Suicide News

South Carolina police are searching for the fiance of a Mount Pleasant man who they suspect committed suicide Friday inside the couple's home.

The Cupertino company has come under a new round of criticism after recent reports about conditions at overseas contractor's plants where the iPhone, iPad and other top-selling devices are made.

An 11-year-old boy's statements to police before he committed suicide will be admitted at the trial of another Ontario boy accused of assaulting and robbing him.

Coroner's officials on Tuesday ruled Don Cornelius' death a suicide, nearly a week after the "Soul Train" creator and host killed himself with a gunshot to the head.

A Russian military officer serving onboard a nuclear submarine has committed suicide, an official said Monday.

A coronial inquest has begun in to the tragic suicide of a policeman who took his own life while at work in a WA country police station.

SYMPATHISERS were moved to tears, weekend as they watched the lifeless body of a 38-year old man, Amidu Olajire, a hunter who reportedly killed himself after his wife abandoned him and their six children.

A SALES representative who booked a one-way ticket from his home country to England was found dead at the bottom of Beachy Head cliffs, an inquest has heard.

The Lubbock County medical examiner says the death of a Texas Tech student who fell from the upper levels of an 11-story parking garage was a suicide.

According to a Fox5 report, 23-year-old Karla Gallo jumped from the southern side of the Balboa Avenue bridge early Friday afternoon, coming into contact with a vehicle on I-805 in Kearney Mesa.

A body pulled Friday afternoon from the South Fork of the Wildcat Creek near Monitor has been identified as that of Kerry Dunsmore, 43, of Lafayette, who had been missing for more than two weeks. The Tippecanoe County Coroner's office conducted an autopsy Saturday. Matt Tholen, a conservation officer with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, said a retired police officer canoeing on the creek spotted the body in 2 to 3 feet of water early Friday afternoon and called the DNR. Authorities believe Dunsmore committed suicide by walking into the creek. Her husband had reported her missing on Jan. 26, and her vehicle, purse and cellphone were found at a Wildcat Creek public access site off Indiana 26 near Monitor later that day. The body was recovered by two DNR Search and Rescue Divers on Friday afternoon. A 3-year-old Indianapolis boy was killed in a two-vehicle crash shortly after 7:30 p.m. Friday on Interstate 74 in Fountain County. Light snow was falling and blowing at the time, creating a slick roadway. Authorities said the speed of travel, considering the conditions, was thought to be a contributing cause. Indiana State Police said a 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer driven by Deishay Scott, 18, of Indianapolis, was headed west on I-74 when it ran off the road and through the median. When the vehicle entered the eastbound lanes, it was struck on the passenger side by a 2003 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Annette Suess, 46, of Illinois. Ra-Shawn Kennedy, riding in the vehicle driven by Scott, was pronounced dead at the scene of a broken neck. The police report said child restraints were not in use. Scott suffered cuts and complained of chest pains. Another passenger in his vehicle, Shalanda Reynolds, 32, of Indianapolis, suffered a broken pelvis. Suess received a head injury and collapsed lung in the crash, according to police. A total of five people were taken to St. Elizabeth Health hospital in Crawfordsville for treatment of injuries. Some were later transferred to hospitals in Indianapolis. A husband and wife in Fowler were arrested Friday evening on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a child learning center, maintaining a common nuisance and neglect of a dependent. Following a two-month investigation, the Fowler Police Department arrested Nicholas R. Randolph, 31, and Carrie A. Randolph, 34, in their home at 205 E. Fourth St. Authorities said they discovered several items commonly used to manufacture methamphetamine during the search. Along with the arrests of the two adults, an elementary school-age child was removed from the home and placed in the custody of the Indiana Department of Child Services.

Assemblyman Anthony Portantino speaks at the newly named Larry Zarian Transportation Center dedication ceremony in Glendale on Wednesday, November 30, 2011.

The day before he had tried to get help, but was only able to speak to a member of Oxford Health NHS Trust's crisis team on what was described as a "very bad" telephone line.

A passenger who fell overboard from the world's biggest cruise ship had a row with a barman hours earlier, his family said last night.

A mother of two and a man found shot dead in Roscommon are suspected of having committed suicide, police sources said.

Someone called authorities from 41-year-old Jerry Black Jr.'s home Friday in Lincolnton and said a woman had committed suicide.

Sophomore Drew Ferraro, 15, jumped to his death from a building Friday on the campus of Crescenta Valley High School, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said.

The death of former medical school president and civic leader Karen Pletz has been ruled a suicide, a Florida county medical examiner said Friday.Pletz, the 64-year-old ex-president of the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, was found dead Nov.

Los Angeles county sheriff's officials said at anews conference that the death of a male student at Crescenta Valley High School appeared to be a suicide.

The territory's Children's Commissioner, Howard Bath, said girls now account for 40 per cent of all suicides of children under the age of 17, Fairfax Newspapers reported today.