A state committee tasked with evaluating New Hampshire’s disability care system has launched a formal review and scheduled a ...

HITCHCOCK, Texas (KTRK) -- When police had to make the family notification after a 45-year-old man with an intellectual disability died in the hospital, the man's mother, who's accused of allowing her ...

HITCHCOCK, Texas (KTRK) -- A 45-year-old man with an intellectual disability may have been neglected to the point where he weighed 70 pounds and had multiple disfigurements, including flesh rot and ...

Group home operators serving people with autism and other developmental disabilities would face fines for the first time in ...

Larry Brantley Jr. was arrested after TBI agents found evidence that he was involved with the abuse of a TennCare patient ...

ABLE NH, a New Hampshire-based disability advocacy organization, is planning a vigil on the State House lawn in Concord ...

A video recorded at a Dunbarton care home for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in February 2019 captured caretakers pinning Lucas Houle to the ground and slapping him repeatedly ...

When a recent audit of the S.C. Department of Disabilities and Special Needs uncovered lax abuse investigations and flawed hiring practices at the agency that cares for some of our state’s most ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Eight employees were indicted last month on accusations of patient abuse and evidence tampering at a state-run facility for adults with intellectual disabilities. One man is accused ...

GENEVA, Ill. (WKRC) - A man was sentenced to decades in prison for impregnating a woman with a "severe or profound intellectual disability" who was not able to give consent. According to a release ...

For the past five years, Nick Battiola called his Disability Rights Wisconsin victim advocate, Pam Malin, any time he felt on the verge of a breakdown, whenever memories of the caregiver who became ...

Pulaski County Elections Board prepares for 'challenging but exciting' HD 70 election The Pulaski County Election Board has certified the final results of last Tuesday’s special Democratic primary ...