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A woman in Arizona suffering from a lung condition has apparently become the fourth person in the nation to die with swine flu.

A British toddler has died after climbing onto the rollercoaster tracks at a London fairground and being struck by the ride.

Violence rages in Sri Lanka's war zone, where the main hospital has been shelled for a second time with the loss of 50 lives.

In the early '90s he won back-to-back NBA championships with the Detroit Pistons and coached the first Dream Team to Olympic gold.

Indicted mayor of Jackson, Miss., dies less than two days after losing bid for a second term in office,

A couple and their toddler son have been found shot to death in their Orange County apartment in an apparent murder-suicide, police said today.

A Texas woman with the H1N1 flu virus died earlier this week, state health officials said, the second death outside of Mexico, where the epidemic appeared to be waning.

Jack Kemp, the ex-quarterback, congressman, one-time vice-presidential nominee and self-described "bleeding-heart conservative" died Saturday.

The body of a 67-year-old blind man was found lying at the bottom of an elevator shaft in his building in the Bronx on Thursday after his wife reported him missing.

At least 18 people have died in a scorching heat wave that has swept through more than a dozen Indian states, the weather department ...