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Authorities in New York City say a man who tried to jump to his death from his ninth floor apartment was saved by a heap of trash bags that had gone uncollected since last week's blizzard.

Clay Duke approached the front of the room, spray-painted a red "V" on the wall and brandished a small handgun. He ordered the room cleared of everyone but six men, witnesses say.

Mark Madoff was feeling increasingly despondent about his worsening legal situation in the days leading up to his death. But the trustee recovering assets for victims of his father's Ponzi scheme says the suits will continue.

A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that a son of Bernard Madoff has been found dead in New York City of an apparent suicide.

The owner of a failed security business barricaded himself in his soon-to-be foreclosed home, shot at deputies and then killed himself in this well-groomed Central Florida town built by Disney.

A man wanted for questioning in the slaying of a Hollywood publicist killed himself in the lobby of a dreary Los Angeles hotel as police closed in with a search warrant -- the latest mysterious turn in a case that began on a posh stretch of Beverly Hills.

A 15-year-old boy took 23 of his classmates and a teacher hostage in a classroom at a small-town Wisconsin high school on Monday, shooting himself as police broke in.

Police and neighbors were searching for three young Michigan boys Saturday who have been missing since their father claimed he dropped them off with a woman before trying to kill himself a day earlier.

The double-shooting of Australian twin sisters that left one of the women dead was a suicide pact, investigators said Thursday after interviewing the surviving sister.

Twin sisters from Australia were both shot in the head at an outdoor Colorado shooting range, killing one of the women and leaving the other critically injured, authorities said Tuesday. The Herald Sun, an Australian newspaper, is reporting that the two sisters made a suicide pact.