Adolf Hitler Taken From Parents

According to New Jersey police, the state's Division of Youth and Family Services took Adolf Hitler and his two sisters, one-year-old Joyce Lynn Aryan Nation Campbell and 8-month-old Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, from their parents' home.

Little Hilter and his parents got their first fifteen minutes of fame after a New Jersey supermarket refused to put his name on a birthday cake.

The reason why authorities took the children is unclear.

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Judges Will Take Pay Cuts

More than 60 percent of Connecticut’s 117 probate court judges would take pay cuts totaling $2.1 million across four years under a plan offered by judges to stabilize probate finances.

Probate Court Administrator Paul J. Knierim outlined a four-point plan that also would encourage voluntary consolidation of probate districts, centralize oversight of individual court budgets, and establish a probate appellate system to hear appeals.

The plan, endorsed by more than 80 percent of the Probate Court Assembly, also seeks a $5 million bailout from the state’s General Fund to stabilize a statewide probate system deficit.

Knierim: “The judges took a hard look at the system."

Shelton Probate Judge Fred J. Anthony, president-judge of the assembly: “The probate judges understand the depth and complexity of this crisis and have proposed a realistic, cost-effective way to resolve it.”

Probate judges are elected to four-year terms by voters in the towns they serve. Besides helping families settle estates, probate courts make decisions about guardianships for the mentally ill or mentally retarded, whether to commit such patients, and about termination of parental rights.

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Man Missing - Blood Found

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Wichita Police Department detectives were notified by Harvey County Sheriff's Office deputies that they had located the vehicle belonging to Mr. Marcus Booker. Mr. Booker, who had been missing since Saturday, January 17th, was deceased inside his vehicle on a county road north and west of Hesston. WPD homicide detectives who traveled to the scene say foul play is not suspected. Both Wichita Police detectives and deputies from the Harvey County Sheriff's Office continue their investigation into his death.
Missing Man Found Deceased in Car

KS - Police are asking for the public's help in finding a 30-year-old man who hasn't been seen since January 17th.

Police say Marcus Booker last contacted his family in the afternoon on the 17th when he sent a text message to them indicating that he might harm himself.

A man fitting his description was seen that same day at the Kechi Township Cemetery in the 6500 block of N. Hillside. Kechi police officers found blood at the grave of Booker's grandmother.

A Harvey County Sheriff's Deputy was dispatched to a field north of Newton where someone found a cell phone which belongs to Booker.

Anyone with information on Booker's location is asked to call the Wichita Police Department at 316-268-4181, or Crime Stoppers at 316-267-2111 or 800-222-TIPS.

Tips can also be sent via cell phone text message by texting the word TIP217 followed by the tip to the number 274637 (CRIMES), or by submitting a tip online at the Crime Stoppers website, http://www.wsccs.com/

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Magellan Won't Pay

One and a half years before Robert Hawkins' mass murder and suicide at Von Maur, a counselor recommended sending the troubled teen to a locked psychiatric treatment center.

But the state's Medicaid administrator refused to authorize the treatment.

Hawkins never went.

That denial shows how hard it can be to get children mental health treatment through the state's Medicaid managed-care program, created to contain taxpayer costs.

Some troubled children worsen as they wait for treatment or get less intensive, less expensive treatment than recommended by mental health professionals who evaluate them.

The public would be alarmed if children with physical ailments were treated this way, said Douglas County Juvenile Court Judge Vernon Daniels.

Daniels: "Look at this as a cancer that is growing, and you're not administering treatment that could slow the growth or stop the growth. That's what's happening here."

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services pays a for-profit company, Magellan Behavioral Health, to authorize mental health services for more than 25,000 state wards, low-income or disabled children. Some middle-class children become wards to get services their insurance won't cover.

Magellan spokeswoman Tami Schmidt: "Our role is to help people to get access to services, despite that people think in some cases we're a barrier."

Magellan serves as an HMO, deciding which medical services to give patients.

The reason?
Magellan denied 14 percent of requests for all long-term residential programs in 2007, or 199 months of treatment.

It saved more than $1 million.

A guardian who has dealt with Magellan summarized the balance the company tries to strike: "They are hired to police our tax money, so they're penny pinchers. At the same time, the children who fall through the cracks are not receiving adequate care because Magellan won't pay for it."

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Theft by Swindle

Courtney Fultz's grandmother had already given Fultz her house in West St. Paul free and clear, according to court documents. Then the 33-year-old woman allegedly tried to get her grandmother's condo put in her name and took more than $77,000 from her grandmother's certificate of deposit.

Fultz is being prosecuted by the Ramsey County attorney's office's new elder abuse unit. She was charged Tuesday with felony theft by swindle. She is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 19.

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Trust Fund for Tortured Teen

A Sacramento judge gave a nonprofit law firm the go-ahead to start a trust fund for a teenager who in December escaped from a central Tracy home where he said he had been held prisoner for more than a year.

Donors from around the world have helped raise $34,000 for the boy identified in court records as Kyle R., who made headlines when he appeared bloodied, emaciated and shackled at In-Shape Health Club begging for help.

Sacramento County took protective custody of the 16-year-old boy, who has been a ward of the state since his mother died several years ago. His former legal guardian is one of his four alleged captors, who police say drugged him, beat him and chained him to a fireplace for as many as 18 months.

The teen is now one of 5,000 children in the care of Child Protective Services in Sacramento County.

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Vulnerable Adults Justice Project

Dozens of groups representing elderly Minnesotans are pushing for more awareness and tougher laws for elder abuse.

The Vulnerable Adults Justice Project lobbies for tougher laws for people who prey on elderly people. They hope to introduce new legislation by mid-February.

Leaders said the new legislation would be a comprehensive overview to the Vulnerable Adults Act which was first passed in 1980, and ask that the term "functional adult" be redefined.

People working on the legislation said they would also like to change the way endangered adults are looked for when they go missing. They would also like to see a uniform system for reporting crimes against elderly people.

The legislation being proposed would not require any additional state funding, as Minnesota is fighting a budget deficit. The public awareness campaign is being funded privately.

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Largest Qui Tam Settlement in U.S. History

Eli Lilly and Company announced it has agreed to plead guilty to criminal conduct and to pay more than 1.4 billion in criminal and civil fines, penalties and damages arising from allegations made in multiple whistleblower lawsuits that the pharmaceutical giant defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and other government-funded health care programs in connection with its market practices for its blockbuster atypical antipsychotic, Zyprexa. The settlement is the largest qui tam settlement in U.S. history.

Lilly engaged in a nationwide campaign to market Zyprexa off-label for untested and unapproved uses and, as part of that campaign, Lilly minimized and misrepresented the dangers of Zyprexa, placing company profits above the public safety according to two qui tam Complaints filed by whistleblower attorneys Brian Kenney and Tavy Deming.

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