A man distraught because he could not find work shot and killed his mother-in-law, his wife and three sons and then killed himself inside a home in an upscale San Fernando Valley neighborhood, police said.

The man was naked, teetering on a building ledge and jabbing at police with an 8-foot-long fluorescent light bulb as a crowd gathered below.

A cartoon book has been taken off the shelves by a Shanghai bookstore over fears that it has contributed to a spate of suicides and suicide attempts by children.

A 33-year-old man who tried cutting off his arm inside a busy Denny's restaurant because he believed it would save his life was arrested Friday night, according to Modesto police.

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.