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Police launch a multi-agency investigation into the deceased suspect's strange crime spree.

Miller's death renewed concerns about the progress of court-ordered reforms at Orleans Parish Prison, where court testimony this week indicates he was left alone despite having expressed suicidal thoughts.

The Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office said Sunday that an inmate being held there committed suicide.

White's father disputes that his son would have shot himself.

Williams' 25-year-old daughter Zelda released a statement Tuesday, saying, "I'll never, ever understand how he could be loved so deeply and not find it in his heart to stay."

A husband in Opelousas fatally shot his wife in the head Friday night before turning the gun on himself.

Police say the suspect, Jessie Aron Gordon, had arrest warrants from several agencies in the Baton Rouge area.

The wife had requested an order of protection.

Officials are not attributing the decrease to the end of the Iraq war and the drawdown in Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense officials say suicides across the military have dropped by more than 22 percent this year, amid an array of new programs targeting what the Defense Department calls an epidemic that took more service members' lives last year than the war in Afghanistan did during that same period...

Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Savannah Williams says 47-yeaer-old Karen Diamond shot and killed her mother, 84-year-old Eula Diamond, and the family dog before shooting herself.

An autopsy will be conducted by the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The three victims of Ariel Castro are declining to comment on the news that the man who held them prisoner in his home for a decade has taken his own life in an Ohio prison. But prosecutor Tim McGinty says it shows that Castro "couldn't take, for even a month, a small portion of what he had dished out for more than a decade...

Two passengers in the victim's vehicle, a six month old infant and a 37-year-old male, have been transported to a local hospital for injuries.

A woman who was preparing to be sentenced for mail fraud was found dead early this morning. Lafayette Sheriff's Authorities say Danielle Guidroz of Youngsville has died of an apparent suicide.

Newstalk 96.5 KPEL has an update on a murder an suicide in St. Landry Parish.

An update to an ongoing story.

Police in Calcasieu Parish are investigating an apparent suicide after a man jumped to his death off a bridge.

A man sought by New Orleans police as a suspect in the stabbing death of his father, Robert Rider Sr., last week committed suicide yesterday at the end of a slow speed chase.  Robert Rider Jr. was pronounced dead at a local hospital not long after shooting himself in the head in the Lakeview area of the city...

A shooting over the weekend ended the life of Tige Riley.