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Line Of Duty Police Officer Deaths Increase By 13% In 2011

The number of law enforcement officers who were killed while in the line of duty increased by 13% in 2011, leaving 173 officers dead through December 28. The rise in officer deaths comes after 2009 say a 50-year-low ... continue

Violent Crimes Kill More People Than War [Study]

The 2011 Global Burden of Armed Violence report has revealed that more people are killed each year by armed violence than war. According to the study of the 526,000 people who die violenty every year 55,000 are killed during ... continue

Drug Use Now Kills More People Than Traffic Accidents [Study]

In 1979 the U.S. Government began tracking drug-related deaths and for the first time those deaths have surpassed the number of traffic fatalities on an annual basis. The most recent statistics which were taken in 2009 shows that ... continue

Leslie Nielsen Dead At 84

Canadian actor and comedian Leslie Nielsen is reported to have passed away after a battle with pneumonia at the age of 84. Nephew Doug Nielsen told the CJOB talk radio station in Canada that "Just in this last ... continue

Fess Parker Dies Aged 85

Fess Parker, best known for his roles playing Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone has died at the age of 85. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps at the end of World War II, he started his career ... continue

Pernell Roberts Dead At 81

Pernell Roberts, best remembered for his roles in Bonanza and Trapper John, M.D. has died of cancer at his Malibu home aged 81. Pernell Roberts started his career in high school, singing in a local USO show before ... continue

LED Traffic Lights Are Efficiently Inefficient During Snow Falls

Over the last several years LED lights have been hailed as a must have for going green, they put out much less power and burn cooler than traditional incadescent lights, unfortunately for engineers that efficiency is causing ... continue

Soupy Sales Dead At 83

Comedian, actor, and radio-TV personality Soupy Sales has died of a "series of ailments" in New York at the age of 83. Born in Franklinton, North Carolina, Soupy Sales served in the Navy in the final years of ... continue

NYC-area DJ Mr. Magic dies of heart attack

Mr. Magic, an influential NYC DJ who has been namechecked on tracks by Nas, Biggie and Tupac, has died of a heart attack. Alongside Marley Marl, Mr. Magic began hosting the first all hip-hop radio show ("Rap Attack") ... continue

Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women Fiddler Amy Farris Dead

Amy Farris, a fiddler with the Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women was found dead from suspected suicide in her Los Angeles home over the weekend aged 40. Farris, an Austin Texas native, had performed extensively with ... continue

Financier Finn Casperson dead in apparent suicide

Ex-CEO of Beneficial Corp. Finn H.W. Casperson was found dead in an apparent suicide behind an office building in Westerly, Rhode Island. Casperson, 67, was discovered dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound on September ... continue

Robert Novak dead at 78

Political commentator Robert Novak has died after a long battle with a brain cancer at the age of 78. Although a conservative through and through, Novak battled all sides of politics through a career that spanned over 50 ... continue

Naomi Sims dead at 61

Naomi Sims, regarded as the first African American supermodel, has died aged 61 after a long battle with cancer. Sims became one of the first really successful African American models, becoming the first African American to grace the ... continue

Baatin of Slum Village has died

Titus Glover, also known as Baatin, founder of acclaimed rap act Slum Village has died. Baatin's death was confirmed by the Detroit Free Press. No details are available as to when or how the rapper died. News of ... continue

CT Hippie “Gathering of the Vibes” turns deadly

Mellow was critically harshed at this weekend's "Gathering of the Vibes" concert in Bridgeport, CT when a 29-year-old male concertgoer was found dead near a large communal campsite. The body was uncovered early Sunday morning at the location ... continue

Author E. Lynn Harris dead at 54

African-American author E. Lynn Harris, best known for introducing the concept of 'on the down-low" to the wider community has died in Los Angeles at the age of 54. Originally a salesman for IBM, Harris was unable to ... continue

iPhone prototype loss prompts worker suicide

Reports are surfacing that a young Chinese worked has killed himself after losing track of a next-generation iPhone prototype. 25-year-old Sun Danyong reportedly leapt to his death last Thursday from his 12th floor apartment. The young man was ... continue