TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A northeast Kansas county is launching a new effort to more quickly evaluate the mental competency of people charged with a crime. It’s believed the be the first such program of ...

Hardy has also been ordered to remain in his current placement at Central Ohio Behavioral Health.

CLEVELAND — The competency of De'Lawnte Hardy, the 26-year-old accused of killing Cleveland police officer Jamieson Ritter and his own grandmother, Beatrice Porter, last year, was again considered at ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County prosecutors are backing a bill that aims to extend the mental competency restoration period for aggravated murder and murder defendants from one year to five years.

BENNINGTON — A discussion of legal competency restoration will be held at the State House in Montpelier on Wednesday, Jan. 21. Featured attendees will be Kelly Carroll, mother of murder victim Emily ...