California Governor Gavin Newsom surveys damage in during the Palisades Fire on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via AP) In 2019, the Los ...

Torrance State Hospital is one of only two hospitals in Pennsylvania that provide "competency restoration," treatment for people who have been deemed incompetent to stand trial. Pennsylvania’s ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Though not every defendant in a major murder case in recent years has raised the issue of their competency to stand trial, many have. In most cases in which a competency evaluation is ...

Troy Null listened to the 22-year-old man she considered a son as he very earnestly told her he believed he was God. Junior’s mental health had been declining for months — he’d been shadowboxing ...

In today’s America, the concept of competency is under siege. Nowhere is this clearer than in the emerging “Loyalty before Merit” culture — particularly prominent during and after Donald Trump’s ...