The Alaska State Troopers in Fairbanks say an investigation into a fatal Monday fire has been opened where a two-year-old child was found deceased. The University Fire Department in Fairbanks responded to a report of a residential fire at Goldrush Estates at 4:15 am on Monday morning. When multiple units responded, they found a […]
First suicide attempts are more lethal than previously realized, reports a study of children and adolescentspublished in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP). Seventy-one percent of youth dying by suicide did so on their first attempt, also known as the “index” attempt; the authors also found that firearms are implicated in 85 percent […]
New York Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said the Thursday fire that killed 12 people at an apartment in the Bronx was started by a three and a half-year-old boy playing with a stove. Nigro told reporters Friday the boy’s mother fled the apartment with her son and another child, leaving the door open. The fire […]
No one knows for certain why the Clovis people and iconic beasts — mastodon, mammoth and saber-toothed tiger — living some 12,800 years ago suddenly disappeared. However, a discovery of widespread platinum at archaeological sites across the U.S. by three University of South Carolina archaeologists has provided an important clue in solving this enduring mystery. The research […]