Ariz. Rep. Giffords in serious condition after Tucson shooting; eight others inj

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http://www.khou.com/

Breaking News
Giffords released from TIRR

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been released from Houston's TIRR, according to her staff. We'll have more details as they become available.
 

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http://www.khou.com/

Breaking News
Giffords released from TIRR

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been released from Houston's TIRR, according to her staff. We'll have more details as they become available.
 

Thanks for the update.  This is great news.  She looked good in the recent photos released too. 

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-07-23-loughner-tucson-shooting-suspect_n.htm
Documents: Loughner crying, pacing in prison cell
July 23, 2011

PHOENIX (AP) — Tucson shooting rampage suspect Jared Lee Loughner was put on a 24-hour suicide watch this month at a federal prison in Missouri after he asked a staff psychologist to kill him, federal prosecutors said in newly released court documents
A 24-page filing by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tucson also said prison staff report that Loughner has been pacing in circles near his cell door, screaming loudly, crying for hours at a time and claiming to hear messages from a radio.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday night denied an emergency motion by defense lawyers to keep prison officials from forcibly medicating Loughner with a psychotropic drug.
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Mental health experts have determined Loughner suffers from schizophrenia and are trying to make him psychologically fit to stand trial. Federal prosecutors claim Loughner should remain medicated because he may be a danger to himself and his mental and physical condition was rapidly deteriorating.

Loughner was forcibly medicated between June 21 and July 1 after prison officials determined his outbursts there posed a danger to others. He was given twice daily doses of Risperidone, a drug used for people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and severe behavior problems.

Prison officials stopped doing that on July 2 after the 9th Circuit granted his lawyers' request for a temporary stay of involuntary medication.
While being examined on July 8, Loughner said he was depressed, felt hopeless and "reported that the radio was talking to him and inserting thoughts into his mind," a staff psychologist said in the prosecutors' new filing.

Loughner was then put on suicide watch and prison staff said he displayed "bizarre" and "hyper sexed behavior" from July 8-12 along with an "inability to cope with grief, stress and severe anxiety."
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Records show the prison's medical and psychology staff feared Loughner's condition could worsen without immediate care and resumed medicating him on Tuesday.

Loughner's attorneys argued that his due-process rights were being violated and filed an emergency motion Thursday with the 9th Circuit, asking that the forced medication be stopped until his appeal is resolved.
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http://www.kvue.com/news/Giffords-now-knows-who-died-in-shooting-128119188.html
Giffords now knows who died in shooting
August 20, 2011

 A spokesman for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords says the Arizona congresswoman is aware of who was killed during the January shooting rampage in Tucson that left her seriously wounded.

The Arizona Republic reports that C.J. Karamargin confirmed Friday that the Democratic politician was told in late July the names of the dead, including aide Gabe Zimmerman, U.S. District Judge John Roll, and 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44296880/ns/us_news/#.TljkzWG8sng
Arizona shooting suspect's condition worsens
August 27, 2011

SAN DIEGO — The man accused in the Arizona shooting rampage kept himself awake for 50 hours straight after an appeals court stopped forced medication. He walked in circles until he developed sores and then declined antibiotics to treat an infected foot. Already thin, he stopped eating and shed nine pounds.

U.S. District Judge Larry Burns described Jared Lee Loughner's behavior to explain his refusal to overrule prison doctors who decided to resume forced medication July 18. The drugging, he said, "seems entirely appropriate and reasonable to me."

Loughner's attorneys argued unsuccessfully that a court should review whether the forcible medications could resume.

The ruling came in a three-hour pretrial hearing Friday that offered insights into Loughner's fragile condition at federal prison in Springfield, Mo., where he is on suicide watch.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/us-shooting-loughner-idUSTRE78L0GX20110922
Accused Tucson shooter, lawyers at odds over hearing
September 21, 2011

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Loughner, 23, was declared in May to be mentally incompetent to stand trial on charges he killed six people and wounded 13 others including Arizona Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in January.

U.S. District Court Judge Larry Burns has ordered Loughner to attend a hearing at federal court in Tucson next Wednesday to determine if prison doctors should be given more time to make him mentally fit to stand trial.

The differences between Loughner and his attorneys emerged in the transcript of a hearing Burns held earlier in the week.

Christina Pietz, a clinical psychologist treating Loughner at a federal prison hospital in Springfield, Missouri, testified that Loughner wanted to attend the September 28 hearing in his home town to be able to see his family.
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Loughner's attorney, Judy Clarke, meanwhile, argued that attendance at the hearing posed an "unnecessary risk" to her client, who is on suicide watch at the hospital in Springfield, and had been described as "gravely disabled."

Following the hearing, Burns ruled that Loughner must attend the hearing in Tucson on Wednesday that was set to decide on the extension prosecutors said was needed to restore his mental competency.

Prosecutors want another eight months to continue treating Loughner, who has been diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia. Loughner's defense team opposes any such extension.
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http://www.myfoxaustin.com/dpps/news/accused-tucson-shooter-jared-loughner-appears-in-court-dpgonc-20110928-to_15241875
Accused Tucson Shooter Jared Loughner Appears in Court for First Time Since May
September 28, 2011

(NewsCore) - The accused shooter in the January gun attack in Tucson that left six people dead and seriously wounded US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was in court Wednesday for the first time since May as a judge continued to weigh whether he is competent to stand trial.
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At issue is whether Loughner, 23, should be committed to the US Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., for an additional eight months in order for his mental condition to improve enough to stand trial. He faces 49 criminal counts for the shooting that killed six people and wounded 13.

