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Philip Markoff, the man accused of killing a masseuse and robbing a prostitute he met on Craigslist, was found dead in a Boston jail, officials say ...

The mayor and her teenage daughter have been found shot to death at their home, city officials said Wednesday July 14, 2010. Police discovered the bodies of Coppell Mayor Jayne Peters, 55, and Corrine Peters, 19, Tuesday evening, community information officer Sharon Logan said. Police found no signs of forced entry, Logan said.

A man walked into a North Carolina Target store on Sunday and shot an employee he had had a previous relationship with before turning the gun on himself, police said.

Foxconn, one of Apple's Chinese manufacturers, is asking its employees to sign a pledge that they will not kill themselves as the company tries to control the damage from a spate of suicides.

Taiwan's Foxconn Technology, a contract maker of the iPhone, insisted its treatment of workers is world class after a female employee became the company's eighth worker to commit suicide.

S. Koreans are killing themselves at higher rate than any other nation in the industrialized world.

The case of Phoebe Prince seems more cloudy and complicated, much like the insidious national problem that may have helped kill ...

A dispute has arisen between school officials in South Hadley, Mass., and the district attorney over whether the officials had long known about the hazing of a 15-year-old.

Vets are four times as likely to commit suicide than the average person, according to studies by United Kingdom researchers.

Authorities say a 21-year-old man has plunged to his death in an apparent suicide jump off the Empire State Building during the evening rush hour.