A fifteen-year-old boy died on Thursday while attempting to jump from one roof to another in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, the New York Times reports. The teen was with a group of friends on an adjacent roof when he fell to his death.
Sir Terry Pratchett, author of more than 70 novels, including 40 in his satirical fantasy series Discworld, died at his home Thursday. Pratchett was 66. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2007, and continued to write as he struggled with the onset of dementia.
On Monday morning, a popular photography teacher at El Dorado High School in Valencia, California was found hanging in her classroom by students, the Orange County Register reports.
Paul Bennett, the British man convicted of indecent exposure last month after rubbing his genitals on a mailbox and shouting "wow," was found dead this week, the New York Daily News reports. He was 45.
A pair of parents in Glendale, Oregon, were charged with murder by abuse this week in the starvation death of their seven-week-old son. According to local news outlet KPIC, police believe Amanda Hancock used breast milk for lactation porn "instead of feeding the child." Stephen Williams, the father, also allegedly…
A 68-year-old man in North Miami Beach, Florida roasted to death on Sunday after getting into a sauna at his condominium and not making it out. His family went to check on him after a few hours, and found his body had roasted to look like "jerky."
A Minnesota man has been arrested for elder neglect after he brought his 90-year-old mother to the bank and withdrew $850 in her name. Their stop at Wells Fargo came just hours before the man reported his mother dead, and police suspect he may have put her corpse in a wheelchair and used it to get the money.
What sort of people tend to die from alcohol poisoning? If you said "idiot college students," shut up—you're wrong, and drunk.
Tasha Thomas, the girlfriend of John Crawford, III, the man shot dead by police last August in an Ohio Walmart, was killed in a high-speed car crash on New Year's Day, Ohio's ABC 22 reports.
Did you get cancer recently? You did? Uh... sorry. I'm very sorry. I thought you were going to say "no." Jesus. Uh... take heart in your many fellow Americans who have not gotten cancer recently—thanks to science, etc!
A four-year-old autistic boy from New York who had gone missing on Christmas Eve from a relative's house in South Carolina was found dead on Friday. Coroners confirmed that a drowned body found in a pond in Little River was that of Jayden Morrison.
Some of you who have successfully reached middle age and feel the yearning for a new sense of adventure in life may be considering purchasing a motorcycle. Before you do, consider this FACT: you will die.
According to reports, a group of gunmen suspected to be affiliated with the Islamist group Boko Haram raided a village in northeastern Nigeria last week, killing dozens of people and kidnapping over 100 others.
In accordance with the final wishes of a dead Indiana woman, her 9-year-old German Shepherd was scheduled to be put to sleep today so the two could be cremated and buried together—a fate the dog has only temporarily avoided.
We don't want to alarm anyone, but it is now more theoretically possible than ever before that you could one day be flying on a commercial airline flight with only one single pilot, and that pilot could die during the flight—oh my god.
The Colbert Report has posted its guest list for the final week of the show, and it's solid, but there are no huge surprises: Seth Rogen, Kendrick Lamar, author and Iraq vet Phil Klay, and Grimmy, the Grim Reaper.
Carol Lackner, the Rikers Island prison guard who reportedly left her post as James Murdough died of hyperthermia in February, was arrested and charged with lying about the incident today, the New York Daily News reports. Murdough, who was homeless and suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, "basically baked…
TMZ reports Real World: New Orleans cast member Ryan Knight was found dead Thursday morning.
On Tuesday, a Florida man shot himself dead after a gun he was using to threaten his wife's dog accidentally fired in his face, say police.
Right now, in a place you've never visited, a person you'll never know is dying. If he's dying in a particularly devastating way—and, more importantly, if he is leaving behind shareable content—it is possible that millions of strangers will mourn his or her death tomorrow. Why?
