NBC Reality Show Contestant Kills Himself
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A contestant in "The Contender," a new NBC reality series about boxing scheduled to start next month, committed suicide on Monday in Philadelphia.
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A Houston teen who survived a gruesome racial assault last year committed suicide when he leaped from a cruise ship this week, according to a preliminary autopsy conducted Thursday.
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Stand-up comedian and actor Richard  Jeni, a regular on late-night U.S. television, killed himself  but was not despondent about his career despite suffering from  mental illness, his family said on Tuesday.
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Prosecutors have concluded that a reporter who died after falling out of a stairwell window of his apartment building committed suicide, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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A former New Orleans police officer charged in the videotaped beating of a man after Hurricane Katrina has apparently shot himself to death, about a month before his trial was to begin, authorities said Monday.
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A man who fired several shots into  the air in a landmark Southern California church and then  barricaded himself inside killed himself on Friday despite  lengthy efforts to persuade him to surrender, police said.
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It was a historic show as the contestant who seemed unstoppable was finally halted in his tracks. It was the end of an almost unbelieveable winning streak.
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The creator and star of NBCâs show on surviving the first season, life outside the office and the demise of âStudio 60.â
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Nigel Aylott, a contestant on CBS Sports' "Subaru Primal Quest," was fatally injured Wednesday while competing in the adventure race's 2004 edition on Orcas Island, Wash.
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A 20-year-old college cheerleader was shot to death in her apartment by an obsessed ex-boyfriend, who then killed himself, authorities said.
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A young boxer who was taking part in the US boxing reality TV programme The Contender commits suicide.
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Professional wrestling superstar Chris Benoit killed his wife and 7-year-old son before hanging himself from his weight machine, authorities said on Tuesday.
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CLEVELAND - A viewer is suing NBC for $2.5 million, contending that he threw up because of a "Fear Factor" episode in which contestants ate rats mixed in a blender.
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A coroner calls for "insult chatrooms" to be banned after a man killed himself while being filmed on a webcam.
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Richard Hatch, who became a millionaire when he won the first-ever "Survivor" reality show, has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of tax evasion for failing to report income, including the &#36;1.01 million he won on the show.
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Reality TV star and former model Anna Nicole Smith was pronounced dead Thursday after being taken to a Florida hospital after being found unconscious in her hotel room.  Smith, 39, collapsed at a south Florida hotel and was taken to a local hospital,...
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LOS ANGELES A psychiatric patient at Harbor UCLA Medical Center died over the weekend after he tried to hang himself in the shower stall.