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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Michael Biesecker RALEIGH - A man shot by police after a high-speed chase through downtown Raleigh this week was involuntarily committed to a state mental hospital two years ago after telling a psychologist he had heard a voice in his head telling him to kill people. A custody order signed by a Wake magistrate Aug. 26, 2006, instruct-ed that Renford E. Butler be taken to Dorothea Dix...
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Michael Biesecker RALEIGH - Spending has been frozen from special state checking accounts under scrutiny after a mental hospital nurse spent $5,000 for a trip to Africa. Jim Osberg, director of the state system of mental hospitals, said Friday he had ordered the spending be suspended while the state reviews how the money is used. The accounts at issue are known as "preceptor funds" and...
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NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Doctor detailed mental problems.
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NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
By Michael Biesecker, Staff Writer RALEIGH - A man shot by police after a high-speed chase through downtown Raleigh earlier this week was involuntarily committed to a state mental hospital two years ago after telling a psychologist he heard a voice in his head telling him to kill people.A custody order signed by a Wake magistrate on August 26, 2006, instructed that Renford E. Butler be...
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NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
The man shot by a Raleigh police officer Tuesday following a downtown car chase was released from the Durham County jail a week earlier after completing a 45-day sentence for fraudulent use of a friend's ATM card.
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News & Observer (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
The man shot by a Raleigh police officer Tuesday following a downtown car chase was released from the Durham County jail a week earlier after completing a 45-day sentence for fraudulent use of a friend's ATM card.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Aug. 2--RALEIGH -- A psychiatrist at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro is still on the job despite an internal investigation that concluded he hit a mentally ill teenager who has developmental disabilities. Dr.
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Michael Biesecker, Staff WriterComment on this story RALEIGH - A psychiatrist at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro is still on the job despite an internal investigation that concluded he hit a mentally ill teenager who has developmental disabilities. Dr. Ralph Berg, 58, struck Ricky Luciano in the back during a tussle over a T-shirt at Cherry Hospital. The incident, which occurred...
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Michael Biesecker RALEIGH - An employee at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro used $5,000 in public money to pay for a 15-day trip to South Africa. Gladwyn "Shryl" Uzzell, a nurse at Cherry Hospital, visited medical facilities, an orphanage, botanical gardens, a former prison for political prisoners under apartheid and the houses of Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. She also...
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Michael Biesecker RALEIGH - Gov. Mike Easley signed a new law that requires all deaths in state mental hospitals to receive a formal review by a medical examiner. Easley signed the bill, which was approved by the legislature July 18, late Monday night with several other bills he wanted to clear from his desk before going into the hospital for shoulder surgery, Easley press secretary Renee...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jul. 30--RALEIGH -- Gov. Mike Easley signed a new law that requires all deaths in state mental hospitals to receive a formal review by a medical examiner.
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Michael Biesecker, Staff Writer RALEIGH - State mental health administrators worked hard all week to tamp down reports of problems at Central Regional Hospital in Butner, which accepted its first patients Monday. But by Friday, Tom Lawrence, spokesman for the state Department of Health and Human Services, acknowledged several technical glitches with the new $130 million building. They...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jul. 23--State officials said today they had completed the move of patients and staff from John Umstead Hospital to a new state psychiatric facility nearby.
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Michael Biesecker RALEIGH - About 70 Boylan Heights residents turned out for a meeting Tuesday night, many of them angry to be learning about a massive expansion of Central Prison only after construction got under way. The $151 million project, which includes a five-story inmate medical center and mental hospital, won unanimous approval from the Raleigh City Council in June 2007 with...
