Archive for the ‘Sad News’ Category

Jackass star Ryan Dunn was killed in a car accident, NBC’s Philadelphia affiliate reports. Dunn, 34, and an unidentified person both died early Monday when their Porsche crashed in West Goshen Township — which happens to be the home of QVC — outside Philadelphia, according to local police. The car flew over the guardrail, slammed into [...]

For any parent, it’s almost too hard to imagine. According to Philadelphia police, a group of parents planned to poison their own children, in hopes of suing for money later on. The children were supposed to go on a field trip in late May or early June. The kids planned to head to a ballpark [...]

Tokyo residents were warned not to give babies tap water because of radiation leaking from a nuclear plant crippled in the earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeast Japan in the world’s costliest natural disaster. The U.N. atomic agency said there had been some positive developments at the Fukushima nuclear plant 250 km (150 miles) north [...]

Japan scrambled to avert a meltdown at a stricken nuclear plant on Monday after a hydrogen explosion at one reactor and exposure of fuel rods at another, just days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 10,000 people. Roads and rail, power and ports have been crippled across much of Japan’s northeast [...]

An 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan on March 11 — one of the largest recorded in the last 100 years. The earthquake triggered a tsunami that swept across parts of northern Japan and caused waves to hit shores as far away as Oregon. About 200 to 300 bodies were found in [...]

Planned Parenthood abortion centers in three states have been caught on undercover video footage ignoring alleged sex traffickers and a new audio file Live Action released today adds a District of Columbia abortion clinic to the list. The audio of the visit by two people engaged in a sting operation at the Planned Parenthood abortion [...]

Forty-two year-old Simone Back announced her intention to commit suicide in a status update on Facebook–and not one of her over 1,000 Facebook friends reached out in person to help. According to the Daily Mail, Back, who committed suicide on Christmas Day, wrote in her Facebook status, “Took all my pills be dead soon bye [...]

Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother-of-five, denies blasphemy and told investigators that she was being persecuted for her faith in a country where Christians face routine harassment and discrimination. Christian groups and human rights campaigners condemned the verdict and called for the blasphemy laws to be repealed. Her supporters say she will now appeal against the [...]

The British businessman who owns the Segway company was killed when he drove one of his famous two-wheeled scooters right off a cliff.