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Parents, teachers uneasy after second gun incident
Parents and teachers in Baltimore County expressed a lingering uneasiness about school violence Wednesday, despite school officials' promises of beefed-up security after the second gun-related incident in two weeks.
The morning after an eighth-grader...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Baltimore County, Students, Catonsville, Interior Policy
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Hannah More School to become a part of Sheppard Pratt
Hannah More School, a private school for children with autism and other emotional and learning disabilities, is becoming a part of Sheppard Pratt Health System. Officials with Hannah More said merging with the state's largest provider of mental health...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Dundalk, Autism, Behavioral Conditions, Family
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Perry Hall High School still under heavy patrol after shooting
Perry Hall High School will maintain a heightened police presence until its principal determines that the campus is ready to return to normal, in the aftermath of a cafeteria shooting in which one student critically injured another on the first day of...
Tags: Baltimore County, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Students, Mental Health, Down Syndrome
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Police: Crofton man planned mass shooting, called himself 'joker'
A Crofton man who owned a cache of weapons repeatedly threatened to "blow everybody up" at his former workplace and declared himself a "joker," police said, in what authorities believe is a reference to last week's mass killings during a midnight...Tags: Baltimore County, Raymond W. Kelly, Firearms, Catonsville, Crime, Law and Justice
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Charges in Maryland 'joker' case on deck
Prosecutors face a ticking clock as they continue to build a case against the Crofton man who they believe threatened to commit a workplace shooting while calling himself "a joker." Authorities said Monday that they plan to file charges against Neil...
Tags: Prosecution, Medical Specialization, Health, Mental Health, Crime, Law and Justice
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Dr. Drew makes light of his exercise bulimia
Celebrity psychologist Dr. Drew Pinsky recently admitted on CNN to exercising obsessively to stay slim, a condition not technically a mental disorder, but what some call exercise bulimia. He joked about his condition saying: “a little whiff of a...
Tags: Weight, Physical Conditions, Health, Mental Health, Symptoms
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Dr. Rose C. Kurz
Dr. Rose C. Kurz, a retired psychiatric nurse and educator who had been a consultant to the Pan American Health Organization, died Aug. 3 of complications after surgery at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air. The Forest Hill resident was 85. Rose...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Florida State University, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Coppin State University
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Police investigated cannibalism suspect in machete report
Three weeks before Alexander Kinyua was charged with dismembering a family friend and eating some of the body parts, police at Morgan State University investigated a report that the suspect had a machete in his dorm room, school officials confirmed...
Tags: Thurgood Marshall, Psychologists, Students, Alexander Kinyua, Health
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Md. man accused of cannibalism is indicted, moved to mental hospital
Alexander Kinyua, the 21-year-old accused of killing a man and eating his organs, has been formally indicted on charges of first-degree murder and assault and has been sent to a Maryland state mental hospital. Harford County State's Attorney Joseph I....Tags: Defendants, Criminals, Baltimore County, Medical Specialization, Students
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Sheppard Pratt to affiliate with Alliance Inc.
Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc., Maryland's largest provider of mental health and special education services, is forming an affiliation with Alliance Inc. in what would essentially be a merger in the business world.
Towson-based Sheppard Pratt and...Tags: Dundalk, Health, Autism, Towson, Hospitals and Clinics
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New Hopkins hospital takes an artful approach to health care
When Johns Hopkins Hospital officially opens its new, $1.1 billion building Tuesday, sick children will find a cobalt cow with legs the color of grass and a butter-colored head floating above their heads, poised to jump over a fanciful "moon." The new...Tags: Health Insurance, University of Michigan, Sculpture, Israel, Hospitals and Clinics
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Facebook users may develop poor body image
Facebook may be focusing users too much on their body weight and image, according to a new survey from the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt. The mental health institution took a look at the social media outlet and found 75 percent of...Tags: Science and Technology, Social Media, Mental Health, Health, Eating Disorders
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