Oakland police arrested a 49-year-old man early Friday morning after he burst into Children’s Hospital in Oakland brandishing a gun and took a nurse hostage minutes after an attempted carjacking, Oakland police said.
Cottrell Broadnax, an Oakland resident, was arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment, possessing a firearm as an ex-felon and attempted carjacking, Oakland police [...]
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Nurses seek tougher penalties as they treat more dangerous addicts, psychiatric patients
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Erin Riley, a Lakewood, Ohio, emergency room nurse was assaulted twice last year.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Emergency room nurse Erin Riley suffered bruises, scratches and a chipped tooth last year from trying to pull the clamped jaws of a psychotic patient off [...]
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An Erie County Medical Center nurse was attacked and beaten on Wednesday by a psychiatric patient.
The victim was identified in Buffalo police reports as Kelly McCain, a registered nurse. She was in good condition at ECMC on Thursday, a hospital spokesman said.
Her alleged attacker, Terrence Caldwell, 22, of Theodore Street, was arrested and charged with [...]
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ANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Acadia Hospital in Bangor is under investigation by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration and the Maine Department of Health and Human Services after an employee complained about workplace safety. OSHA started it’s investigation on July 26th, the licensing division of the Maine Department of Health and Human services plans [...]
VALLEJO, Calif. (KCBS)_ Things are back to normal at Vallejo High School after a Tuesday lunch-hour fight injured two campus supervisors.
Police were called to the school when students exchanged punches with a number of non-students. Before the city of Vallejo went bankrupt officers were regularly assigned to the campus.
KCBS’ Dave Padilla reports this is [...]
In an article by the Des Moines Register about 3 schools being cited for using restraint on kids is interesting not so much for the article which contains the typical talking points, but for the comments.
Here’s the story in a nutshell:
Complaints about the overuse of “seclusion and restraint” prompted members of the Iowa Board of [...]
There are costs intended and unintended; foreseen and unforeseen when government and the courts upset the balance of power.
The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Governing Committee has approved the recommendation to allow the pure premium rate in the state to rise by 29.6 perent, as was expected and widely reported.
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This was an interesting post that we found. It might be time to do a series on this.
By Jim S Dean
A lot of complaints and accusations are made each year against teachers, with over three-quarters of these being found to be false. Many of these allegations are a result of teachers simply breaking [...]
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By JOE D’AQUILA
Staff Writer
www.trentonian.com
MONROE TWP. — A civilian employee of the Jamesburg juvenile jail was taken to the hospital after she was attacked and choked by an inmate Monday night.
The attack took place at about 5:45 p.m. in Cottage 11 of the “New Jersey Training School,” the state Juvenile [...]
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The District needs to be more careful in placing violent youths back into the community to avoid situations where “some things fall through the cracks,” according to Attorney General Peter Nickles.
Nickles, appearing on NewsChannel 8, said he has completed a review of the city’s juvenile justice system that he’ll present to Mayor [...]
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