House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi has appointed state Rep. Charles A. Murphy, Burlington-D, to a special commission to investigate the effects of combat stress on the mental health of Massachusetts veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Murphy’s app

LAS CRUCES — A third of the inmates in the Doña Ana County Detention Center are in need of mental health services, according to the county, but the closest place for them to be treated is a $5,000 trip away at the state's institute in Las Vegas.

SUNY Upstate Medical University is starting a new nurse practitioner program designed to help alleviate a severe shortage of mental health services in rural areas of Central New York and other parts of the state.

Victims' families asked court she be held indefinitely A mentally ill woman who started a fire that killed four people in a Wrigleyville apartment building last year was ordered held indefinitely in a state mental health facility on Monday.

WOODSTOCK – The county's Mental Health Court received a $300 donation from a county mental health agency to help subsidize its continuing operation.