Earhart Flier Faces Nursing Home Fines

The businesswoman who flew a vintage airplane around the globe to complete the adventure Amelia Earhart never finished is fighting millions of dollars in violations found at one of the nursing homes she owns.

Linda Finch, 46, is scheduled for trial in September. State regulators said they found patients living in life-threatening conditions, with too few nurses and other staff.

Inspectors who visited the Dublin Nursing Center in 1994 said that patients had advanced bed sores and that some had lost large amounts of weight. The home is near Stephenville, about 60 miles from Fort Worth.

Separately, the Texas Department of Human Services has asked the state attorney general’s office to sue Finch for civil penalties connected to the death of a patient at another one of the four nursing homes she owns.