Ex-Teacher Ordered to Stay in Rehab

Commissioner wants judicial discretion, more community help to reduce prison population
With 60,000 state prisoners, 150,000 probationers and 13,000 state employees to manage every day, Commissioner of the Department of Corrections Brian Owens has one tough job. But in the 18 months…

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A Kent Proposal Meets Resistance
KENT—The Planning and Zoning Commission agreed last week to continue until July a hearing on an application from Midwestern Connecticut Council on Alcoholism, Inc. (MCCA) for a school/rehabilitation center for drug- and alcohol-dependent teenage girls.

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Ex-teacher ordered to stay in rehab
WOBURN — A former New Hampshire middle-school teacher was ordered to stay in rehab for her gambling addiction after pleading innocent to robbing banks in Concord and Tyngsboro last December. Gail Rasmussen, 49, of Brookline, N.

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