Conductor Kills Himself in California Cathedral
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The orchestra conductor of Southern  California's landmark Crystal Cathedral committed suicide early  on Friday, shooting himself inside a barricaded storage room.
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David Kessler, dean of the University of California at San Francisco medical school, says he was fired for questioning the school's finances.
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Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb, a nationally known heart surgeon who killed himself the day after Christmas, wrote a suicide note in which he complained "The world is not ready for me."
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Finnished RZSL A Helsinki squirrel dived into the bicycle wheel of passing opera singer Esa Ruuttunen, hospitalising him and killing itself.â¦
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A man diagnosed with terminal lung cancer who was planning to host his own living wake has died.
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WETASKIWIN, Alta. (CP) - One man is dead and six others are in hospital after lightning hit the group today at an Alberta provincial park.  RCMP Cpl.
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The mysterious death of Britain's leading Sherlock Holmes expert appears to have been a bizarre suicide plot deliberately based on one of the cases tackled by the fictional detective himself, a report said.
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An art thief on trial in France for stealing dozens of masterpieces tries to kill himself in his cell.
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Preliminary information suggests that a man who apparently committed suicide after setting a fire in Yosemite National Park had earlier killed his wife and two young daughters, police said Sunday.
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"They are trying to take away our society's Christian and Orthodox identity, using various groundless arguments, because they hate God and want to marginalize the church"  Greece's Orthodox Church leader, Archbishop Christodoulos, who eased centuries of tension with the Vatican but angered liberal critics who viewed him as an attention-seeking reactionary, died Monday at his home of cancer, church officials said. He was 69.Christodoulos, who headed the church for a decade, was first hospitalized in Athens in June before being diagnosed with cancer of the liver and large intestine.He spent 10 weeks in a hospital in Miami but an October liver transplant operation was canceled when doctors discovered the cancer had spread. He refused hospital treatment in the final weeks of his life. He died at his home in the Athens suburb of Psyhico. Read more
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An apparently suicidal man held responsible for a train derailment that killed at least 11 people Wednesday faces multiple murder counts that could bring him the death penalty, the Los Angeles County district attorney said today.
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A Roman Catholic bishop blamed for a seminary porn scandal that has rocked Austria's church has resigned, Austrian media reported Wednesday.
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Investigators blame overdose for death of the blues legend in his California home last month
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Long-time Purcellville business and community leader Edward E. Nichols Jr. apparently killed his wife, Margaret H. Nichols, then killed himself, at their home on Nursery Avenue Friday afternoon, the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said today. They were both 87.
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A 22-year-old man hanged himself just hours after he had knocked down and killed a child, an inquest hears.
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A San Francisco man who was stranded with his family in the snowy wilderness walked more than 16 miles in search of help before he died &#151; six more than originally thought, a search official said Saturday.
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A scandal-tainted minister in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet has committed suicide, media reported on Monday, compounding problems for the Japanese leader whose support had already dived ahead of a July election.