Body of Sheila Abdus-Salaam, First U.S. Female Muslim Judge Found in Hudson River
The body of Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first female Muslim judge in the United States, was found floating in the Hudson River Wednesday afternoon.
Charlie Murphy Dies From Leukemia at 57
TMZ is reporting the sad news that Charlie Murphy, comedian and older brother of Eddie, has died in a New York City hospital at the age of 57 after a battle with Leukemia. Details are scarce at the moment, but “his manager says he’d been going through chemo.” The news comes eight years after Murphy lost his wife Tisha…
Voodoo Doughnut Won't Have Eating Contests for Awhile After Man Chokes to Death During One
Oregon staple Voodoo Doughnut has suspended its eating contests after a man died while attempting to eat a half-pound donut at their Denver location early Sunday morning.
Darlene Cates, Who Played the Mother in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Has Died
TMZ reports Tuesday that Darlene Cates, the actress best known for playing Bonnie “Momma” Grape in Lasse Hallstrom’s peculiar 1993 drama What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, “died Sunday morning in her sleep” at the age of 69.
Hannah Storm Announces Live On SportsCenter That John Saunders Is Dead
Longtime ESPN personality John Saunders is dead, as reported live this morning on SportsCenter by anchor Hannah Storm.
The Best of Miss Cleo, Iconic ‘90s TV Psychic
Youree Dell Harris, known to many as Miss Cleo, died Tuesday morning at age 53 in Palm Beach County, FL. TMZ reports she was “originally diagnosed with colon cancer,” but that it spread to her liver and lungs. She was with friends and family when she died.
Dying in a Gun Homicide in Japan Is as Rare as Dying by Lightning Strike in the U.S.
Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz of the New York Times compiled data on gun death that shows the United States as the outlier it is, at least among developed countries. The article was originally published in 2015, but there has been cause for recent updates.
Kim Kardashian, a Chicken, Is Dead
After spending what we hope was a happy life in a frequently shit-filled coop in upstate New York, Kim Kardashian, a chicken, is now dead. The small-brained, flightless creature once provided eggs to legendary actress and singer Bette Midler, but People is reporting that she has since gone to the Other Side.
Medical Examiner Says Prince Died of an Accidental Opioid Overdose
An anonymous law enforcement official close to the investigation surrounding Prince’s death has informed the Associated Press that musician—who was found dead on April 21 at Paisley Park in Minneapolis—passed away because of an overdose of fentanyl.
RIP John McLaughlin, the Animator Who Took Us On a Roller Coaster Ride To the Movies
For many of us who attended movies in the mid-90s and early aughts, the journey to the feature presentation was only half over after finding a seat. After the trivia slideshows and trailers, we had to take a ride on a roller coaster through a zero-gravity fantasy land filled with floating film reels, IMAX-sized…
Patton Oswalt Writes Heartbreaking Eulogy for the Late Michelle McNamara: 'She’s Left a Blast Crater'
In a gut-wrenching eulogy published by Time, comedian Patton Oswalt mourns his wife, the acclaimed crime writer Michelle McNamara, who passed away suddenly on April 21, 2016.
Prince's Remains Are Cremated, Intimate Ceremony Held in His Honor
On Saturday, April 23, an intimate group of Prince’s family, friends, and fellow musicians gathered to bid him farewell. The iconic musician’s remains were cremated at an unspecified time after his body was released to his family on April 22.
Disneyland Paris Employee Found Dead in Theme Park Haunted House
In a story that’s a couple days old, but eternally upsetting, an employee of Disneyland Paris was found dead in the Phantom Manor—Europe’s equivalent of the Haunted Mansion—on April 4.
A Brief List of Some of the Many Terrible Things Antonin Scalia Said and Wrote
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died at the age of 79 on Saturday. It was an apparently peaceful death, by all accounts, in his bedroom at a West Texas luxury resort after a weekend of quail hunting. He has children and grandchildren and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to mourn him; let’s not do that here. Because Scalia,…
Brian Bedford, Voice of Disney's Hottest Cartoon Fox, Has Passed Away at 80
In a week already rife with loss, Brian Bedford—theater great and voice of Robin Hood (i.e. the first cartoon animal you ever looked at and thought “I would definitely hit that”)—has passed away at the age of 80.
Mother Kills Son in Hospital Room Before Taking Own Life
An Arizona mother named Lola “Tammy” Griffith, whose child was a patient at a Phoenix-area children’s hospital, took his life before she took her own. Nurses found Griffith and 5-year-old Helious, dead inside the child’s hospital room during a 2 a.m. bed check. While police have not disclosed how the boy passed away,…
Cops Ticketing a Manspreading Subway Rider End Up Catching a Murderer
Early in the morning on October 28, transit officers on an A train at Columbus Circle in Manhattan were about to write 43-year-old Gregory White a ticket for the disorderly-conduct offense of taking up more than one subway seat. When they went to run his name through the system, they discovered that White was wanted…
Conspiracy Corner: The Real Avril Lavigne Is Dead. The Avril You Know Is a Body Double.
A lot of important people died in 2004: Ray Charles, Jerry Orbach, ODB, Avril Lavigne.
Novelist Jackie Collins Is Dead at 77
Last night, British writer Jackie Collins died in her home in Los Angeles. Collins was 77. Her family said the cause was breast cancer which she was diagnosed with in 2007.
