Court proceedings against a Thompsonville woman charged with assault with intent to murder her 5-year-old daughter have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Brendan O'Brien WAUKESHA Wis. (Reuters) - One of two Wisconsin pre-teen girls accused of stabbing a friend to please the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The man accused of killing his fiancée and her two sons in Grand Rapids late last month will undergo a competency evaluation. Charles Broomfield, 44, is charged with first ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - A judge has ordered multiple mental health exams for Joshua Hite, the man accused of killing Isadora Wengel. The court wants to know if he is mentally fit to stand ...

Exterior of Whiting Forensic Hospital on the grounds of Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown. The maximum-security hospital has up to 78 beds for patients needing competency restoration. Credit: ...

Requests for mental evaluations for criminal defendants — commonly known as competency exams — are on the rise in Metro Detroit courts, creating a strain on the state mental health facility that ...

John Cirilo-Johnson will undergo mental competency testing in the murder case of 32-year-old Darnesha Spence in Saginaw last ...

GOSHEN - Three months after a judge ordered a competency exam for a man charged with killing a fellow patient at the Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Center, doctors have yet to file an assessment.

The recent case of Mark Latunski, accused of murdering and mutilating 25-year-old Kevin Bacon, has brought to light an old problem -- long wait times at the state’s Center for Forensic Psychiatry.

The Pontiac woman accused of leaving her three children to live in squalor had her bond revoked on Thursday after a judge ...