December 3, 2012, 12:05 AM
Sonoma County’s top prosecutor has joined with advocates for the developmentally disabled in calling for local police to take charge of criminal investigations of patient abuse at California’s board-and-care institutions. Cases involving reported assault and negligence have long...
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November 30, 2012, 12:36 PM
“I feel bad for the people who have no one to fight for them. There are a lot of them; they don't have any family. I told them when we were (there), 'You know, I was a hands-on mom, and I fought you for my daughter's security, and I still wasn't able to protect her.'...
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November 30, 2012, 12:35 AM
The College of the Desert in Palm Desert will have to pay back $5.2 million because the district knowingly overstated its enrollment and overbilled the state for seven years, a pattern that the state Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team characterized as potential fraud. The state...
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November 30, 2012, 12:05 AM
Wal-Mart advertises low prices, but at what cost? Workers at a Southern California warehouse that supplies the retail giant say they were cheated out of wages. Now they want to sue Wal-Mart for back pay and damages.
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November 30, 2012, 12:05 AM
A handful of mobile app makers that defied an order from state Attorney General Kamala Harris to post a written privacy policy can expect enforcement actions to be filed against them as early as next week. Several companies might face sanctions after Harris sent warning letters in late October...
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November 29, 2012, 12:05 AM
Under a budget-paring plan crafted by Gov. Jerry Brown and approved by lawmakers, 870,000 children who were covered by the Healthy Families program will be moved to Medi-Cal in phases starting Jan. 1. But it remains unclear whether a health plan serving Sacramento, Fresno, San Diego and Los Angeles...
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November 29, 2012, 12:05 AM
Developmentally disabled patients at California’s board-and-care centers have accused caretakers of molestation and rape 36 times since 2009.
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November 29, 2012, 12:05 AM
A young developmentally disabled woman just wanted to be left alone. What happened next shattered a family.
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November 29, 2012, 12:05 AM
The support network for the disabled is a wide one. Find out how to get involved and share your stories.
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November 29, 2012, 12:05 AM
November 28, 2012, 12:35 PM
A Prime Healthcare Services hospital in Redding has been fined $95,000 for publicizing a patient’s confidential medical files in an effort to discredit a California Watch news report. The state Department of Public Health imposed the financial penalties on Prime’s Shasta Regional...
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November 28, 2012, 6:05 AM
Eight out of 10 couches contain flame retardant chemicals that are linked to heightened cancer risk, developmental delays in children or are lacking adequate health information, according to a study released today by UC Berkeley and Duke University researchers. The study also shows an increase...
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November 28, 2012, 12:05 AM
State regulators allow nursing home companies to siphon money away from patient care to pad corporate profits, alleges a lawsuit filed by a longtime foe of the industry. Glendale attorney Russ Balisok, who has made a career of suing nursing homes, brought the suit seeking to invalidate parts...
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November 27, 2012, 6:38 PM
A former Department of Veterans Affairs employee accused the agency today of “cover-up after cover-up” and a “callous indifference” to the plight of veterans it is supposed to serve. Jamie Fox, who lost her job at the VA’s Oakland office after arguing that a...
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November 27, 2012, 12:05 AM
Inside the bell tower of the Church of St. Leo the Great, constructed in 1926 on a corner of Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, isn't the obvious spot for a cell antenna, but that's where AT&T installed one. Across the state, wireless companies are installing an increasing number of...
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