Red Cross volunteer who helped remove 6 women killed in store fire commits suicide in Barbados

Barbados Red Cross volunteer hangs self after fire

Russian nursing home blaze kills 9; officials say 86-year-old man apparently set self on fire

Suicide blaze kills 9 in Russian nursing home

Detained prisoner says twin Uganda World Cup bombings were meant to kill more Americans

Uganda suicide plot meant to kill more Americans

Wake held for mother, 4 children found dead in murder-suicide at burning NYC home

Wake held for family killed in NYC murder-suicide

Mother’s death is ruled a suicide in fire in NYC that also killed her 4 children

Mother’s death in NYC fire is ruled a suicide

Police investigate 5 deaths in NYC house fire as murder-suicide; 2 victims’ throats slashed

Police suspect murder-suicide in NYC house fire

China says police will fire on future school attackers, ‘and without mercy’

China says police will fire on school attackers

Alabama girl, 15, jumps to her death off overpass amid bullying, grief over sister’s death

Alabama girl jumps to death; bullying investigated

3 back-to-back suicide bombs target embassies in central Baghdad; at least 35 killed

Baghdad suicide blasts target embassies; 35 dead

Iraqi police: 3 suicide blasts in Baqouba kill 6, wound 20 ahead of key elections

Iraqi police: Suicide blasts in Baqouba kill 6

Officials in Pennsylvania say 2 teens struck by Amtrak train committed suicide

Officials: Pa. train double-fatal a suicide

Police in Pa. checking into whether 2 teens struck by Amtrak train committed suicide

Police: Pa. train double-fatal could be suicide

Widow of IRS worker killed in Texas plane attack sues pilot’s wife, seeks to determine assets

IRS worker’s widow sues Texas suicide pilot’s wife

Police: Ga. Mother drowned daughter, tried to kill son, then fatally shot herself

Police: Ga. mother drowned daughter, killed self

Authorities say separate collisions with commuter trains near San Francisco kill 2

2 people die in separate Calif. train collisions

With echoes of violence and crackling gunfire, sports says goodbye to some of its best in 2009

Sounds of violence: sports deaths in 2009

Sports in 2009 looked down the barrel of a gun.