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Veteran suicide: growing numbers, intensified outreach
— Sleep was dangerous for me. I couldn't handle the nightmares. I thought I was psychotic. I diagnosed myself with anything other than PTSD. I came up with a plan to end the pain, end the nightmares and keep the people I loved from being hurt. I...
Tags: Suicide, Veterans Affairs, Hospitals and Clinics, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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Lawmakers should close bullet-buying loophole
From what I've been reading, the Santa Monica killer was packing an illegal assault rifle and 40 high-capacity ammunition magazines. He sprayed 100 bullets and had access to 1,300. And, oh yes, he was a mental case. The guy's exact background and...
Tags: Jim Nielsen, Personal Weapon Control, Crime, Law and Justice, Darrell Steinberg, Gun Control
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Liar liar, officepants on fire
That's a good point! (No it isn't.) I'd be happy to join the team! (I'd rather be eaten by wart hogs.) Your cake is delicious! (Thanks for the food poisoning, Julia Child.) These are but a few examples of the lies we tell at work. Most aren't...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Health and Safety at Work, Employees, University of Oxford, Julia Child
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Deployment to war doesn't figure in majority of military suicides
Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital. But what he really wanted was to go to war. In 2008, as the U.S. death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan approached 5,000, Evans became a...
Tags: U.S. Army, Armed Forces, War in Afghanistan (2001-present), Bipolar Disorder, Afghanistan
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Our View: Betty Jo McNeece change means obsolescence
The county of Imperial is really headed in the right direction with Betty Jo McNeece Receiving Home, as it continues to find ways to make it obsolete. That is not a backhanded compliment or a facetious statement; it’s the truth about the need to...Tags: Family, Substance Abuse, Health, Behavioral Conditions
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Gephyrophobia, or fear of bridges, tunnels more than just water under a bridge
Last fall, Kirk Crawley was heading east on Interstate 64 toward the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel to visit family. The 30-year-old Newport News man had made the trip countless times. But over the last few years, something was starting to happen, and this...
Tags: Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Manhattan (New York City), Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Travel
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Santa Monica shooting brings calls for gun regulations
Local officials are calling for better systems to identify and treat mental health problems and for stronger gun-control lobbyists and legislation in the wake of last week's rampage that left five dead. Police on Thursday said that John Zawahri, 23,...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Crime, Law and Justice, National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control, Shootings
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Lawyers fear Jackson Jr. will lack mental care in prison
Tribune reporterWASHINGTON — As former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. awaits sentencing on July 3, his lawyers filed a court document today saying that he needs ongoing mental health treatment and is unlikely to get suitable care if sent to prison. “It is...Tags: Arts and Culture, Punishment, Bipolar Disorder, U.S. Congress, Psychiatrists
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Remorse, but not hate, in note left by Santa Monica gunman
The gunman who killed five people last week during a shooting rampage through Santa Monica left an "almost conversational" farewell note expressing remorse for killing his father and brother, law enforcement authorities said Thursday evening. John...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Colleges and Universities, Weaponry, Robert J. Lopez, Crime, Law and Justice
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Recognizing and managing farm stress
Farmers are often toted as living the good life in the eyes of the rest of the world. However, those within the ag industry know the daily challenges and struggles. Recently many people have been on overload trying to deal with whatever life throws at...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise
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School firearm threat a bad idea, but Dowagiac teen avoids prison term
South Bend TribuneCASSOPOLIS — A Dowagiac teenager found out the hard way today in Cass County Circuit Court that it’s not a good idea to threaten someone with a firearm, particularly in school. It wasn’t a good idea either that Joshua Clark, 18, had...Tags: Punishment, Justice System, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Firearms
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Broward judge blasts child welfare officials in boy's suspicious death
Blasting child welfare officials Friday, a Broward County Circuit judge said she would have intervened had she known a mother with a mental health history was being allowed her first unsupervised visit with her 4-year-old son. The boy, Antwan Hope, is...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Broward County, Judges
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|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
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|Column| Los Angeles Times
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