Burns originally declared Loughner incompetent to stand trial and sent him to the Springfield, Mo., hospital in May following an in-court outburst by the defendant.

Dr. Christina Pietz, who has been meeting daily with Loughner since April, took the stand Wednesday to say she believed he could be rehabilitated in approximately eight months. She also said he had shown considerable improvement in communicating with her since a court allowed him to be forcibly medicated for his schizophrenia diagnosis.

Before being medicated, Loughner believed he had killed Giffords, Pietz said. She said he now knows that Giffords is alive and feels remorse about the people he killed.

Pietz also said Loughner no longer hears voices and understood the nature of Wednesday's competency hearing.
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/09/28/20110928loughner-mental-competency-hearing-tucson-brk28-ON.html
Loughner's detention extended for four more months
September 29, 2011

TUCSON - A federal judge ordered Jared Loughner to undergo four more months of mental-health treatment, saying it was possible for Loughner, the defendant in the Jan. 8 shooting rampage that left six dead, to be restored to mental competency and stand trial.

Loughner, 23, sat silently through a 7 1/2-hour hearing Wednesday in U.S. District Court, staring blankly ahead as his attorneys and experts discussed his ongoing treatment for schizophrenia. Loughner's expressionless look was a side effect of the drugs he has received for the past 60 days, according to testimony by experts.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-10-23/Giffords-therapy/50884744/1
Giffords heads to N.C. for intensive therapy
October 23, 2011

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., left Houston on Sunday for Asheville, N.C., where she will undergo two weeks of intensive therapy.
Giffords has been working with the therapist for several months already at TIRR Memorial Hermann hospital in Houston, where she is re-learning to walk and talk after she was shot in the head in a mass shooting in the parking lot of a Safeway store near Tucson on Jan. 8.

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Earlier this week, The Arizona Republic reported that Giffords reads aloud the final chapter in the audio edition of the memoir she penned with her husband, allowing people for the first time to hear for themselves how she is recovering.

Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope is scheduled for release Nov. 15.
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http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Giffords_Returns_To_Texas_After_Two_Weeks_Of_Therapy_133294453.html
Giffords Returns To Texas After Two Weeks Of Therapy
November 5, 2011

Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has returned to Texas after two-weeks of therapy as she continues to recover from a gunshot wound to the head.

TUCSON, Ariz. (November 5, 2011)--U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., has competed two weeks of intensive therapy sessions in North Carolina as she continues to recover from a gunshot wound to the head.

Giffords' office said the congresswoman returned to Houston Friday evening and will return to the intensive rehabilitation program at TIRR Memorial Hermann's outpatient facility.


Her staff says the trip to Asheville, N.C., was strictly rehabilitation-related and had been planned for several months, but no other specifics on her therapy were disclosed.

Staffers say Giffords arrived in North Carolina on Oct. 23 and began therapy sessions the following day.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57324738/giffords-wont-return-to-congress-til-better/
Giffords: Won't return to Congress until "better"
November 14, 2011

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Did anyone watch the interview with her and her husband last night? She has been through so much! She has a wonderful husband..their's is quite a love story

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-11-20/jared-loughner-life-revealed/51324480/1
Details of Loughner's life emerge from testimony, file
November 20, 2011

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This is awesome!

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Some helpful information about aphasia
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http://www.khou.com/news/Killing-of-bin-Laden-voted-top-news-story-of-2011-135791848.html
Killing of bin Laden voted top news story of 2011
December 17, 2011

NEW YORK -- The killing of Osama bin Laden during a raid by Navy SEALs on his hideout in Pakistan was the top news story of 2011, followed by Japan’s earthquake/tsunami/meltdown disaster, according to The Associated Press’ annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.
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(Voted #10 of top 10 news stories for 2011)
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS SHOT: The popular third-term congresswoman from Arizona suffered a severe brain injury when she and 18 other people were shot by a gunman as she met with constituents outside a Tucson supermarket in January. Six people died, and Giffords’ painstaking recovery is still in progress.

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http://www.khou.com/news/Giffords-survivors-to-commemorate-mass-shooting-in-Tucson-one-year-later-136398343.html
Gabrielle Giffords, survivors to commemorate mass shooting in Tucson
December 29, 2011

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/05/us-shooting-tucson-anniversary-idUSTRE80420Q20120105
Victims still healing a year after Tucson shooting
By Tim Gaynor and Brad Poole
January 5, 2012

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Sunday marks a year since a gunman fired a semi-automatic pistol into a crowd gathered at Giffords's "Congress on Your Corner" event last January 8, killing six people and wounding 13 others.
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Giffords plans to attend the candlelit vigil in Tucson on Sunday with her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, although it remains unclear if she will seek to resume her political career and run for re-election in November.

Loughner was found mentally incompetent to stand trial at a hearing in May and is being treated at a federal prison hospital in Missouri.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/us-shooting-arizona-loughner-idUSTRE80525J20120106
Legal road ahead uncertain for accused Tucson shooter
By David Schwartz
January 6, 2012

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http://www.foxnews.com/

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., announces she has "more work to do" on her recovery after an assassination attempt and will resign from her congressional seat this week