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NY Health Dept. Discriminated Against Mentally Ill By Barring Patients From Adult Homes: Judge NY Health Dept. Discriminated Against Mentally Ill By Barring Patients From Adult Homes: Judge
NY Health Dept. Discriminated Against Mentally Ill By Barring Patients From Adult Homes: Judge Adult care facilities in New York can no longer bar individuals suffering from serious mental illness, a judge has ruled. In her ruling Thursday, Oct. 6, Supreme Court Justice Gretchen Walsh said State Department of Health (DOH) regulations prohibiting certain adult homes from admitting those with serious mental illness discriminate against the mentally ill and violate the federal Fair Housing Act. The ruling was the culmination of a six-year lawsuit brought by Oceanview Manor Home for Adults, a privately-owned adult care facility in Coney Island that operates an assisted living program. …

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by Michael Mashburn
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Alert Issued For Man Who Went Missing From Long Island Veterans Center Alert Issued For Man Who Went Missing From Long Island Veterans Center
Alert Issued For Man Who Went Missing From Long Island Veterans Center A Silver Alert has been issued for a missing 56-year-old veteran who lives with a mental illness, according to police.  Perry Brown, of Patchogue, was last seen leaving the Northport Veterans Association Center on Thursday, Dec. 3 at approximately 3 p.m., but never returned to his home on Station Avenue, according to Suffolk County Police.  He is approximately 5-foot-8, weighs about 120 pounds and wears wire-rim glasses. Police said he may have left the hospital via bus.  Anyone with information on Brown's whereabouts is asked to call 911 or contact the Fifth Squad at 631-85…

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by Christina Coulter
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'It's Time To Surrender': Family Appeals To 23-Year-Old Ex-HS Athlete Wanted For Slayings 'It's Time To Surrender': Family Appeals To 23-Year-Old Ex-HS Athlete Wanted For Slayings
'It's Time To Surrender': Family Appeals To 23-Year-Old Ex-HS Athlete Wanted For Slayings The family of a college senior who played varsity football in Fairfield County and who is the subject of a massive search by law enforcement for a string of slayings is asking him to surrender. Police began searching for the University of Connecticut student Peter Manfredonia, 23, after State Police say that he was seen leaving the scene of the brutal murder of Thomas DeMers in Willington, on Friday, May 22. Manfredonia, a 2015 Newtown High School grad, is also wanted in connection with another homicide, a kidnapping and home invasion, and a violent assault.  He was last seen Sunday, May …

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by Kathy Reakes