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A dark-humored Web site offers despairing Facebook users a way out of the social network. The Seppukoo.com Web site Lets people hoping to leave the popular social-networking site commit "Facebook seppuku" in five easy steps.
An employee at a local pet store is urging area residents to take appropriate measures in safely dealing with unwanted pets after discovering someone who clearly didn't this weekend.
OSU has halted a baboon study, infuriating scientists. Are animal-rights extremists finally getting their way?
A dark-humored Web site offers despairing Facebook users a way out of the social network. The Seppukoo.com Web site Lets people hoping to leave the popular social-networking site commit "Facebook seppuku" in five easy steps.
The leak of a so-called “Danish text” that would sideline the U.N. in future climate deals is reverberating around the Copenhagen negotiations. Today I witnessed an unexpected and extraordinary outburst of candor from one of the key players in these negotiations – Lumumba Di-Aping, chief negotiator of the G77 bloc of mostly poor countries.
Facebook makes you despair? Social networking makes you want to end it all? You may be ready for online ritual suicide with the aid of a new website that helps you kill your virtual identity.
Authorities say a Las Vegas man who shot his wife as part of a suicide pact died of natural causes at a nursing home.
An 86-year-old man facing criminal charges for allegedly shooting his wife in what authorities called a suicide pact has died and the case against him has been dismissed. Joseph C. Woods was scheduled to be arraigned today.
A state medical examiner said today that a Mount Pleasant man shot himself at a home southwest of Crawfordsville in early November. Investigators say 37-year-old Ryan Scarff and his girlfriend had a suicide pact. They believe after Scarff shot himself Nov. 3, his girlfriend then also shot him. Investigators say she shot him while in a “state of [...]
WASHINGTON COUNTY- The state medical examiner says a Mount Pleasant man shot himself as part of a suicide pact. Investigators say Ryan Scarff, 37, and his girlfriend tried to take their own lives through carbon monoxide poisoning.
Mandatory pet-sterilization laws do work to combat pet overpopulation, although it may take a few years, according to officials in other California counties that have implemented such programs.
The single drug Ohio is preparing to use for its new execution method has a storied history in psychiatry, criminal interrogation and war.
Odds and ends . . . Sheriff's deputies used a Taser, an electric stun gun attached to wires with barbs, on a 10-year-old boy this week.
Garland Animal Services officials say they're on target to meet a goal of shifting the euthanization of 3,000 animals from gas to lethal injection next year.
Barring a successful legal challenge, sodium pentothal will be used Tuesday on Kenneth Biros, who would become the first person in the United States put to death with a single drug.
COLUMBUS (AP) - The single drug Ohio is preparing to use for its new execution method has a storied history in psychiatry, criminal interrogation and war. Barring a successful legal challenge, sodium pentothal will be used Tuesday on Kenneth Biros, who would become the first person in the United States put to death with a single drug.
