(The Washington Post) – When Fox Lake police officer Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was found mortally wounded along a forested road in this sleepy northern Illinois town, his fellow...
STEVEN WINE, AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — Former NFL tackle Jonathan Martin posted on Facebook that difficulties in the profession led him to attempt suicide...
(Reuters Health) – Being connected to friends, family and social groups may offer some protection against suicide, suggests a new U.S. study. Among more than 70,000...
William Bender and Barbara Laker, PHILLY.COM PHILADELPHIA (Philly.com) — Anthony Riley could make almost anyone feel good. You. The girl you’re trying to impress. A national TV...
Compiled from wire reports Special to the NNPA via the Florida Courier For the first time, a national scientific study has found a higher...
Molly Hennessey-Fiske, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PORT GIBSON, Miss. (The L.A. Times)—They found the black man’s body hanging by a bedsheet from a locust tree....
Max Kutner, NEWSWEEK (Newsweek)—In 2013, hours before 16-year-old Adrian Alvaresz killed himself during lunchtime in the courtyard of his high school in Texas, he posted a...
Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer (The Washington Informer)—Suicide claims about 40,000 lives every year in the United States, an alarming statistic that...
(Hollywood Life) – Robin Williams tragically died on Aug. 11, and now the iconic actor’s ashes have been scattered in the San Francisco Bay. While the...
by Pastor E.A. Deckard Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times “For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet…...
(Psych Central) – Older adults who suffer from sleep difficulties are at greater risk of dying from suicide than well-rested adults, according to new research at the Stanford...
(Politico) – Commentators reacted swiftly to condemn remarks conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh made Tuesday during a segment in which Limbaugh suggested actor Robin Williams’...
LOS ANGELES (New York Times) — Peering through his camera at Robin Williams in 2012, the cinematographer John Bailey thought he glimpsed something not previously...
WASHINGTON (Xinhua) — A simple blood test to detect a chemical alteration in a single human gene linked to negative thoughts and impulses may reliably predict a...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I’m tired, my sisterfriend says. I don’t know how much longer I can hold on. As I hear her...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Hardly a week goes by when there is not a tragic story of a teenager committing suicide. Tragic as these...
[Los Angeles Times] It seems to happen often enough that we’re no longer shocked to hear it: A teenager commits suicide after being bullied online by...
