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FOX 5 Las Vegas - Wed Dec 9, 4:59 pm ET
Authorities say a Las Vegas man who shot his wife as part of a suicide pact died of natural causes at a nursing home.
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Las Vegas Sun - Wed Dec 9, 2:26 pm ET
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.
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Williston Herald - Wed Dec 9, 4:37 pm ET
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.
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The Gazette - Tue Dec 8, 8:55 am ET
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 [...]
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KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids - Mon Dec 7, 7:24 pm ET
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.
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Mon Dec 7, 8:30 am ET
The single drug Ohio is preparing to use for its new execution method has a storied history in psychiatry, criminal interrogation and war.
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The Santa Ynez Valley News - Mon Dec 7, 10:21 am ET
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.
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Dallas Morning News - Sun Dec 6, 3:39 am ET
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.
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The Pueblo Chieftain - Sun Dec 6, 1:08 pm ET
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.
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Sat Dec 5, 7:50 pm ET
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.
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The Daily Jeffersonian - Sat Dec 5, 2:16 pm ET
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.
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The Pueblo Chieftain - Sat Dec 5, 2:53 am ET
The Chieftain would like to clarify an article in Friday's newspaper about health care providers and assisted suicide, which is illegal in the state.
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The Wenatchee World - Fri Dec 4, 4:48 pm ET
WASHINGTON — Some people can’t stand prosperity, my father used to say. Today, he might be talking about Republicans, who, in the midst of declining support for President Barack Obama’s hope-and-change agenda, are considering a “purity” pledge to weed out undesirables from their ever-shrinking party.
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The Lantern - Fri Dec 4, 1:47 pm ET
The Netherlands has become the first nation since Hitler’s Germany to legalize euthanasia — the direct killing of patients by physicians. There are restrictions.
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The Pueblo Chieftain - Fri Dec 4, 9:39 am ET
The issue of assisted suicide surfaced in Pueblo this week when an 18-year-old man was arrested for allegedly supplying the gun his father used to kill himself.