Davy Jones, who as lead singer of The Monkees proved a pre-fab pop music career could last a lifetime, died from a heart attack Wednesday in Stuart, Fla. He was 66.
The news came as a shock, since he had remained active as a singer, actor and seemingly tireless performer.
Jones rose to fame alongside fellow Monkees Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz and Mike Nesmith in…
Legendary R&B singer Etta James -- famous for her hit songs "At Last" and "Something's Got a Hold on Me" -- has died.
The singer -- who was diagnosed with leukemia in 2010 -- has struggled with serious health problems for years. Etta also suffered from dementia and Hepatitis C.
Etta died at a hospital in Riverside, California ... her…
A case of brotherly love in North Carolina turned deadly after a young man agreed to eat cocaine hidden in his older sibling's buttocks, then died of an overdose.
Deangelo Mitchell is seen in a police car video guilting his brother into injesting the illegal substance because, he is heard saying, "I can't get no more strikes."
Daddy Yankee died in a single vehicle crash on Route 80 between Morristown and Roswell. He was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics responding to the vehicle accident and was identified by photo ID found on his body. Alcohol and drugs do not appear to have been a factor in this accident - December 17, 2011
Highway Safety Investigators have told reporters that…
A gunman perched on a Brooklyn rooftop opened fire Friday, grazing an 11-year-old girl and killing a pregnant woman who was shielding several of her kids.
A second woman was wounded when the the gunman unleashed a hail of bullets from atop a building near Public School 298 in Brownsville about 2:30 p.m., police said.
Sylvia Robinson, who flipped the switch that started turning rap music from a New York street phenomenon into the country's dominant pop music sound, died Thursday morning at Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus.
She was 75 and reportedly suffered from congestive heart failure.
Robinson may be best known to many music and movie fans for the 1957… Continue
An unemployed Cincinnati man with no health insurance died after a tooth infection spread to his brain because he couldn't afford treatment, relatives said.
Kyle Willis, 24, came down with a toothache two weeks ago and was told he needed to have one of his wisdom teeth removed.
But Willis - whose uncle is famed bass player Bootsy Collins - decided to tough… Continue
Nick Ashford, who with his wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of Motown's most powerful love duets, died Monday in a New York hospital.
He was 69 and had been undergoing radiation treatments for throat cancer.
Ashford and Simpson wrote Motown's two favorite "Ain't" songs, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing,"… Continue
Four adults have been charged in the brutal killing of a 10-year-old family member who was stuffed a locked storage container as punishment for taking a Popsicle out of the freezer, police said.
Initially, authorities declared Ame Deal was a "death unknown," after her family said she had died accidentally while playing hide-and-seek with other children… Continue
The organs of a 15-year-old boy killed in a Queens car crash involving hoopster Lamar Odom have been donated, sources said.
The boy, identified by sources as Ewsas Islam, was riding a scooter in Woodside on Thursday afternoon when a car with Odom in the backseat hit a motorcycle that then smashed into the boy.
A northern California man was sucked into an ocean blowhole and killed while clowning around at a popular tourist spot in Maui, authorities said.
Dozens of tourists visiting Nakalele Point, the northernmost point of Maui, watched in horror on Saturday as David Potts, 44, of San Anselmo, Calif., was swept into the area's famous geyser-like blowhole after a violent… Continue
A teen slumber party in California turned into a parent's worst nightmare after a 14-year-old girl was found dead in her bedroom after drinking alcohol with her friends, authorities said.
Takeimi Rao, who had just graduated 8th grade, was found passed out on the floor of her bedroom at her home in Santa Rosa, Calif., around 9 a.m. on Sunday, cops said.
In what is probably the most disgusting, yet tragic story we'll report this year, a woman in Ireland died of an allergic reaction hours after having sex with a dog.
According to reports, a man has been charged with forcing his German Shepard to have sex with the woman, which broke Ireland's bestiality laws.
The death of a six-week-old baby in 2010 is being blamed on her mother's breast milk, which police say was tainted with morphine.
Now the mother, Stephanie Greene, is facing a charge of homicide by child abuse or neglect, in addition to more than three dozen drug-related charges, South Carolina authorities said.
The 37-year-old was arrested on Friday after… Continue
Ryan Dunn, one of the stars of MTV's "Jackass," was killed in a car accident. He was 34.
The daredevil, known to fans for his gross-out stunts alongside Johnny Knoxville, was in a Porsche that was traveling down Route 322 in West Goshen Township in Pennsylvania around 3 a.m. when it went over a guardrail, crashed into trees and burst into flames.