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Monday, April 15, 2013  Police say three people whose bodies were found inside a Topeka home died in an apparent double murder-suicide.

Thursday, March 21, 2013  A southwest Missouri sheriff says the deaths of a husband and wife in a home north of Joplin appear to have been a murder-suicide.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013  Updated with video: A Florida college student's plan to launch a massive murder spree was thrown off by campus police offiers' fast response

Monday, February 18, 2013  Country star Mindy McCready dies in apparent suicide after chart-topping career, stormy life

Thursday, January 31, 2013  Officials are investigating the death of a 22-year-old Miller County Inmate.

Tuesday, January 08, 2013  The two had made a suicide pact if faced with arrest.

Tuesday, January 01, 2013  Authorities believe a rural northeast Missouri man shot and killed his wife, then turned the gun on himself.

Thursday, December 13, 2012  Nurse Jacintha Saldanha was discovered hanging by a scarf from a wardrobe in her nurses' quarters by a colleague and a member of security staff at London's King Edward VII Hospital.

Monday, December 10, 2012  Dallas Cowboy Jerry Brown was killed in a car crash that had teammate Josh Brent behind the wheel

Wednesday, December 05, 2012  Story update: The NBC sportscaster said Tuesday that he wishes he had more time to talk.

Tuesday, December 04, 2012  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Police say the Kansas City Chiefs had been providing counseling to linebacker Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend before he killed her and committed suicide over the weekend.

Monday, December 03, 2012  Israel Keyes, who had also confessed to killing a Vermont couple, was found dead in his cell Sunday.

Monday, December 03, 2012  Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend, 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, had lived apart briefly earlier in the year but had gotten back together by Thanksgiving, according to a friend.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012  The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a former southwest Missouri police officer shot and killed his wife and critically injured her mother before killing himself.

Wednesday, October 03, 2012  Three suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in a government-controlled area of the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday.