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 [...]
On Monday morning, Thomas Richard Cowan loaded 13 bullets into two handguns, left his German shepherd chained to the fence and drove eight miles from his home in Kingsport to Sullivan Central High School. Whatever his mission, it was the 62-year-old Vietnam veteran’s final drive.
For about an hour, Cowan’s armed invasion spread [...]
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“It’s ironic for this to actually happen in the District’s city hall and for all these “juvenile justice experts” to lose control over these girls.” The Mayor and all the “juvenile justice experts” could not control the brawl and had to call police.
The Mayor expects all the juvenile justice employees to “talk” the youth’s down, [...]
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Mayor Adrian Fenty fired the head of the city’s juvenile rehabilitation agency under mounting political pressure to make changes to a system that has seen five of its wards killed and nine others arrested on murder charges this year.
Fenty announced Monday that Marc Schindler, interim director of the Department of Youth [...]
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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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