Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A registered nurse, Dina Lester left her job working for the state in part over concerns about its poor level of care (Anna ...

The bill would require the state Department of Developmental Services to provide parents or guardians with a report on allegations of abuse.

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The state is baring the history of generations of disabled people and the violence many faced while institutionalized.

United Counseling Service is paying the state $483,460 for failures in care for those with developmental disabilities who may pose a risk to themselves and the community.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A man was arrested after he allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman with a developmental disability from her Southeast Portland group home on Monday. Just before ...

A High Desert legislator introduced a bill this week that would legally designate the crime of rape of a developmentally disabled child as a violent felony in California. State Rep. Tom Lackey, ...

DIFFERENT FACILITY. AGAIN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? SOLOMON SANCHEZ IN HOT WATER. ONCE AGAIN, NO ONE TAKING YOU TO THE BATHROOM AFTER THE FORMER 20 YEAR OLD TEACHER PLED GUILTY TO ABUSE OF A SEVEN YEAR OLD ...

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. After Ronald Scheer was found suffocated to death by the straps of his own wheelchair, an autopsy determined his cause of death was ...

Scheer, a man with developmental disabilities and mobility issues who used a wheelchair, was living at the state-run St. Louis Developmental Disabilities Treatment Center in St. Charles in June 2020 ...