Today's Globe: teen eating, addicts sent to jail, Beverly CEO rebuff, Rotenberg records, Haleigh Poutre documents, heart implants, Alzheimer's plea, baby-bottle chemical, Scott Miller

Despite widespread concern about the burgeoning waistline of America's teenagers, Massachusetts adolescents last year ate no better than they did six years earlier, while remaining glued to their televisions and computers.

Tina Wambolt (left, with her mother, Christina DaCruz) knew she needed help battling her alcoholism. What she didn't need were strip searches and a cell in the Framingham women's prison. Wambolt, 33, of Ashby, fell through a crack in the Massachusetts legal system, into a gap that routinely sends women with serious alcohol or substance abuse problems to the women's state prison when no beds are available in treatment facilities.

In a private meeting, doctors at Beverly Hospital have taken a vote of no confidence in its chief executive, Stephen R. Laverty (left), citing frustration with his management.

State Police seized documents late last week from the offices of the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton that are related to a prank phone call last summer that led two students to wrongfully receive dozens of punishing electrical shocks, according to two people with direct knowledge of the investigation.

Lawyers for the biological mother of 14-year-old Haleigh Poutre (left), who nearly died in her adoptive home from alleged child abuse, yesterday asked a Suffolk County Superior Court judge to force state officials to turn over two key documents that they say will show the girl was wrongfully removed from her first home.

People with implanted heart devices need closer follow-up care, an international panel of heart specialists recommended yesterday in the first guidelines for monitoring this rapidly growing group of patients.

The first woman on the Supreme Court is now the nation's most prominent Alzheimer's caregiver. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (left) made public her family's private battle with the mind-destroying illness yesterday as she urged Congress to speed research in hopes of slowing a coming epidemic.

The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday said that it sees no reason to tell consumers to stop using products such as baby bottles made with bisphenol A, or BPA, a controversial chemical found in many plastic items.

Scott Miller (left) never complained about the disease he endured since birth, a rare genetic metabolic disorder that at the time was fatal to most of its victims by the age of 5. Mr. Miller, who with his brother underwent tests and treatments that doctors say benefited thousands of others with glycogen storage disease, died April 24 of complications of the disease. He was 40 and had lived in Newton.