SeaWorld President Jim Atchison is holding a press conference to discuss the tragic death of a trainer killed by an Orca. Atchison’s podium was set up right in front of the killer whale tank, because he does not fear death. Updated with video: More »
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Drugs that kill! Hospitals that kill! Pregnancies that kill! These and other things that kill, in today’s Health Watch—where we keep an eye on health (yours)!
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A coroner says that fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who died last week at the age of 40, committed suicide by hanging himself in his wardrobe. He also reportedly left a suicide note, the contents…
Amy Bishop, the biology professor who shot six of her colleagues, killing three of them, is a paranoid, angry woman who hates kids and was obsessed with a researcher who ended up in a dead-end job….
Walter Frederick Morrison, the inventor of the Frisbee, died this week at home in Utah. Morrison patented the world’s first commercially produced plastic flying disc in 1948, and sold the concept to…
Phil Harris, who captained the crab fishing boat Cornelia Marie through its star turn on Discovery’s Deadliest Catch, has died at the age of 53 as the result of a stroke he suffered last month. Fish…
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Representative John Murtha is dead. The Pennsylvania Democrat, 77, died in an Arlington, Virgina hospital after complications following gall bladder surgery.
Murtha, the powerful chair of the House…