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Police investigating the bludgeoning death of a Castleton State College teacher have seized several items from her home, including three cast-iron frying pans.

Fredericton police are asking for the public's help in investigating a strange incident of vandalism that involved the carcasses of two raccoons. The case is apparently more bizarre than police are saying publicly.

A preliminary autopsy report indicated the Sunday night death of a Dixie County man was apparently a freak accident.

Monday, Ocoee police detectives said they may decide whether someone should be charged in the death of a 23-month-old boy. The toddler found a gun in his home early Sunday morning and shot himself in the face.

The shocking death of a Bountiful man was witnessed by his former girlfriend hundreds of miles away today. Twenty-four-year-old Brent MacMillan died from a single, self-inflicted gun shot wound to the chest. His death was witnessed by his ex-girlfriend in California, who watched it via a webcam.

A parachutist has been killed in an attempt to land at a football stadium in France. A teenaged spectator was also killed.

A WEALTHY businessman committed suicide by tying a steel rope to a fence, wrapping it round his neck then speeding off in his car.

An eccentric loner is believed to have died of thirst after becoming trapped in a bizarre and intricate network of tunnels built from rubbish in his home.

A Central Florida man armed only with a large palm frond robbed a store in a crime described by police as one of the most bizarre they've ever seen.