NEWS
February 12, 2011 | By Kathleen Brady Shea, Inquirer Staff Writer
Mystery lingers about a Chester County nurse and mother who left a party at a 76er player's home in Penn Valley on Aug. 23, 2009, and vanished. Now, a TV show is taking up the case - and its dearth of clues. An episode of Disappeared on the Investigation Discovery network at 9 p.m. Monday will explore the mystery of Toni Lee Sharpless, who was 29 when she planned a night on the town and never returned. "I just hope this reaches the right people, and our daughter is brought home to us," said Sharpless' mother, Donna S. Knebel.
NEWS
August 28, 2003 | By Jacqueline Soteropoulos INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Jerry Chambers, charged with murder in the beating, suffocation and starvation of 3-year-old Porchia Bennett, said in court yesterday that he suffers from bipolar disorder, a mental illness his attorney could later use as part of the defense. "Obviously, that will have some impact on which way we're going to go," defense lawyer Charles P. Mirarchi 3d told reporters. "He maintains his innocence at this point. " At yesterday's brief scheduling hearing, Assistant District Attorney Richard Sax told the judge he needed two days in which to present evidence at a preliminary hearing for Chambers and his girlfriend, Candice Geiger, who is Porchia's aunt and took care of the child and her three older sisters for nearly a year.
NEWS
November 26, 2006 | By Rusty Pray INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
When fabric artist Carolyn Lee Vehslage began creating computer collages, she intended them to represent her frustrations with computers and as a study of technology's impact on all of us. But the more she worked on them, the more the former computer network engineer began to understand that they represented "more than a discussion of technology and how it complicates our lives. " "I finally realized they resonated so much with me because they reflected my bipolar disorder, which I've had all my life.
NEWS
February 28, 1997 | By Douglas Herbert, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
A 33-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to stealing $54,733 while serving as treasurer of a Radnor elementary school's parent-teacher organization has been sentenced in Delaware County Court to five consecutive weekends in prison and ordered to pay full restitution. Judge Frank T. Hazel's sentencing of Elaine D. Sauerteig of Malvern came more than six months after her arrest Aug. 2 on charges of pilfering money from Ithan Elementary School's events fund from August 1995 to June 1996.
NEWS
June 1, 2005 | By Stacey Burling INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Before his fifth birthday, Jeri Turrin's happy, playful son turned frustrated, disruptive - full of mad energy. He'd race from one end of the house to the other, jumping off the banister because he thought he could fly. His mother feared his horrible rages. "He would punch me so hard I would throw up," the Columbus, N.J., woman said. A doctor thought that Bradley had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but the Ritalin he prescribed made the boy hallucinate. At 6, Bradley drew his own gravestone and wrote, "I want to die. " Jeri Turrin learned that her son had a mental illness doctors once thought kids couldn't have: bipolar disorder.
LIVING
September 5, 1997 | By Paddy Noyes, FOR THE INQUIRER
"Everybody deserves a place of his own, where he's wanted. And that sure includes Michael," his foster mother says. "Some of his problems are different," she continues, "but the satisfaction of knowing he's being cared for and loved makes it worth the extra effort. " Michael, 13, was a premature baby and weighed only 3 pounds at birth. His social worker says neglect and abuse in his background could be a factor in his disabilities. He is not verbal, and has cerebral palsy, a nonprogressive muscle condition.
NEWS
October 11, 2001 | By Ralph Vigoda INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The mental-health defense planned by former U.S. Rep. Edward Mezvinsky to explain why he defrauded friends, family and institutions of more than $10 million is not supported by evidence and should not be heard at his trial next year, the U.S. Attorney's Office said yesterday. In a 59-page motion filed yesterday, prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell to bar the testimony of four experts who concluded that Mezvinsky's physical and mental health likely suffered because of his use of the anti-malaria drug Lariam.
NEWS
April 25, 2012 | Tirdad Derakhshani
More members of the Kardashian Horde have exited the nest to begin feasting on the culture. USA Today says Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner's youngest daughters, Kendall, 16, and Kylie, 14, are joining Kim, Kris, and Khloé's deadly takeover of the kollective konsciousness. The teens have landed jobs as, um, journalists. They've been named West Coast fashion contributors to Seventeen mag. "Kendall & Kylie's Fashion Journal" debuts in the June/July issue and features the latest fashion and beauty tips, the mag says.
NEWS
May 3, 2011
The sentencing of Tony Young, a Chester County investment manager who pleaded guilty to defrauding investors of $23 million, was postponed to Thursday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. It had been scheduled for this morning at 9 a.m., but was moved back because a psychological evaluation of Young, ordered by U.S. District Judge Juan R. Sanchez, was not yet ready. A neuropsychologist, Barry M. Crown, testified at a hearing last week that Young had bipolar disorder and an organic form of brain damage from falling off his polo pony and from motorcycle accidents.
NEWS
February 11, 1999 | By Bill Ordine, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A Philadelphia physician pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to racketeering in connection with insurance fraud, illegal dispensing of prescription drugs, and sales of drug samples. Natawadee Steinhouse, 55, of Laverock, Montgomery County, who operated three offices in Philadelphia, was indicted in September and charged with submitting $1 million in fraudulent claims to health insurers. She also was accused of illegally issuing prescriptions for drugs, including painkillers, to addicts from 1989 to 1994.