A high-profile New Orleans homicide case is suddenly on shakier ground after prosecutors asked a judge on Friday to revoke the bond of a woman accused of fatally shooting her boyfriend in a downtown ...

More than 400 Missourians deemed incompetent to stand trial on criminal charges are awaiting mental health care in county jails, according to Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH) Director ...

Laurel city leaders as well as members of the Legislature originally supported the idea of a proposed state psychiatric ...

A Vineyard Haven man’s mental health episode forced a Steamship Authority ferry to turn around and head back to Woods Hole ...

An 18-year-old male was arrested and charged with murder after Danvers police found a 68-year-old woman dead in her home from ...

Anthony DeMayo, an 18-year-old Lynn native and a senior at Bishop Fenwick High School in Peabody, is slated to be arraigned ...

A Santa Rosa judge filed an order keeping April Oliva detained until her trial after being charged with murdering her 6-year-old daughter.

Judge postpones Kelli Bryant's sentencing for a mental health check in a separate case involving charges of leaving 3 kids ...

The leader of a cultlike group that has been connected to multiple killings will undergo a mental health evaluation in Maryland to determine if she is competent to stand trial, a federal judge ...

The world’s largest professional psychiatry organization is preparing for the day when biological indicators help diagnose and treat mental illness.

Former Stonecrest Mayor Jason Lary has been ordered back into federal custody, with a judge telling him to surrender by noon ...