Suicide News

Federal prosecutors on Friday said they would not appeal a judge's dismissal of a Missouri mother's convictions for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide.

Chicago Police on Wednesday revealed their strongest evidence yet that Michael Scott took his own life -- gunshot residue found on Scott's left hand -- but the family of the Chicago School Board president was weighing an independent autopsy nonetheless.

An inmate who had been in the St. Tammany Parish since last month has committed suicide.

Statistics have shown that gay teens are three times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers.

Three Iranian men have been sentenced to hang for raping a 17-year-old boy, who reportedly committed suicide after the event.

A top South Korean model who was a fixture at fashion week in Paris and London was found dead at her apartment in Paris, an official said Friday.

The man who died following what police described as "an industrial accident" at the Boeing plant committed suicide, according to the King County Medical Examiner's Office.

The death of a woman who apparently committed suicide shortly after being arrested by police at Heathrow Airport will be investigated by an independent watchdog.

A mother-of-two from Brighton committed suicide by dousing herself in barbecue lighter fluid and setting it alight after battling with a chronic alcohol problem and depression, an inquest has heard.

Activists renewed their demands Thursday for an investigation into the way Malaysian authorities treat Indian minorities following the death of a woman who committed suicide after police fatally shot her brother.

A Pentagon probe will look at how all branches of the armed forces -- not just the Army -- keep an eye out for potential problems within their ranks.

Autopsy evidence leaves no doubt that Chicago Public School Board President Michael Scott killed himself, Cook County Chief Medical Examiner Dr.

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A lawyer says an 86-year-old Las Vegas man will plead guilty to fatally shooting his 80-year-old wife last September in a botched suicide pact.

The father of a boy who accused Michael Jackson of molestation in 1993 blew out his brains in his luxury New Jersey apartment, cops said Tuesday.

Soldier suicides this year are almost sure to top last year's grim totals, but a recent decline in the pace of such incidents could mean the Army is starting to make progress in stemming them, officials said Tuesday.

Divers returned to the Chicago River and investigators scoured cell phone records Tuesday as police declined to call the death of the city's school board president a suicide a day after an autopsy concluded he shot himself in the head.

The New Hampshire Attorney General's office has released autopsy results in a suspected murder-suicide in Derry.

New York City cops fired their weapons the fewest number of times last year since comparable record-keeping began in 1971, NYPD data released Monday show.

Chicago's school board president apparently shot himself in the head near the Chicago River before dawn Monday, officials said as his death was met with disbelief by civic leaders and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.