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New Hampshire lawmakers reject casino bill backed by governor
ReutersBy Jason McClure NEW YORK, May 22 (Reuters) - New Hampshire's House of Representatives rejected a bill on Wednesday that would have authorized the construction of the state's first casino, bucking a regional trend toward easing restrictions on gaming...Tags: Connecticut Economic Development, Lifestyle and Leisure, Casino and Gambling Industry, Government, U.S. Senate
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Senate Approves Minimum Wage Hike; Sunday Deer Hunting Approved By House; Racial Profiling Law Strengthened
The Hartford CourantThe state Senate voted Thursday night to raise the minimum wage — after a huge clash between Republicans and Democrats. The latest version calls for raising the wage by 75 cents per hour over two years, with no index for inflation. As such, the...Tags: Meriden, Waterbury, Rentals, Behavioral Conditions, Leonard A. Fasano
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Mental health facility OK'd
South Bend Tribune CorrespondentLAPORTE -- Some Michigan City area residents put up a fight but lost their bid to keep a mental health treatment facility out of their neighborhood. The LaPorte County Board of Zoning Appeals Tuesday night approved a request for a variance allowing...Tags: Health Treatments, Behavioral Conditions, Dwayne Johnson, Health
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Waubonsee volunteers help file tax returns, and more
News briefs from the Fox Valley area. Sugar Grove Waubonsee Community College's volunteer income-tax-assistance program secured more than $1.3 million in tax refunds and credits for more than 700 low- to moderate-income clients this tax season. More...Tags: Arts and Culture, Behavioral Conditions, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Health and Safety at School, Human Interest
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Into thin air
RedEyeIt's been five years of waiting for Rose Mae Starnes, whose adoptive daughter vanished one day when Starnes was out of the house. Five years of anguish. "I would just hug her and kiss her," says Starnes, clutching tightly an eighth-grade graduation...Tags: FBI, Missing Persons, Kidnapping, Yasmin (drug)
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L.A. County supervisor outlines a new jail proposal
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky wants the board to consider tearing down part of the troubled Men's Central Jail and building a facility to house mentally ill and drug addicted inmates, which he says would offer all prisoners a better chance...
Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Lee Baca, Behavioral Conditions, Mental Illness, Substance Abuse
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Asperger's does not make a murderer
Regarding your article about the teen girl accused of plotting her father's murder with her boyfriend ("Troubled child on a dark path," May 19), I found the article filled with misleading information and misinformation. First, the article tells us she...
Tags: Learning Disability, Autism, Ellicott City, Behavioral Conditions, Mental Illness
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Director feared Michael Jackson 'could have hurt himself'
Michael Jackson tour director Kenny Ortega wrote in an email to the president and chief executive of AEG Live that the singer "could have hurt himself," according to court testimony. The email, in which Ortega said the singer was in frail mental health,...
Tags: Entertainment, Conrad Murray, Trials, AEG, Propofol (drug)
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Fathers and sons need each other desperately
Shooting sprees such as the most recent Newtown, Conn., tragedy are linked to mental health issues. Consequently, our efforts to affix a spotlight to wellness are paramount. With Father’s Day approaching, it’s enlightening to illuminate the...
Tags: Entertainment, Suicide, Human Interest, Science and Technology, Health
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New Mental Health Facility at Salem VA is almost done
WDBJ7 ReporterThe newest building at the Salem Veterans Affairs Hospital will treat the injuries you can't see. The $9.5 million dollar Mental Health Wing will treat veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other psychological ailments. The 25,000 square...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Veterans Affairs, Health, Salem (Salem, Virginia)
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St. Charles District 303 approves new contract, pay raises for teachers
After a period where salaries were frozen, St. Charles District 303 teachers have a new, three-year contract, complete with pay raises. The school board approved the contract Monday night after four months of negotiations. Teachers already had signed...Tags: Teachers, Chicago Public Schools, Teaching and Learning
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Where to bury the truly awful
If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of lifesaving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...
Tags: Pakistan, Ethics, Dismemberment, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Authors
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