Obituaries

A coroner in Ohio says the father of a boy killed in a 2012 school shooting died of an accidental heroin overdose on the second anniversary of his son's death.

Newly released recordings of 911 emergency calls revealed the helplessness of stunned residents in the California town of Orland who witnessed the aftermath of last week's fiery crash between a FedEx truck and a tour bus that killed 10 people.

Suicides among U.S. special operations forces, including elite Navy SEALs and Army Rangers, are at record levels, a U.S. military official said on Thursday, citing the effects of more than a decade of "hard combat."

In this April 18, 2013 aerial file photo are the remains of a fertilizer plant destroyed by an explosion in West, Texas.

ST. LOUIS - A woman who was shot last month in the midst of a fight with others has died, according to St. Louis police.

Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and heroics of the world that set his mind churning as a child growing up on Colombia's Caribbean coast.

London Underground workers are to stage five days of strike action in the coming weeks in the long-running row over Tube ticket office closures.

Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson had planned to celebrate the end of the 1971 school year by gathering with classmates at a quarry along a gravel road.

Jose Luis "Cheo" Feliciano, a giant of salsa music and Puerto Rican legend, died in a car crash early Thursday morning in San Juan, police said.

A courageous girl who survived an horrific house fire which claimed the lives of her mother and three others has begun to rebuild her life.

This frame grab from video provided by WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tenn., shows some of the area of an explosion and fire, Wednesday, April 16, 2014, at a property where several ammunition and explosives plants are based, in McEwen, Tenn.

Arthur Arzola, Jr's brothers hug after speaking during a Service of Remembrance for graduate student Arthur "Tury" Arzola, Jr., at the University of La Verne in La Verne, CA, Wednesday, April 16, 2014.

Minutes before climbing into the driver's seat of a new platform quint fire truck Tuesday afternoon, Donnie Mosby said working with the Evansville Fire Department was his late father's passion.

Virginia Tech has paid federal fines totaling $32,500 for failing to issue a timely alert when a gunman began his killing rampage on campus seven years ago Wednesday, leaving 33 people dead.

Stork guitarist and former Korn touring member Shane Gibson has died. Stork said in a statement that the 35-year-old passed away early Tuesday morning in an Alabama hospital as a result of complications from a blood clotting disorder.

Many of the runners had a special reason for taking part in the race, and most raised a lot of cash for charities close to their hearts.

The 78-year-old man was pronounced dead at Stowe Close in Liverpool after he was found with knife wounds just before 23:00 BST on Tuesday.

U.S. Attorney Berry Grissom, right, and Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe, left, listen to a question during a news conference in Overland Park, Kan., Tuesday, April 15, 2014.

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Five University of Calgary students were stabbed to death Tuesday morning in what the city's police chief called "the worst mass murder in Calgary's history."