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August 8, 2012
The University of Colorado has hired a lawyer to represent a campus police officer following a theater shooting in Aurora in which former CU grad student James Holmes allegedly killed 12 people and injured 58.
August 2, 2012
Officials at the University of Colorado Denver reportedly didn’t follow up on warnings that accused theater shooter James Holmes was potentially dangerous. The school also sent E-mails to the campus community instructing them not to speak to the media in the wake of the July 20 massacre.
August 1, 2012
The program, created by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, identifies troubled students anonymously through their responses to a voluntary survey.
July 24, 2012
A gunman who caused the lockdown of the University of Connecticut’s Avery Point campus committed suicide following hours of negotiation with police.
July 20, 2012
The suspect in Friday’s Batman movie theater massacre was pursuing his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Colorado medical center.
July 4, 2012
Publication aims at reducing the risk of suicide among high school students by providing guidelines for identifying teenagers at risk and resources for taking appropriate actions to provide help.
July 3, 2012
On average, 17 students a day were sent to the emergency room with emotional problems, according to numbers released by the New York Department of Education.
July 3, 2012
Two girls who were stabbed at Snohomish High School last fall filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that the district and Fairfax Hospital failed to protect them from their attacker, a troubled student.
June 28, 2012
Two elderly patients were suffocated in the psychiatric ward of Notre-Dame Hospital. An arrest was made in an unrelated attempted murder, which also took place in the psychiatric ward.
June 26, 2012
Increased use of alcohol or drugs, sleeping too little or too much and talking about feeling hopeless are all possible signs that a person might be considering suicide.
June 15, 2012
The body of Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) trauma surgeon Timothy Jorden Jr. was found in a ravine near his home today.
June 15, 2012
Neighbors of Erie County Medical Center trauma surgeon Timothy Jorden Jr. are saying they saw a shift in his personality prior to the shooting death of his former girlfriend on Wednesday.
June 15, 2012
LGBT youth are twice as likely as their peers to say they have been physically assaulted, kicked, or shoved at school. More than one-half of LGBT youth (54 percent) say they have been verbally harassed and called names involving anti-gay slurs.
May 25, 2012
A teenager who opened fire in the cafeteria at Chardon High School — killing three people — will be eligible for life imprisonment if convicted of the crime.
May 19, 2012
A report by the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) found that Ontario students with mental or emotional problems wait an average of seven days — and in some cases, months — to see a campus counselor.
May 17, 2012
The state will save more than $2 million in the next two years by eliminating the officers who patrol Ohio's 10 mental health residential facilities. Critics believe this will compromise safety and security.
May 17, 2012
Presenters discussed the benefits of security cameras, nursing stations with good visibility and security shadow programs. These solutions help prevent behavioral health elopements and inmate escapes.
May 15, 2012
The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association and the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians are at odds over whether or not officers at California state mental hospitals should be allowed to carry firearms.
May 14, 2012
The parents of Nathan Conner claim that Wright State University police could have prevented his death. Conner's roommates alerted officers to his behavior, but they concluded Conner wasn't suicidal.
May 4, 2012
A gay teenager claims he brought a stun gun to school and fired it into the air to defend himself from bullies.