Death

STANTON, Ky.—A man died and a woman was injured when they lost control of their vehicle at an off-road adventure park in eastern Kentucky and it fell off an 80-foot cliff, officials said. Crews responded to a report that a utility task vehicle crashed Saturday evening at Hollerwood Off-Road Adventure Park, Powell County Search and […]

GOLDEN, Colo.—A Colorado man who was placed on life support after he was bitten by his pet Gila monster died of complications from the desert lizard’s venom, an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press on Friday confirmed. The report also found that heart and liver problems were significant contributing factors in Christopher Ward’s death. […]

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett’s lawsuit could continue posthumously, and his estate could be substituted as the complainant, his attorney has said. Barnett worked for over 30 years at Boeing before retiring in 2017. He was a vocal critic of the company’s safety and production quality, and a crucial witness in a whistleblower lawsuit against Boeing. […]

TOKYO—Akira Toriyama, the creator of the best-selling Dragon Ball and other popular anime who influenced Japanese comics, has died, his studio said Friday. He was 68. Mr. Toriyama’s Dragon Ball manga series, which started in 1984, has sold millions of copies globally and was adapted into hugely popular animated TV shows, video games, and films. […]

MOSCOW—Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died his own death, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief, Sergei Naryshkin, was quoted as saying on Thursday. “I don’t think this was some kind of special plan, but unfortunately, people have a peculiarity: sooner or later life ends, they die. Navalny died a natural death, yes,” Russian news agencies […]

Chris Mortensen, the award-winning journalist who covered the NFL for close to four decades, including 32 as a senior analyst at ESPN, died Sunday morning. He was 72. ESPN confirmed Mortensen’s death on Sunday. There was no immediate word on the cause or place of death. “Mort was widely respected as an industry pioneer and […]

The cause of death for the son of “Pawn Stars” star Rick Harrison has been released, just over a month after his death. The television personality’s son, Adam Harrison, died at a home in the Las Vegas area on Jan. 19 at the age of 39. Family members, including his father, had previously told TMZ that […]

Stacy Wakefield, the widow of former Boston Red Sox pitcher and two-time World Series champion Tim Wakefield, has died. Her family said in a statement released through the Red Sox that she died Wednesday at her Massachusetts home, less than five months after her husband died at the age of 57. Ms. Wakefield was 53, […]

MUSKEGON, Mich.—A Michigan man who pleaded guilty in his disabled brother’s starvation death was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 30 years in prison by a judge who said the defendant is “one step away from becoming a psychopath.” Paul Ferguson, 21, pleaded guilty in December to first-degree child abuse in the death of 15-year-old […]

A recent report indicated that Angela Chao, the sister-in-law of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who was killed in a car accident earlier this month, may have died as a result of drowning. Ms. Chao’s vehicle crashed into a body of water on a private Texas property on Feb. 11. The local Sheriff’s Office reported that […]

A Colorado man has died after being bitten by his pet Gila monster in what would be a rare death by one of the desert lizards if the creature’s venom turns out to have been the cause. Christopher Ward, 34, was taken to a hospital shortly after being bitten by one of his two pet […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A young girl was buried in sand and died Tuesday when a deep hole she was digging with a little boy collapsed on them both at a south Florida beach, authorities said. Emergency crews responding around 3 p.m. to Lauderdale-by-the-Sea found the boy, who is about 8 years old, buried up his chest […]

Australian citizen Yang Hengjun will not appeal a suspended death sentence handed down by Beijing, his family revealed, saying it would be “detrimental to his welfare.” His family believes the process could delay access to supervised medical care. Mr. Yang is an Australian citizen born in China. He was a pro-democracy blogger and spy novelist, […]

DENVER—A student was arrested Monday on murder charges over the shootings of two people who were found dead in a dorm room last week at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, police said. The Colorado Springs Police Department said they arrested Nicholas Jordan, 25, without incident on two counts of first-degree murder. Mr. Jordan was a […]

Civil and human rights attorney Gerard Filitti offers his perspective on the recent death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

President Joe Biden on Friday reacted in a speech to the death of Russian politician Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of the Kremlin, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of assassinating him. “Russian authorities are going to tell their own story. Make no mistake. Putin is responsible for Alexei Navalny’s death,” President Biden told reporters. “What […]

Russia’s most prominent political opposition leader and ardent critic of the Putin government, Alexei Navalny, collapsed and died on Friday, Feb. 16, in an Arctic penal colony where he was serving an extended jail term. Mr. Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, was vocal about official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests. He has been incarcerated […]