Suicide News

Three workers at a Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China, have committed suicide in the past three weeks, a French news agency , citing state media and a labor-rights group, reported Saturday.

Terry Lee Releford, who police were seeking in the the murder of a woman on Lovell Road on Sunday, has committed suicide.

The 71 homicides that marked a grim record in the city of Stockton last year was reflected in the tally of homicides in the annual report from the county Coroner's Office.

The Lawrence County Sheriff's Department says the body of a young woman has been found in the Black River but her name is not yet known.

The New York Times reports: In the 1990s, the suicide rate dipped with the crime rate.

A WINCHESTER man with a history of depression and suicide attempts died at St Catherine's Hill, an inquest heard.

The answer to "Where do souls go that commit suicide?" is that they go back to the Source.

More than 25,000 people applied for discretionary housing payments in April to help cover their rent - a 338 per cent leap on the same month last year when just 5,700 people asked for the cash.

A Sedgwick County jury began deliberations Friday in a first-degree murder trial that started just six weeks after a key witness committed suicide.

Although New Jersey has the second-lowest suicide rate in the nation, a new hotline has received roughly 300 calls since it was launched May 1, according to Philly.com. New Jersey's suicide rate for people ages 35 to 64 increased 31 percent from 1999 to 2010, and as a result the New Jersey Department of Human Services spent $648,981 to create ... (more)

Kenji Fujimoto was accepted into Kim Jong-il's inner circle during a 13-year stint serving North Korea's first family.

The mother who was discovered dead with her two young children in a New Albany creek killed them before she drowned, according to New Albany police.' Police say Jaime Clutter died from hypothermia and drowning, but they are not exactly sure if she committed suicide or if her death was accidental.

St. Joseph's residential school was torn down 26 years ago, but it left a painful legacy for survivors and their families.

As suicide rates climb steeply in the US a growing number of psychiatrists are arguing that suicidal behaviour should be considered as a disease in its own right, rather than as a behaviour resulting from a mood disorder.

WEST VALLEY CITY &#8212 The father of a West Valley City mother missing since 2009 says he was misquoted in a PEOPLE magazine article that claimed his daughter was buried by her brother-in-law, not her husband, as many have long suspected.

In an interview from prison, Bernie Madoff said he'll be forever haunted by the suicide of his oldest son, and he can't sleep at night because he blames himself for the 2010 tragedy.

The fire that shut down GG's Island Restaurant in January 2012 has been ruled arson, according to Cal Fire investigators.

Mary Regan, Political Correspondent A pregnant woman should be legally entitled to an abortion if there is a risk of her dying by suicide - even if the Surpreme Court ruling on the X Case did not determine this to be the constitutional position, acording to Master of the National Maternity Hospital, Dr Rhona Mahony.

San Luis Obispo County has the highest rate of stroke death in California and an above-average incidence of drug-induced deaths but is among the healthiest counties for mortality relating to heart disease and the flu.

Budget 2013 should have included some extra provision to address the increasing and alarming rate of suicide in rural New Zealand, the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network says.