Central State Hospital News

The deaf-mute man accused of raping and murdering a James City County teen in 2005 is making progress with his communications skills, a prosecutor says.

For the first time in three and a half years, former Barnesville municipal judge Henry Abreu is a free man and no longer under the supervision of the criminal justice system.

Central State Hospital says it's temporarily stopped accepting new patients. Tom Wilson with the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities says the hospital is on diversion.

Georgia's state-run psychiatric hospitals continue to have serious problems, and a recent Department of Justice visit to the largest facility - Central State Hospital in Milledgeville - led the hospital to stop taking new patients indefinitely.

As the leaves fall and we prepare our homes for Thanksgiving and the upcoming holiday season, you may not be aware that there are several thousand citizens whose only home is one of Georgia's seven regional mental health hospitals.

As the leaves fall and we prepare our homes for Thanksgiving and the upcoming holiday season, you may not be aware that there are several thousand citizens whose only home is one of Georgiaa s seven regional mental health hospitals.

The man who walked into Burghard Elementary School last week and assaulted the school's principal is under observation at Central State Hospital, Bibb school officials said today.

Milledgeville is often associated with its architecture, and recently two notable local structures - the Sallie Davis House last year and Central State Hospital just this week - have received support in an effort to preserve them for generations to come.

Of the four historic sites in Middle Georgia that were named to the Places In Peril list, Central State Hospital in Milledgeville may be the most significant.

The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation has published its 2010 list of 10 Places in Peril in the state, and the list includes two well-known Atlanta sites.

By JIM TALBERT\Staff TAZEWELL - Charges of manslaughter, use of a firearm in commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and shooting into an occupied dwelling house were certified to grand jury Nov.

The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation has placed Dorchester Academy in Liberty County on its list of most endangered places in the state.

An historic preservation group says four Central Georgia places are "in peril." They're on the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation's 2010 list of the state's ten places in peril.

Although the late Peter G. Cranford of Augusta was more famous as the developer of the game show "The $64,000 Question," he also served in the early 1950s as the first clinical psychologist at Central State Hospital in Milledgeville.

A LARGE crowd of shocked health workers flocked to the Nurses' Home at the Central State Hospital yesterday as news of a colleague's murder spread.

Accused murderer Justin Shane Slater is competent to stand trial after less than a month of treatment, according to state mental facility officials.

A man charged with raping a missing 10-year-old girl twice during the two days Roanoke police spent searching for her last year is mentally unfit to stand trial, a psychiatrist testified Tuesday.

The Indiana Medical History Museum is a unique, inspiring place. Hidden in the heart of Indianapolis, it is located in the Old Pathology Building on the grounds of the former Central State Hospital.

It's a brand new world for book readers in this digital age. Those were the words David Chu, 62, of Midlothian used yesterday to describe his tour of the 74-foot Digital Bookmobile parked at the Chesterfield County's Central Library parking lot.

CONSTRUCTION work in the Central State Hospital's kitchen has been compromising patients' health for almost a month, since food is being prepared there despite the renovations.