Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When mentally incompetent defendants sit in county jails without treatment, local officials say the consequences ripple across the ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A judge has ordered the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to present a plan later this month on admitting and treating criminal defendants found incompetent to stand ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The body of Noel Batres, 47, was found under Napa's Third Street bridge in June. (Paul Kuroda/For the S.F. Chronicle) A Napa man ...

• John Stumlin, accused of killing Daniel Riordan in August 2024, was ruled incompetent to stand trial during an Oct. 24 court hearing • Stumlin will return to jail while awaiting placement at Mendota ...

The man accused in the 2022 killing of four people in Butler Twp., who has been ruled incompetent to stand trial, will continue his confinement at a mental health facility.

Kelly Carroll’s daughter was slashed to death five years ago — and she thinks the man accused of murdering the 26-year-old slipped through cracks in the system. The Pownal man charged with killing ...

DALLAS — The state has approved prosecutors' motion to dismiss the case against a man accused of stealing monkeys from the Dallas Zoo two years ago, finding him mentally ill and incompetent to stand ...

An Upper Darby man who had previously been deemed incompetent to stand trial on a 2023 assault and harassment case is back in jail without bail after police allegedly found bomb-making parts and ...