A law enforcement officer fell to his death from a ninth-floor window in Jersey City Friday morning, according to officials, sparking an investigation. The stunning scene unfolded at the Hudson County Administration Building on Newark Avenue just before 9:30 a.

Elijah Heacock's parents had never heard of sextortion before their son died by suicide. Now, they're fighting to protect other families.

While auras may come from the realm of pseudoscience, all living beings do emit a faint light, invisible to the human eye—one that is extinguished upon death. This is the conclusion of a team of researchers from the University of Calgary, Canada, who used a special camera to study such "ultraweak photon emission" (UPE) in mice.

A former upstate New York prison guard pleaded guilty Friday for his role in what prosecutors called a coverup of the beating death of inmate by fellow guards.

Stephen Stanko, a South Carolina death row inmate, chose lethal injection after a firing squad execution was criticized as "botched" and raised concerns about execution methods.

The sheriff's office said the man's parents were in the home when they heard a gunshot outside. When they went to check it out, they found him with a gunshot wound.

While Australian family lunches may notoriously be rowdy affairs, no one expects to die from a beef Wellington served under the pretext of a chat about medical issues.

A Washington state woman is suing seven oil and gas companies, saying they contributed to an extraordinarily hot day that led to her mother’s fatal hyperthermia in one of the nation’s first wrongful-d

A burgeoning new sporting trend inspired by the biggest full contact hits in American football and rugby has proved deadly, and there’s now calls for it to be banned.

The body was discovered at about 08:30 on Saturday in the Calder Road area of Motherwell. Part of the road was closed to drivers and pedestrians while forensic experts experts examined the scene. A police spokesperson said inquiries were ongoing, and the public were being asked to avoid the area of possible.