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A man has been committed indefinitely to a psychiatric hospital for killing his partner and her father in a knife attack.Achilleas Costa, 53, of no fixed address, stabbed Fernanda Assis, 31, and Joanilson Souza De Assis, 61, to death.The stabbing took place in Wood Green, north London, on 27 November 2021.

A 54-year-old man has been committed indefinitely to a psychiatric hospital for killing his partner and her father in a knife attack after believing that they had turned into "replicas".Achilleas Costa, of no fixed address, stabbed Fernanda Assis, 31, and Joanilson Souza De Assis, 61, to death in Wood Green, north London, on November 27, 2021.

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London is getting a new village, and it's named Springfield.No, it's not going to be full of yellow, googly-eyed cartoons - Springfield Village, in Tooting, is being called the 'biggest urban development' since the Olympic stadium was built for the 2012 games.

There is just not enough time to put a new system in place to protect vulnerable people if the Metropolitan Police press ahead with plans to stop attending emergency mental health incidents, the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) has warned.The force's commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has written to health and social care services to say police will no longer attend after August 31 unless there is a threat to life.

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For 25 years, one of at least four women murdered by Wayne Adam Ford in California remained unidentified.The admitted serial killer turned himself in to authorities in November 1998, carrying a Bible and the severed body part of one of his victims in a plastic bag.

Supporters argue a treatment plan developed through CARE Court will be less restrictive than alternatives, such as state hospitalization or conservatorship.To qualify, an individual must be 18 years or older, diagnosed with schizophrenia or another psychotic disorder, deemed likely to benefit from a supervised treatment plan and found to be at risk of harming themselves or others.

For the first time in years, Steven Styne has a roof over his head.The 52-year-old has been homeless on and off since 2014, when he lost his apartment in West Hollywood.During the pandemic he tried to find housing for his mother and himself, but those plans fell through.Then, a driver crashed into the SUV he had been living in and totaled it.

Rosalynn Carter, the former first lady of the United States and wife of former President Jimmy Carter, has dementia, the Carter Center announced on Tuesday.The Carter family is sharing that former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia.She continues to live happily at home with her husband, enjoying spring in Plains and visits with loved ones, the center announced.

Maryland Rep. David Trone, who's poured millions of his own money into his congressional campaigns, is announcing his Senate candidacy on Thursday, accelerating what will likely be a competitive Democratic primary for the seat of retiring Sen. Ben Cardin.His announcement video opens with a ticking clock and Trone rattling off statistics about deaths from overdoses and mental illness and racial inequity in the criminal justice system.

At the opening of the video, the audio is strangely muffled.Juan Alberto Vazquez, the freelance journalist who captured the footage, begins recording from outside the train car where Daniel Penny has a 30-year-old homeless man named Jordan Neely in a chokehold.A couple of other passengers help restrain Neely, making sure he cannot wrestle free.

When Mayor Eric Adams began to talk frequently about God a few months back how God elevated him to lead New York City, how Mr. Adams implemented policy with a godlike approach, how the separation of church and state was misguided his timing was no accident.He was, he says, responding to the same divine voice he heard decades ago, the one that he says prophesied that he would become mayor on Jan. 1, 2022.

Julia Quinn doesn't get many calls from Shonda Rhimes, so she was pretty excited to pick up the phone when it rang last year, and even more excited when Rhimes gave her the news: Thanks to the success of Bridgerton, the hit TV show based on Quinn's books, Netflix had greenlit a prequel series about one of the franchise's scene-stealers, Queen Charlotte.

As far as descriptions of writers go, humorist has an old-fashioned, almost quaint ring to it, the literary equivalent of haberdasher or lamplighter.But across four book-length collections the newest is the best seller Quietly Hostile Samantha Irby has always brought scabrously honest, never pat and, it must be said, operatically scatological vivacity to the humorous literary essay.

