Butner News

Police in Wake Forest have arrested a Raleigh man on charges of having sex with an underage girl.

It seems that almost every week brings another jarring revelation from this state's flawed mental health-care system.

When N.C. State University junior Dan Marino walks around the vast campus of Dorothea Dix Hospital, he doesn't picture filling this space with office buildings or townhouses.

As legislators finish work on a budget that almost surely won't contain enough money to correct the state's failed overhaul of its mental health-care system, they should consider how much the broken system endangers both the mentally ill and the people who battle endless red tape as they try to help them.

The State Bureau of Investigation has been asked to review allegations that employees at a state mental hospital in Butner used a cell phone to take nude photos of at least one patient.

Psychiatrists at federal prison have found a Mount Croghan teen accused of plotting to blow up Chesterfield High School last year competent to stand trial, refuting his lawyers' claims that he may be insane.

Authorities are searching for a juvenile who escaped custody while on a home visit.

Local leaders were still trying Tuesday to determine how much the cuts in a proposed state budget would hurt Wilson and Wilson County.

It was 1 a.m. Wednesday of last week when Wake County's mental health crisis center closed the doors and left a sign outside directing those in need to go to area emergency rooms or the private Holly Hill psychiatric hospital, where the county has a contract to serve the uninsured and those on Medicare and Medicaid.

For the first time in its history, Wake County's mental health crisis and assessment unit had to shut its doors earlier this week and turn clients away because it had more people needing help than it could safely handle.

The Robert F. Hoke Chapter No. 78 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy conducted a 100th anniversary observance of the Rowan Confederate Monument May 9 in the Stanback Auditorium of the Rowan Public Library.

Mint Hill was one of 12 municipalities in North Carolina awarded a bicycle and pedestrian planning grant from the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

Former North Platte dentist Thomas Miller has been committed to the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C., after a competency hearing stemming from federal tax fraud charges.

Downtown needs a new entity to give it some tender loving care, according to the downtown master plan scheduled to be considered by City Council on Tuesday.

Published: Friday, May 8, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 6:38 p.m. Historic Downtown Hendersonville will host 'A Slice of Hendersonville,' the 2009 Public Art Display Project, starting Saturday.

The former Mayor of Oswego has been released from a North Carolina prison. John Gosek was serving a 37 month sentence for soliciting sex from minors.

Former Buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Medford will spend his state pension on a $260,000 legal bill, a judge ruled Friday.

Editor's Note: To protect their privacy, some children are not named in this story.

Posted: Today at 5:24 p.m. Updated: Today at 6:53 p.m. Butner, N.C. - The state mental health facility in Raleigh formerly known as Dorothea Dix Hospital will continue to provide limited care for at least the next three years to patients of Central Regional Hospital, the state's new psychiatric hospital.

Published: Friday, March 27, 2009 at 7:03 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, March 27, 2009 at 7:03 p.m. Federal regulators say a North Carolina mental hospital is no longer in danger of losing federal funding following an investigation into a patient's attempted suicide.