Suicide News

A Wichita man was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in a case where some of the prosecution's strongest testimony came from a man who committed suicide less than six weeks before the trial began.

The man found dead in south Naperville on Friday apparently took his own life, the Naperville Police Department said on Monday morning.

Authorities have not disclosed the identify of a Long Beach man who jumped to his death from the Vincent Thomas Bridge over the weekend.

A suicide charity is warning that the "culture of humiliation" in Ireland is pushing young men to take their own lives.

Five people died in a bungled bank robbery before the gunman took his own life in southern Israel this afternoon.

Three workers at a Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China, have committed suicide in the past three weeks, a French news agency , citing state media and a labor-rights group, reported Saturday.

Terry Lee Releford, who police were seeking in the the murder of a woman on Lovell Road on Sunday, has committed suicide.

The 71 homicides that marked a grim record in the city of Stockton last year was reflected in the tally of homicides in the annual report from the county Coroner's Office.

The Lawrence County Sheriff's Department says the body of a young woman has been found in the Black River but her name is not yet known.

The New York Times reports: In the 1990s, the suicide rate dipped with the crime rate.

A WINCHESTER man with a history of depression and suicide attempts died at St Catherine's Hill, an inquest heard.

The answer to "Where do souls go that commit suicide?" is that they go back to the Source.

More than 25,000 people applied for discretionary housing payments in April to help cover their rent - a 338 per cent leap on the same month last year when just 5,700 people asked for the cash.

A Sedgwick County jury began deliberations Friday in a first-degree murder trial that started just six weeks after a key witness committed suicide.

Although New Jersey has the second-lowest suicide rate in the nation, a new hotline has received roughly 300 calls since it was launched May 1, according to Philly.com. New Jersey's suicide rate for people ages 35 to 64 increased 31 percent from 1999 to 2010, and as a result the New Jersey Department of Human Services spent $648,981 to create ... (more)

Kenji Fujimoto was accepted into Kim Jong-il's inner circle during a 13-year stint serving North Korea's first family.

The mother who was discovered dead with her two young children in a New Albany creek killed them before she drowned, according to New Albany police.' Police say Jaime Clutter died from hypothermia and drowning, but they are not exactly sure if she committed suicide or if her death was accidental.

St. Joseph's residential school was torn down 26 years ago, but it left a painful legacy for survivors and their families.

As suicide rates climb steeply in the US a growing number of psychiatrists are arguing that suicidal behaviour should be considered as a disease in its own right, rather than as a behaviour resulting from a mood disorder.

WEST VALLEY CITY &#8212 The father of a West Valley City mother missing since 2009 says he was misquoted in a PEOPLE magazine article that claimed his daughter was buried by her brother-in-law, not her husband, as many have long suspected.