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All state senators and representatives from the West Suburban area (Belmont, Brookline, Needham, Newton, Waltham, Watertown, Wellesley and Weston) have been invited.

For more information or to R.S.V.P., call Kristine Taylor, partnership co-chairwoman, at Cabot Park Village at 617-965-7707.

Rush announces office hours for April Rep.

Michael F.

Rush, D-West Roxbury, announces that he will host district office hours for April at the following times and locations: Wednesday, April 5, at the Roche Bros.

Cafe area from 9 to 10 a.m.

Wednesday, April 12, at Starbucks, Route 9, Chestnut Hill Village, from 9 to 10 a.m.

Wednesday, April 19, at the Roche Bros.

Cafe area from 9 to 10 a.m.

Wednesday, April 26, at Starbucks, Route 9, Chestnut Hill Village, from 9 to 10 a.m.

Rush is also available at the State House in Boston, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m., by appointment.

For more information, call legislative aide Matt Fitzgerald at 617-722-2210.

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...ba href=/dementia/a/b - was charged with murder in the death of 77-year-old Norbert Konwin.

He was being held on the medical floor of the Lucas County jail on a $500,000 bond after arraignment yesterday in Toledo Municipal Court.

Mr.

Hawkins is accused of hitting Mr.

Konwin with a bathroom towel bar in their room March 10 at Foundation Park Care Center, 1621 South Byrne Rd.

Mr.

Konwin sustained fractured ribs, a fractured nose, and a collapsed lung and was hospitalized for four days.

He was returned to Foundation Park, where he died Friday.

Sara Morman, an Ohio Department of Health spokesman, said yesterday it is against state code that Foundation Park didn't notify her agency of the assault and it could be cited for failing to do so.

The agency first learned of the assault through a complaint March 20 and is continuing to investigate the matter.

In cases of abuse, Ms.

Morman said a licensed facility is required to notify the resident's physician and sponsor (such as a family member), the state health department, and the facility administrator.

She said the state health department had not received a report from Foundation Park about the assault as of yesterday.

Ms.

Morman said there is nothing in state law that specifically states facilities have to notify local authorities, but they should follow their own written procedures in a case of abuse.

"So if it's in their written notification policy that they have to contact local authorities and they didn't do that, that is something [the heal...