Suicide News

RAMANATHAPURAM: After 150 people committed suicide in the last decade here giving their cluster of hamlets the tag of "suicide panchayat," residents in this backward district are seeking government help to check the trend.

By Pamela Cowan, Saskatchewan News Network; with files from The StarPhoenix and Canwest News Service; Regina Leader-Post July 2, 2009 A A Former Regina MP Dave Batters is being remembered by his political colleagues for his time in the public eye working on behalf of his constituents and for the battle he privately waged with depression.

In a stunning move, a federal judge has tentatively decided to reverse a jury's verdicts and acquit a Missouri woman who had been convicted of computer fraud charges stemming from an Internet hoax that prompted a teenage girl to commit suicide.

Sussex mother Kay Gilderdale admitted aiding and abetting the suicide of her seriously-ill daughter when she appeared in court today.

A Chinese bus fire that killed 27 people and injured dozens last month was deliberately set by a man who committed suicide, state media said Friday.

North Texas authorities say a pastor and his wife who were hit and killed by a train committed suicide together.

A WIFE lured young girls to her house for pool parties and sleep-overs so that her husband could secretly film them undressing, a court heard.

Share + Jul 2, 2009 3:02 am US/Eastern Today is Thursday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2009.

Internet servers like MySpace cannot be held liable when minors are sexually assaulted by people they first meet on a website, a California appeals court ruled in an opinion filed late on Tuesday.

Caption: David Carradine 'Polanski Unauthorized' Benefit Screening at Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theatre West Hollywood, California .... INVESTIGATION CONTINUES INTO CARRADINE'S DEATH A medical examiner who carried out an autopsy on DAVID CARRADINE's body insists the actor did not commit suicide.

The mayor of the Nicaraguan capital - three-time world boxing champion Alexis Arguello - was found dead in his home early Wednesday morning from a gunshot wound to his chest.

A 40-year-old man Tuesday allegedly committed suicide by jumping off from the second floor of a hospital in south Delhi, police said, even as his family alleged he was killed.

An 18-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging herself after reportedly failing to secure admission to a college in the second cut-off list released by Delhi University, police said Wednesday.

There will be no further inquest into the deaths of five members of the Bain family in 1994 unless ordered by the Solicitor-General or the High Court.

Bill Curry Ottawa - Last updated on Tuesday, Jun. 30, 2009 03:03PM EDT F ormer Conservative MP Dave Batters committed suicide on Monday following a personal struggle with anxiety, depression and an addiction to prescription drugs.

The president of one of Michael Jackson 's fan clubs has revealed that at least 12 people have committed suicide because of the King of Pop's passing .

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Jun 30, 2009 11:19 am US/Eastern TAMARAC Pushed to the brink, a Tamarac woman took her own life rather than being forced out onto the street.

More than 30 Koreans in New York City have committed suicide this year. According to a Korea Times survey of the three major Korean funeral parlors in New York and New Jersey -- Jung-Ang Funeral Parlor, Je-Mi Funeral Parlor and Kim, Ki-Ho Yae Hospital -- 31 Koreans committed suicide between January and June 26th.

The Iranian government's electoral watchdog Monday confirmed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslide victory in the disputed June 12 presidential election after police wielding batons and cables prevented more than a thousand demonstrators from organizing a rally to protest the results.