Deaths, Accidental Deaths | featured news

The news that two parents in separate central Indiana incidents left their young child in a sweltering vehicle during a record heat wave has stirred outrage, but national child car-safety advocates say that, in reality, it happens more often than people realize and it happens to all kinds of parents.

A 17-year-old boy in south Texas died after firing a single shot that ricocheted off a butane tank and hit him in the head in McAllen, Texas.

A couple used a jug to make their 10-month-old daughter take solid food which eventually killed her, a court hears.

A Chicago man who quickly accelerated in a sport utility vehicle with a cable around his neck decapitated himself after a domestic dispute in Yorktown, authorities said Tuesday.

Hundreds of friends, family and law enforcement personnel arrived in Brownwood on Monday for the funeral of 39-year-old Shannon Stone, who fell to his death trying to catch a souvenir baseball at a Texas Rangers game.

The Broward Sheriff's Office is investigating what appears to have been a freakish accidental death in which a Parkland woman was strangled by an electronic neck massager on Christmas Eve.

A high school baseball player from Garfield, N.J. died over the weekend after being hit in the chest by a pitch during practice.

A western Pennsylvania jury has acquitted a man of homicide but convicted him of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his fiancee.

Accidental deaths reignite debate over number of parents who sleep with their babies for bonding.