Former New England Patriots star tight end Aaron Hernandez killed himself overnight in his prison cell, the Massachusetts Department of Corrections said Wednesday morning. Hernandez hanged himself with a bedsheet and tried to block his single-occupancy cell’s door, officials said; he was found at about 3 a.m. and pronounced dead at the hospital. The former…
Mark Mayfield, vice chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party, and one of three men charged with conspiring to photograph U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s bedridden wife in her nursing home, has committed suicide.
Richard “Dick” Trickle — who parlayed a legendary reputation as a short-track driver into a full-time career on stock car racing’s biggest stages in the 1990s — died Thursday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, a North Carolina sheriff’s office said. He was 71. A Lincoln County dispatcher received a call — believed to have…
Country music star Mindy McCready was found dead at her home in Arkansas from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the local sheriff’s office said in a statement. Read more from CNN
