Nursing Home Lawsuit In The News

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.

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.

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.

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.

St. Patrick's Church in Victor provided Thanksgiving dinners for those who may have otherwise gone without. This is the ninth year the church has provided the holiday feast. Area businesses donate the food and parishioners bring a dish to pass.

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.

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."

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.

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.

East Texas Medical Center Athens and the Henderson County Hospital Authority have been reinstated in the Texas Medicaid Rural Upper Payment Limit Program, Dean Davis, the attorney representing ETMC, said earlier this week.