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    Fatal falls trigger mother of UCSB grad who died in Isla Vista cliff fall two years ago

    SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif.-The mother of a UCSB graduate who died in an Isla Vista cliff fall during alumni weekend two years ago can't believe it has happened again. Heather Havens' son Chasen Alibrando, 26, fatally fell on Friday night April 29, 2022. Jake Parker, 23, fell during a daytime alumni celebration on Saturday, April

  • Albuquerque mom arrested after special needs son dies

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque woman is behind bars after police say she starved her special needs son to death. Marcella Montelongo, 23, is in jail after Albuquerque police say she killed her 5-year-old son. According to the criminal complaint, the Albuquerque Police Department was called to Montelongo's home in July where her son was []

  • Reader's View: Let Minnesotans choose to peacefully die

    I believe that, when appropriate, people should be able to choose when they die.

  • Airbnb invites you to die very stupidly by falling out of its replica of the house from Up

    The Klingons teach us—probably—that every living being is really just searching for the perfect death. To that end: What could be a more fitting end than to be the person who forgets they booked Airbnb’s floating Up house, walks out their rented front door one morning, and plummets off their front step and straight into the annals of (extremely fatal) history? The “hotels but without all those pesky extras like quality control” booker announced its new “Icons” line of gimmick rentals this week,...

  • Climber dies after 1,000ft fall from Alaska mountain

    The two-person climbing team were ascending ‘the Escalator’ on Mt Johnson, an 8,400-foot peak in Denali National Park, when they fell

  • Climber dies after 1,000-foot fall on Alaska peak

    Another climbing party witnessed the fall and helped tend to the woman’s climbing partner.

  • Climber dies after 1,000-foot fall on Alaska peak

    Another climbing party witnessed the fall and helped tend to the woman’s climbing partner.

  • The Guardian view on the French left: divided it will fall and fail, again

    The radical right is set to dominate forthcoming European elections. Progressives need a fresh start and a new approachThe political signals coming from France are ominous. According to one poll last week, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party (RN) has increased its lead to a runaway 15 points ahead of June’s European elections. For Emmanuel Macron, who pledged to use the French presidency to halt the rise of the far right, all indicators point to a humiliating defeat that would overshadow the...

  • Colorado mom who went missing in 2020 died by homicide, autopsy says

    A missing Colorado woman whose body was discovered in September died by homicide, with drugs often used as animal tranquilizers in her system, an autopsy report concluded. Suzanne Morphew, who vanished in May 2020, "died as a result of homicide by unspecified means in the setting of butorphanol, azaperone, and medetomidine intoxication," according to the El Paso County coroner's report, obtained Monday by NBC News. "The drugs are marketed as a compound injectable chemical immobilizer for...

  • Body of climber who died after 1,000ft fall recovered from Alaska mountain

    Robbi Mecus, 52, and climbing partner, who was rescued and hospitalized, fell from Mount Johnson in Denali national parkA helicopter crew on Saturday recovered the body of a climber who died after falling about 1,000ft (305 metres) while on a steep, technical route on Mount Johnson in Alaska’s Denali national park and preserve, park officials said in a statement.Robbi Mecus, 52, of Keene Valley, New York, died of injuries sustained in a fall Thursday while climbing a route on the south-east face...

  • Climber dies after 2 fall on mountain in Denali National Park in Alaska

    One climber died and another was seriously injured after the two-person team fell around 1,000 feet while climbing a mountain in Alaska’s Denali National Park, officials said Friday, The fall off Mount Johnson occurred Thursday night, the National Park Service said in a statement. The climbers were roped together and climbing the 5,000-foot route known as “the Escalator” when they fell, the park officials said. Their names were not released. The second climber suffered "serious traumatic...