Man Leaps to Death from Empire State Building
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Un unidentified man committed suicide by leaping off the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. The man, believed to be in his thirties, landed on a sixth-floor landing.
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A man who looked to be in his 30s climbed over the 10-foot-high, spiked fence surrounding the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building yesterday and leaped to his death, police said.
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Two firefighters are killed and four others are badly hurt after they were forced to jump from a fourth-floor window of a burning building in the Bronx on Sunday.  Later, a third firefighter was killed at a Brooklyn blaze.
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ATHENS, Ga., Nov. 7 -- The Georgia man who killed himself at Ground Zero was upset about President Bush&#39;s reelection -- but his biggest problem may have been his double life, a source said Sunday.
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David Blaine's latest stunt ended with a crash on Thursday when the performer escaped from shackles in a gyroscope 50 feet above New York's Times Square, leapt and fell through a plywood stage below.
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A parachute that had opened prematurely became tangled in the tail of the plane the skydiver was jumping from Sunday, killing the man and forcing everyone else aboard to jump before the aircraft crashed.
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The apparent suicide of a University of Georgia researcher at ground zero in New York over the weekend has family, friends and colleagues struggling to understand what happened.
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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 23-year-old dies after jumping into a dock during a night out.
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A 23-year-old graduate student at New York University jumped to her death Monday on campus, the sixth such incident involving an NYU student in the past year.
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By Robin Turner  Tombstoning - the craze in which people jump into the sea from rocks or tall buildings - will kill again, coastguards warned last night. Their alert follows the death of a 46-year-old man from South Wales, who died after jumping 30ft into the sea off the South Devon coast.
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DC Fire and EMS spokesman Alan Etter said the man is believed to be about 60 years old, and that he suffered burns over about 30% of his body.
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A New York City fire lieutenant died and eight people were injured in a fire in a high-rise apartment building.
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Coastguards warn against the dangers of jumping into the sea as a man dies after hitting rocks.
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David Merlini, the man dubbed Hungary's Houdini, has been encased in a four tonne concrete block and lowered by crane into the Danube river from Budapest's chain bridge. He promptly escaped.
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A New York police detective died of  lung disease caused by injecting ground-up pills not exposure  to toxic air from working in the rubble of the World Trade  Center after the September 11 attacks, the city's medical  examiner said on Thursday.
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A man dies after getting into difficulties while jumping off rocks into the sea off the north Antrim coast.