Prosecutors have filed drug-related charges against six employees of a nursing home. According to the office of the State Bureau of Narcotics, the employees are accused of calling in fraudulent prescriptions to pharmacies to obtain powerful pain medications.  Officials say there is no evidence any residents were deprived of their medications, only that additional, fraudulent prescriptions were being called in. The employees would then sell the medication on the street.

An resident of an assisted living facility who went missing Tuesday night has been found unharmed. On Tuesday night the woman wandered away for the assisted living facility where she was a resident. Police issued a statement asking for the community to help locate the 79-year-old woman.

A nursing home ordered to close earlier this year is now facing multiple lawsuits from the families of former patients. The facility closed its doors after losing its Medicare and Medicaid funding due to violations with the State Department of Health. The family of one resident filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that her death was caused by neglect and poor hygiene.

A woman has admitted she stole money from residents at the nursing home where she worked. According to the state  Attorney General’s office, the woman pleaded guilty to two felony counts of stealing from a resident trust account at the nursing home where she worked as a bookkeeper. The former nursing home employee was ordered to repay more than $37,000 and was sentenced to two consecutive five year sentences.

Hundreds of thousands of area residents spent Saturday removing fallen trees from yards and streets, keeping cool in  movie theaters, and searching for open gas stations or outlets to charge their cellphones. A line of strong summer storms whipped across the region Friday night, leaving millions of homes an d businesses without power and causing multiple deaths. An Alexandria man, whose boat capsized in the Chesapeake Bay was missing and believed to have drowned.

A nursing home employee was arrested last week after being accused of stealing pain medications from residents. According to court records, the woman has been charged with a misdemeanor count of prohibited acts with prescription drugs. Police have acknowledged the the woman is being charged with taking about 250 pills.