Category Archives: Death

NY teen killed by bus had suicide note, police say; family alleges bullying

By doris | Published: January 3, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com A 15-year-old who a witness says jumped in front of a Staten Island bus was carrying a suicide note when she was struck, distraught because she was the target of bullying at her school, according to a relative. Amanda Diane Cummings, a sophomore at Staten Island’s New Dorp High School, was [...]

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Authorities Find Body Believed to Be Mt. Rainier Shooting Suspect

By doris | Published: January 2, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com The man suspected of killing a ranger at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State is believed to have been found dead, according to police. Authorities located a body face-down in the snow without any identification, but believe it to be Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, the sole suspect in Sunday’s shooting, [...]

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Kim Jong Un: The ‘great successor’ remains an enigma

By doris | Published: December 19, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — As North Koreans face an uncertain future without Kim Jong Il, the world’s attention now turns to his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, whom the ruling Workers’ Party has dubbed the “great successor.” “Kim Jong Un’s leadership provides a sure guarantee for creditably carrying to completion the revolutionary cause [...]

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Craigslist ad victim? Police identify another body

By doris | Published: December 4, 2011

Full Story at USNewsmsnbc.msn.com CLEVELAND — Authorities identified the body of an Ohio man Saturday who could be the third victim of a bogus Craigslist website ad that lured two jobseekers to their deaths. The body of Ralph H. Geiger, 56, was found in a shallow grave Nov. 25 in the same area another body [...]

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Frederik Meijer, Meijer Inc. founder, dead at 91

By doris | Published: November 26, 2011

Full Story at us.Newsmsn.com Frederik Meijer, who built the regional retail powerhouse Meijer Inc. while nurturing his lifelong love of the arts, has died at age 91. The company confirmed his death in a statement Friday evening, saying the billionaire died at the Spectrum Health System in Grand Rapids after suffering a stroke in his [...]

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Jackson’s doctor found guilty of manslaughter

By doris | Published: November 7, 2011

Full Story atTODAY.com LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s doctor was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star. The verdict against Dr. Conrad Murray marked the latest chapter in one of pop culture’s most shocking [...]

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Hillary Clinton’s Mom, Dorothy Rodham, Dies at 92

By doris | Published: November 1, 2011

Full Story at People.com Hillary Clinton’s mother, Dorothy Rodham, died just after midnight Tuesday in Washington, D.C., according to a statement from the Clinton family. She was 92. Secretary of State Clinton announced she was canceling a trip to Istanbul and London Monday to stay with her ailing mother. No medical information was disclosed. Born [...]

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Retribution a byproduct or warning sign in Libya?

By doris | Published: October 26, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — After months of grinding civil war, with supporters of Moammar Gadhafi slowly yielding territory to anti-Gadhafi rebels, the final battle for Libya’s liberation unleashed an apparent bloodbath. Gadhafi was killed after being captured last week, and the circumstances of his death remain unclear. Human Rights Watch says dozens of [...]

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6 killed, 3 wounded in California salon shooting

By doris | Published: October 12, 2011

Full Story at  msnbc.com SEAL BEACH, Calif. — Six people were shot to death and three others wounded at a hair salon on Wednesday in a normally sedate Southern California beach community, Orange County authorities said. One suspect was in custody. The shooting occurred at Salon Meritage around 1:30 p.m. in the 500 block of [...]

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Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis has died

By doris | Published: October 8, 2011

Full Story at ProFootballTalk.nbcsports.com Al Davis, the Oakland Raiders owner who was one of the towering figures of professional football over the last half century, has died. The Raiders’ web site has confirmed that Davis passed away this morning. He was 82. In 1963, the Raiders, at the time a struggling franchise in the upstart [...]

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Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies

By doris | Published: October 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world’s leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56. The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of [...]

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Saleh returns to Yemen as al-Awlaki was killed

By doris | Published: September 30, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Anwar al-Awlaki was killed exactly one week after President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned to Yemen at the end of a long period of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. Intelligence analysts say that may have been no coincidence, and that with al-Awlaki’s killing, Saleh is underlining to the West — [...]

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Cantaloupe illnesses and deaths expected to rise

By doris | Published: September 29, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials said Wednesday more illnesses and possibly more deaths may be linked to an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe in coming weeks. So far, the outbreak has caused at least 72 illnesses — including up to 16 deaths — in 18 states, making it the deadliest [...]

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3 dead, more than 50 hurt in Nev. air race crash

By doris | Published: September 17, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com RENO, Nev. (AP) — As thousands watched in horror, a World War II-era fighter plane competing in a Nevada event described as a car race in the sky suddenly pitched upward, rolled and did a nose-dive toward the crowded grandstand. The plane, flown by a 74-year-old veteran Hollywood stunt pilot, then [...]

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After 9/11: A decade of deaths, marriages, war and peace

By doris | Published: September 8, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Six-year-olds often times forget their own last names, but I remember Tuesday, September 11, 2001, like it was last week. I remember wearing my favorite jumper and my mother braiding my hair. I remember eating scrambled eggs off a yellow plate. And then I remember the radio anchor said, ‘Wow! Have [...]

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Stage rigging collapse kills 5 at Indiana State Fair

By doris | Published: August 14, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com INDIANAPOLIS — A fifth person has died and others were injured Saturday night when stage rigging collapsed after an unexpected wind gust, trapping and injuring fans awaiting a Sugarland concert at the Indiana State Fair, officials said. The fifth death was confirmed Sunday, NBC station WTHR.com reported. The person was believed [...]

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Forces in Afghanistan kill militants involved in downing of copter

By doris | Published: August 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Coalition forces in Afghanistan have killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for the downing of a helicopter that left 38 U.S. and Afghan personnel dead, the commander of U.S. forces there and NATO announced Wednesday. A precision airstrike killed Mullah Mohibullah — a Taliban leader — and the [...]

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U.S. official: More than two dozen U.S. deaths in Afghan copter crash

By doris | Published: August 6, 2011

Full Story atCNN.com Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — More than two dozen American troops are believed to have died in a deadly Chinook helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan overnight, a U.S. military official told CNN on Saturday. Among those killed were a mix of special forces from different services, the official said. If the numbers are [...]

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Calif. death, 76 illnesses linked to ground turkey

By doris | Published: August 2, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is scrambling to find the source of a salmonella outbreak likely linked to ground turkey that has killed one and sickened dozens more. Finding the source of an outbreak hasn’t been easy; the government has been chasing the illnesses for months. The Agriculture Department, which oversees [...]

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Casey Anthony not guilty of murder, other charges in daughter’s death

By doris | Published: July 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — After less than 11 hours of deliberation, a jury Tuesday found Casey Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder and the other most serious charges against her in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter. But the jury convicted her on four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law [...]

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