jurors Tuesday after learning that one was exposed to news coverage of the case and discussed it with the others. Judge...
DATE: June 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Drafting new laws to limit panhandling is proving to be a challenge for Durango. The city stopped enforcing a law that prohibited loitering for purposes of begging last fall after it received a...
DATE: May 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
CENTENNIAL – James Holmes was growing volatile well before he put on a gas mask and body armor, strapped on a rifle, shotgun, pistol and ammunition and slipped into a midnight premiere of the...
DATE: April 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
DENVER – The case of an 87-year-old Alzheimer’s patient accused in the deadly beating of a fellow assisted-living resident highlights the challenges of prosecuting someone with the unpredictable...
DATE: Feb. 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
By DAN ELLIOTT and P. SOLOMON BANDA Associated Press DENVER – If James Holmes is found not guilty by reason of insanity in the Aurora theater massacre, he would be committed indefinitely to the...
DATE: Jan. 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News