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...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b after suffering a severe head injury in 1988 when a high-pressure pipe exploded at his workplace.

"I'm much cheerier and more positive."Nance also is a success story for Heritage Behavioral Health Center, as it prepares to celebrate 50 years of helping people with mental illness, which includes more than 35 years of treating chemical dependency."Last year, we touched more than 7,000 men, women and children," said Diana Knaebe, president and chief executive officer since 2002, "helping them turn lives that were often filled with fear, helplessness, hopelessness and despair - a living nightmare - into one of hope, where dreams again flourish."Many people living that kind of nightmare came before former Macon County Judge Gus T.

Greanias in court.

As a result, he was among the people who in 1955 organized the Macon County Mental Health Association, which in turn established the Mental Health Clinic of Macon County on March 1, 1956."The community was quite progressive for starting a community mental health clinic as early as they did," Knaebe said.

Renamed the Decatur Mental Health Center in 1970, it was given its current name of Heritage Behavioral Health Center when it moved from the Decatur Memorial Hospital campus to 151 N.

Main St.

in 1998.The center also has undergone other changes, growing from six employees and a budget of $31,000 in 1956 to 210 employees and a budget of more than $10 million today.It is the only mental health organization in the c...

...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b and that he is fine when on medication."We are now trying to determine what the proper medication is," Wolf said.

"Once he is on medication, we will withdraw the not-triable-by-mental-illness condition."Copyright © 2006 Associated Press.

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McGinnis is charged in Platte County Circuit Court with first-degree murder, forcible rape, first-degree burglary and two counts of armed criminal action.

He faces life in prison if convicted.

The Kansas City Star is not naming the homicide victim because his name would lead to the identity of his widow, the alleged rape victim.

The woman testified Friday that her husband initially did not want to go out with McGinnis the night of his murder.

But she told her husband that he should have a break.

So he grabbed four bottles of beer and said goodbye to his wife.

“He said, ‘I love you,’ and he gave me a kiss goodbye and he said, ‘I’ll see you in a little bit,’ ” the woman testified.

She said she woke up about two hours later with McGinnis yelling that she had to get out of bed because her husband had been arrested in a fight.

McGinnis left the house for a few moments.

He returned with a shotgun and a story about shooting three people, she said, and then he forced her into her bedroom.

The woman said McGinnis told her that he hadn’t had sex for more than a year, but that he was about to before going away for a long time.

Then he told the woman that her husband had not been arrested, but was bound with duct tape in the trunk of the car McGinnis was driving.

The woman said she screamed once until McGinnis reminded her that her son was in the house.

She later discovered the boy hiding.

The woman said McGinnis stoppe...