Obituaries

The Flint Journal reports that a medical examiner confirmed 57-year-old Richard Battle Sr. died Nov. 20 as result of carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator he was using in Genesee County's Mount Morris Township, near Flint.

Corrections officers looking inside Ariel Castro's cell found him with a sheet tied around his neck, his knees bent, his shorts around his ankles, 27 minutes after their last look.

Joe Frazier has won another decision more than two years after his death: The Philadelphia Art Commission has unanimously approved a design for a statue honoring the former heavyweight boxing champ.

An Arizona commission that oversees workplace safety blamed the state's Forestry Division on Wednesday for the June deaths of 19 firefighters, saying state fire officials knowingly put protection of property ahead of safety and should have pulled crews out earlier.

Police have concluded that Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro committed suicide by hanging weeks into a life sentence with no chance for parole.

TV reports the FBI is investigating the death of 32-year-old Gregory Kittle. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement that Kittle died Monday after an "incident" involving other inmates in a housing unit at the Big Sandy prison.

A memorial service for former Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain will be held Friday at the state Capitol in Jackson, and the funeral will be Saturday in Natchez.

"Bill was truly a beloved and respected member of our Curb Appeal family and this loss is devastating to us," the show said on its official Facebook page Tuesday.

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Tragedy struck at Glasgow's busy Clutha bar on Friday night when a police helicopter dropped "like a stone" on to the roof of the building.

The revelation that a New York City commuter train derailed while barreling into a sharp curve at nearly three times the speed limit is fueling questions about whether automated crash-avoidance technology could... The engineer in the commuter-train derailment that killed four people over the weekend caught himself nodding at the controls just ... (more)

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO: Three former owners of Northeast Ohio funeral homes have pleaded not guilty to charges that they stole thousands of dollars from customers at their businesses.

A funeral service will be held today in a small New Brunswick town for four teenagers killed in a highway crash over the weekend.

A man fishing from a kayak off a Hawaiian island has died after being bitten by a shark, authorities said Monday.

Andre Schiffrin, the literary editor who gave readers Art Spiegelman, Michel Foucault and Studs Terkel before he was forced out of commercial publishing in a defining battle between profits and literature, has died in Paris.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a sweeping federal lawsuit against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops over its ethical guidelines for Roman Catholic hospitals, arguing the directives were to blame for negligent care of a pregnant woman who went into early labor and whose baby died within hours.

Pittsburgh Pirates minor league prospect Evan Chambers died in his sleep over the weekend.

The neighborhood where "Fast & Furious" star Paul Walker died in a one-car crash is known to attract street racers, according to law enforcement officials.

Former Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain, a Democrat who appointed many women and minorities to government jobs and strengthened the executive branch by removing lawmakers from state boards, died Monday in Jackson.

The Colorado Springs Fire Department responded to the blaze at the Quail Hill Mobile Home Park at about 1 a.m. Saturday.