During the Trump presidency, one of the strongest currents in our culture was the struggle for social justice, from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter to the recognition of proliferating gender identities.Now, one of the strongest currents is the backlash to all of that.Resentment of strident progressive politics unites the hapless CNN chief Chris Licht, who complained, in an Atlantic profile, that the network had been producing too much anti-Trump outrage porn, and the louche British rock star (and reputed Taylor Swift ex-boyfriend) Matty Healy, who complained, in a New Yorker profile, that artists are now expected to be liberal academics.

With her withering glares and colossal wigs, Queen Charlotte has become a treasured character in the first two seasons of Bridgerton, the steamy hit Netflix series set in an alternate, racially diverse version of Regency Era Britain.As played by Golda Rosheuvel, she is a hard-line matriarch with an ear for gossip and an eye for beauty.

Image Connie Chung, center, is one of the most famous Asian women in the U.S. Credit...Connie Aramaki for The New York Times To the Editor: Re I Got My Name From Connie Chung.So Did They, by Connie Wang (Opinion guest essay, May 14), about the many Asian women named after the TV journalist: It feels strange to know that there are so many Asian Connies out there, all close in age range in our 30s and 40s.

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Students who attend an Uncommon Schools high school get access to a wide variety of classes in the typical subjects.But they also get lessons on how to ensure their college dreams are paid for-almost entirely without debt.As early as 10th grade, students at Uncommon's four Brooklyn high schools are learning about the financial aid forms, how to maximize scholarships and how to pick dream schools that will help ensure students can make it all the way through college.

I read about Liam in a newspaper report.He had been arrested over the weekend for being an inebriated pedestrian and was sent to court.There he yelled profanities at the judge, including the f-word.He was warned but continued, ever louder, ever more profane.With each outburst the twenty-four-year-old was sentenced an additional two weeks over his originally brief overnight detention.

Nearly seven years after police told them their son would never come home, the family of Soleiman Faqiri might finally learn the answers to the questions that have haunted them since his death in an Ontario jail cell.In a notice to the family, Ontario's chief coroner office has indicated an inquest will begin Nov. 20 to examine the 30-year-old's death at the Central East Correctional Centre while he awaited a bed at a mental health facility.

Decked out in black bow tie, dress shirt, and worn leather jacket, Ben Barnes regularly greets commuters at the 16th and Mission BART station with his sweeping violin melodies."I'm a performer," said the 52-year-old musician."What brings me out here is playing in front of an audience, in front of people."

When the British vocalist Elaine Mitchener performs Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King at Wigmore Hall in London on Friday, a lot will be on her mind: the complex psychology of the work's central character, the piece's rich performing history and its sensitive perspective on mental health.

A Labour government would reverse the rise in the number of deaths from suicide as part of a health plan to replace pain and anxiety with a hope of a renewed NHS, Keir Starmer will pledge.In a speech on Monday, the Labour leader will say his plan for reforming the NHS will focus on the biggest causes of death in the UK including suicide.

State charges including attempted murder have been dismissed against a woman accused of stabbing an Indiana University student of Chinese descent on a public bus, court records show.Billie R. Davis, 56, of Bloomington, who is white, still faces a federal hate crime charge in the stabbing of the 18-year-old woman with a folding knife on Jan. 11.

"To access the hub, go to the #MentalHealthAwareness hashtag page and tap on the link in the description of the hub to explore.It will be continually updated throughout May to highlight new educational and inspiring videos, mental health and wellness-centered creators, and organizations dedicated to raising awareness about mental health.

CNN will continue its Fox News tilt this Sunday night with an hour-long special called What Happened to San Francisco?' a mini-documentary determined to push the failed city narrative.It's fair to wonder lately, What Happened to CNN? From their universally panned Trump town hall Wednesday night, to their inability to figure out what to do with the prime-time 6 p.m. PT slot after they were forced to fire the wildly unqualified but nepotistically connected Chris Cuomo, CNN lately seems, how would Don Lemon put it, past their prime.

Adults in their 20s and 30s with mental disorders have a higher chance of having a heart attack or stroke, according to a new study.The study published Monday in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology looked at the health data of more than 6.5 million people through the Korean National Health Insurance Service database.