Death
Deadly and diseased snakes seized
October 29, 2007A 19-year-old Australian woman has been charged with keeping a highly venomous death adder, a python and a sick boa constrictor at her home. The Melbourne woman could be fined heavily for keeping the death adder and the olive python, both native to...
British nurses given resuscitation power
October 29, 2007Giving Britain's senior nurses the power to make life or death decisions has intensified the debate over the ethics of caring for the seriously ill. "This sounds like yet another nail in the coffin for vulnerable and elderly patients," said...
Mom who stabbed kids sentenced to life
October 25, 2007A Michigan woman was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for the stabbing deaths of her two young daughters. Jennifer Kukla, 31, of Macomb Township was found guilty but mentally ill in a jury trial last month, the Detroit Free-Press said. She was...
Boy nearly dies tangled in decoration
October 25, 2007A 6-year-old Tampa, Fla., boy narrowly escaped death after being chocked by a decorative nylon Halloween spider web hanging in his home. Cade Hampton was unable to breathe Wednesday with strands of nylon around his neck when he was found by his parents...
Defense rests in boot camp death trial
October 11, 2007Closing arguments are scheduled Thursday in the trial of seven former Florida boot camp drill instructors and a nurse charged in the death of a 14-year-old boy. Henry Dickens, Charles Enfinger, Patrick Garrett, Raymond Hauck, Charles Helms Jr., Henry...
Video released of airport death
October 05, 2007A newly released video of a woman who died in custody at the Phoenix airport shows her struggling strenuously with police. The video taken at Sky Harbor Airport shows several police officers trying to subdue Carol Ann Gotbaum, who was arrested for...
Family needs answers on guardswoman death
October 03, 2007A Massachusetts family is waiting for answers in the death of Ciara Durkin, a National Guardswoman shot dead on a base in Afghanistan. Durkin’s brother, Pierce, told The Boston Globe the family has been told only that she was killed by a single...
Vietnam, China brace for tropical storm
October 02, 2007Tropical storm Lekima, having caused death and destruction in the Philippines, was headed toward Vietnam and China. The South China Sea storm, which also carries the name "Hanna," carried winds of about 40 mph, China's state-run Xinhua news...
RFE/RL Mourns Death of Russian Journalist Anna Politkovskaya
October 09, 2006(Prague, Czech Republic--October 9, 2006) RFE/RL Acting President Jeffrey Trimble released the following statement in reaction to the death of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow October 7, 2006. "I and my colleagues at RFE/RL are...
