GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The man accused of killing his fiancée and her two sons in Grand Rapids late last month will undergo a competency evaluation. Charles Broomfield, 44, is charged with first ...

Exterior of Whiting Forensic Hospital on the grounds of Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown. The maximum-security hospital has up to 78 beds for patients needing competency restoration. Credit: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Brendan O'Brien WAUKESHA Wis. (Reuters) - One of two Wisconsin pre-teen girls accused of stabbing a friend to please the ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - A judge has ordered multiple mental health exams for Joshua Hite, the man accused of killing Isadora Wengel. The court wants to know if he is mentally fit to stand ...

Ivanna Ortiz pushed for a speedy evidentiary hearing on Wednesday as court filings surfaced claiming Rihanna heard the shots ...

Requests for mental evaluations for criminal defendants — commonly known as competency exams — are on the rise in Metro Detroit courts, creating a strain on the state mental health facility that ...

GOSHEN - Three months after a judge ordered a competency exam for a man charged with killing a fellow patient at the Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Center, doctors have yet to file an assessment.

FLINT (WWJ) - Mental exams have been ordered for three of five teenagers charged in the murder of a man struck by a rock on I-75 last month. The judge a second time denied bond for all five defendants ...

The Pontiac woman accused of leaving her three children to live in squalor had her bond revoked on Thursday after a judge ...