Exec hangs himself as criminal probe heats up
One of the top executives at South Korea’s Lotte Group was found dead Friday, a suspected suicide, hours before he was to be questioned by prosecutors conducting a criminal probe into the country’s...
View ArticleOne vet’s suicide symbolizes the rotten state of the VA
Peter Kaisen, 76, killed himself this week in the parking lot of the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Long Island. The sad tale is all too emblematic of the VA’s failings. Kaisen was a...
View ArticleDisgraced CEO’s cold response to employee’s suicide
A scientist for disgraced blood-test startup Theranos was under intense scrutiny from the company’s founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, when he committed suicide in 2013, it was revealed Wednesday. Ian...
View ArticleAssemblyman who committed suicide wins GOP primary
A dead man won the GOP primary for an upstate Assembly seat Tuesday — while in Manhattan, Alice Cancel, Sheldon Silver’s handpicked would-be successor, was trounced in her bid to win the Lower East...
View ArticleMan killed by subway in apparent suicide
A man was struck and killed by a subway at an Upper West Side subway station Thursday morning in an apparent suicide, police sources said. The unidentified man was hit at the W. 72nd Street-Broadway...
View ArticleFormer Rutgers student pleads guilty in Tyler Clementi case
A former Rutgers University student took a no-jail plea deal Thursday over an infamous cyber-bullying incident that led his roommate to leap to his death from the George Washington Bridge. Dharun Ravi...
View ArticleBipolar man arrested after attempted ‘suicide by cop’
A bipolar man suspected of attempting suicide by cop was arrested and charged Thursday, one day after he was shot by police officers in an early-morning confrontation in Canarsie. Davonte Pressley, 23,...
View ArticleProminent Russian historian found dead in her NYC apartment
A prominent Russian historian was found dead of apparent suicide in her Upper East Side apartment, police sources told The Post on Monday. Michelle Marrese, 52, a scholar in Russian history, was found...
View ArticleCyber-bullying isn’t just popular among teens — it’s deadly
The girl was smart, pretty — and obsessed with the idea of taking her own life. She was just 14 years old. What drives a child to such a dark place — in which death seems the logical escape from...
View ArticleMom says teen son hanged himself after bullies made rape threats
Tragic Brandon Singh Rayat, 15, was found hanged in his bedroom with a scarf after 16 months of relentless physical and psychological abuse. The British teenager became suicidal after his own friends...
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