Coroner News

Black ice is thought to be a contributing factor in two separate single-vehicle wrecks that occurred on Defeated Creek Road on Friday morning.

A devoted Cotswolds mum accidentally drowned her disabled daughter in the bath and then carried her into a nearby lake where she drowned herself, an inquest heard.

A "manic" celebrity florist from Gloucestershire may have thrown herself into a lake after her disabled daughter drowned in the bath during an experimental treatment, a coroner has said.

Prosecutors in the case of Stephanie Lazarus, a veteran Los Angeles Police Department detective accused of murdering the wife of an ex-boyfriend more than 20 years ago, focused today on a gory piece of evidence that promises to play a central role in the sensational trial: saliva collected from a bite mark left on the victim.

A 22-year-old man fleeing police died early Thursday after he drove a pickup through a farmer's field, crashed through a metal gate, raced down a steep dirt road and rolled the vehicle, troopers said.

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Italian melodic death metallers DISARMONIA MUNDI will release their new album, "The Isolation Game" , on December 9 via Coroner Records .

Rush County Coroner Ann Moster said Friday that 48-year-old Gary D. Colvin of Eaton, Ohio, was pronounced dead shortly after Wednesday afternoon's accident at the former Carthage Mill.

Inscription may have royal connection A silver 15th century disc, called a vervel, has been confirmed as treasure following an inquest at Dunstable Coroner's Court.

Bill Sparkman, the U.S. Census worker found dead and nude with his hands taped near a remote Clay County cemetery with "FED" scrawled across his naked chest, hanged himself while staging it to look as if he'd been murdered.

A Chilliwack man died accidentally two years ago due to brain damage caused by the lack of oxygen and due to the rapid breakdown of muscle tissue that led to massive organ failure, BC Coroner Vince Stancato ruled late Thursday.

A lethal dose of the "feel good" drug Ecstasy - not repeated jolts of electricity from Tasers in the hands of Chilliwack RCMP officers - was the main cause of Robert Knipstrom's death, a forensic pathologist told a coroner's jury Wednesday.

VERMILION a ' Vermilion police are calling the shooting death of a man early this morning suspicious.

Robert Knipstrom's father fought back tears yesterday as he described his son to a coroner's jury that's looking into his death two years ago after he was tasered, pepper-sprayed and hit with a metal baton by Chilliwack RCMP officers.

A South Carolina man has been accused of stabbing his wife's 82-year-old grandfather to death.

A SHORTAGE of metal detectors played no part in the deaths of two servicemen killed by an anti-tank mine in Afghanistan, a coroner has ruled.

A father who crashed into a tree on black ice in perilous road conditions was more than two-and-a-half times the drink-drive limit and was not wearing a seatbelt, an inquest heard.

Photo by Erma Harris A flight that originated from the Sharp County Regional Airport Nov.

Authorities say workers at a South Carolina plant found the body of a missing 52-year-old man.

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