An overnight fire traps a teenager and two children inside a Chicago home. Jamaya Herron, 18, died at the scene. Firefighters rescued the other kids.

The 17-year-old daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand plunged to her death from a Midtown luxury high-rise early Friday morning, the Daily News has learned.

Durand Robinson, 50, of Decatur, an owner of the popular Traxx Atlanta club and promotion team, was shot after he got into an altercation with another person, the station reported.

Charles W. Bowser, 79, a tenacious advocate of racial fairness and an influential civic leader whose two campaigns for Philadelphia mayor inspired a generation of African American political leaders, died Monday from complications of Alzheimer’s disease at HCR Manor Care in King of Prussia.

DILLINGHAM, Alaska — Former Sen. Ted Stevens lay dead in the mangled fuselage of the plane. A 13-year-old boy escaped death but his father died a few feet away. Medical workers spent the miserable night tending to survivors’ broken bones amid a huge slick of fuel that coated a muddy mountainside.

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Via: Baltimore Sun A 48-year-old woman was killed Sunday afternoon when her 1994 Camaro flipped over on the Harford Rd. ramp of the beltway’s inner loop about 5:15 p.m. Danita Hasselbarth was pronounced dead at the scene. SHe lost control of her vehicle and swerved onto a grassy area and then careened backward onto a […]

From MSNBC: NEW YORK — Michael Jackson’s estate has generated at least $1 billion in revenues since the singer died a year ago, thanks in part to a lucrative new record deal with Sony Music and the most successful concert film of all time, according to Billboard estimates.

JOHANNESBURG — A somber and frail Nelson Mandela attended the funeral Thursday for his 13-year-old great-granddaughter, whose death in a car crash last week following the World Cup’s opening concert marked a tragic start to the tournament.

In an interview with a British publication, Joe Jackson, patriarch of the famous Jackson family, blames his wife, Katherine Jackson, for the death of their son, Michael Jackson.

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Via: WJZ-TV Alphonso Gaye died Monday after his motorcycle crashed into a pole after swerving to avoid hitting a dirt bike driven by an adult with a baby on the seat. The driver of the dirt bike has not been identified by police. After Gaye hit the light pole, the driver of the dirt bike […]