Nursing Home Lawsuit In The News

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio Association of Realtors reports sales of new and existing homes fell 9.4 percent last month in Ohio, compared to the level seen in September. The state's average sale price dropped 7.8 percent from a year ago to just over $130,000.

ATTLEBORO - For the past 12 years Cathy Hutchinson has been unable to speak, move her extremities or do most of the other things people her age take for granted.

The chief medical officer at Salinas Valley State Prison and five other physicians are accused of defrauding state taxpayers of more than $150,000 by lying about their work hours and doctoring their timesheets, the Monterey County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.

The stories flowed as friends of Democratic politician Jim Mattox mingled at a state capitol visitation last night. The East Dallas native died Wednesday of a heart attack at his Dripping Springs home.KERA's Shelley Kofler has more on how Texans are remembering the "people's lawyer."

The state has to cut $400 million from its health care insurance program. Due to matching funds from the federal government, the state could stand to lose about $1 billion from the Medicaid managed care program.

A man who says he was wrongfully discharged from a now-closed nursing home and dropped off into an unfurnished apartment with only $30 and four days worth of medications is suing the parent company, Petersen Health Care of Illinois.

A fence that went up around the former Emily Flinn property at 614 W. 14th St. in September has done a lot to lower the level of criminal mischief on the site.

Mario Majorski, 48, who was shot by a security guard after wielding two swords Sunday, had not participated in church activities for more than a decade. A man who was shot and killed after wielding two samurai swords at the Church of Scientology's Celebrity Centre in Hollywood was from out of state and had recently purchased the swords, coroner's investigators said today. .

Mario Majorski, 48, who was shot by a security guard after wielding two swords Sunday, had not participated in church activities for more than a decade. When he was a UCLA student 15 years ago, Mario Majorski was a committed enough Scientologist that he helped file a federal lawsuit against a professor who called the church a cult.

Trustees Stephen McClure and Joseph Pete Sr. say they plan to “aggressively fight the charges levied against them” in a civil lawsuit filed by Robert “Bobby” Kaydo and his parents, Robert G. and Carol Kaydo, all of Ashtabula Township.