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He is found dead in downtown Nashville with an unidentified female victim.

Steve McNair, a former NFL co-most valuable player, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head today in downtown Nashville, police said.

A distraught caller trying to save the life of a 2-year-old Florida girl strangled by a pet python screamed 'The baby's dead!' in chilling 911 tapes released in the toddler's death.

After a string of real celebrity deaths last week, the Internet and online social networks killed a few more stars.

A freight train derailed and plowed into houses in a small Italian town, setting off an explosion and fire that killed at least 12 people — many as they slept in their homes — and injured at least 50, officials said Tuesday.

A medical examiner in Florida says Mays, a voluble TV pitchman, showed no evidence of head trauma.

Police say a New York man running to the aid of another motorist fell to his death from a bridge, apparently because he didn't know there was a large gap between lanes.

Pop giant Michael Jackson, who took to the stage as a child star and went on to set the world dancing to the thumping rhythms of his music for decades, died Thursday, TMZ website reported.

An Iowa high school football coach was shot Wednesday inside the school as athletes were lifting weights, the district superintendent told CNN.

Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, whose struggle against breast cancer during a winter at the South Pole captivated the world, ...

The rush-hour collision on the busy Red Line injured dozens of people. Those killed include the operator of one train. It's the first fatal crash for the Metro train system since 1982.