A recent study conducted by a University of Mississippi psychologist has unveiled data that suggests adolescents, especially African-American boys, are at a higher risk for self-harm. SEE ALSO: NBA’s Birdman Probed For Online Crimes Against Kids Dr. Kim Gratz collected data from six middle and high schools in Mississippi. Because of the size of the […]
TRENTON, N.J. – A former Rutgers University freshman who prosecutors said used a webcam to spy on his roommate’s same-sex encounter was charged Wednesday with a hate crime and accused of deleting tweets and texts to cover up his tracks. Dharun Ravi, 19, was indicted in Middlesex County on 15 counts including bias intimidation and […]
NEW YORK– A mother and 3 of her children died after she drove her minivan into the Hudson River last night.
Greenwood — USA Today is reporting on an incident called a suicide by authorities, that the NAACP thinks may actually be a lynching. The county sheriff says that a 26-year-old black man, Frederick Jermaine Carter, found hanged from an oak tree in Greenwood, Miss., apparently committed suicide, but the president of the local NAACP challenges […]
Corey Jackson, a sophomore at Oakland College in Michigan recently committed suicide and his parents are saying that it was another case of gay bullying resulting in suicide, according to Click On Detroit. Jackson’s family said he recently revealed to them that he was a homosexual, and that they believe he was bullied over his […]
Tyler Perry told Oprah about being abused as a child on a show that will air this Wednesday according to Contact Music.In the interview, he told her that the abuse led to suicide efforts. The mogul recalled being beaten and sexually abused by a male and a female relative – and how he once blacked […]
Police have identified the body of a woman found hanging from a tree early Saturday morning on east Myrtle Street and are trying to locate her family and anyone else who might know her.
People Magazine is reporting that Fantasia has admitted that her recent overdose was a suicide attempt. “I didn’t have any fight in me. I didn’t care about anything. I just wanted out,” the American Idol winner, 26, tells VH1 in a new Behind the Music interview, airing 9 p.m. ET/PT Tuesday, the same day her […]
TMZ has obtained the 911 call made on Monday night from somebody concerned that "American Idol" champ Fantasia Barrino had just ingested a "bottle of aspirin."
From the Washington Post: Allen Kruse had been a charter fishing boat captain for more than two decades — long enough that people called him by his boat’s name, Rookie, as if they were one and the same. But then, two months ago, the leaking BP oil well began pouring crude into the waters where […]
Formspring.me is a fairly new social networking site used by teenagers, mainly designed to allow users to anonymously post questions and comments on other users pages; however, it is growing a reputation as a place to gossip and insult people by posting profane, sexual and intentionally hurtful things.
