| State to probe care at Yountville veterans home
A legislative committee on Wednesday ordered the state auditor to investigate the nation's oldest and largest veterans home after residents and employees at the Yountville facility registered numerous complaints about the quality of service attributed mainly to understaffing. State Sen. Patricia Wiggins, D-Santa Rosa, said she requested the audit after her office received about 100 pages of letters complaining about the level of care at the Veterans Home of California at Yountville, a 123-year-old, state-run facility that includes a hospital and houses about 1,100 residents. One letter came from Ron Muzio, a disabled Korean War veteran who has lived at the Yountville home for eight years followed by five years at the hospital. "When you enter the grounds at Yountville, they look beautiful, but when you enter the hospital, it's a different story," Muzio told members of the Joint Legislative Audit committee during a hearing Wednesday.
Lohan gets 1 day, Richie 1 hour-plus
Lindsay Lohan reached a plea deal yesterday on misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine charges that calls for her to spend one day in jail, serve 10 days of community service, and complete a drug treatment program. Nicole Richie, meanwhile, was released from jail after serving 82 minutes of a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs. Richie, was released from jail in Lynwood, Calif., "based on her sentence and federal guidelines," Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Maribel Rizo said without elaborating. When asked whether Richie, who is four months pregnant, spent her sentence in a jail cell, Rizo replied: "I have no further comment." Sheriff's spokeswoman Kerri Webb said Richie, who arrived at jail with her attorney and her boyfriend, Joel Madden, "was processed into the jail system, she was highly cooperative, and she was released." As for Lohan, she was placed on 36 months probation and required to complete an 18-month alcohol education program, pay hundreds of dollars in fines, and complete a program in which she'll talk to victims of drunken drivers and visit a morgue.
Evacuee-specific services closing
In the months after Hurricane Katrina, new programs, social service agencies and grants flowed into northwest Louisiana following thousands of people who left south Louisiana.
Only a few of those programs remain. And the last of them will expire in the coming months, a result of the programs' success and partly because funding was only meant to last 18 to 24 months.
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Keiser University Marks a Milestone With $1 Million in Scholarships
The recipients of Keiser University's statewide $1 Million Community Partnership Scholarship program include 20 first-generation college students, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescue swimmer, a sheriff's deputy, a police officer, a nurse intern, single parents and many more deserving students. .
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