An Australian man who was being treated for alcoholism got bombed after guzzling a load of hand sanitizer, sparking calls from health officials to keep the surprisingly highly alcoholic gels on lockdown.
Doctors called attention to the hazard of loose bottles lying around hospitals in a letter published Sunday in the Medical Journal of Australia.
Two Long Island teens died Thursday after falling into a cesspool in a friend's backyard and being overcome by fumes, police said.
Both Eduardo Vanegas-Fuentes, 16, of Holtsville and Edgar Calderon-Castro, 19, of Farmingville died Thursday morning at Stony Brook University Medical Center, Suffolk County police said.
A 30-year-old model celebrating her birthday at an Atlanta hotel plunged to her death Saturday after she and a pal crashed through a 10th-floor window while "play wrestling," authorities said.
Lashawna Threatt's lifeless body was found on a sunroom roof about five stories below the W Midtown Hotel room.
Rescuers discovered her friend, who tumbled off that… Continue
All-time wrestling great Randy "Macho Man" Savage died in a Florida car wreck Friday after suffering a heart attack behind the wheel, according to TMZ.com.
The 58-year-old Savage, a one-time minor league baseball player who helped catapult Vince McMahon's WWF into a huge success during the mid-'80s, was killed in Tampa, said his brother, fellow ex-grappler Lanny… Continue
A young man plunged to his death from an apartment balcony in Australia while "planking," a sometimes-dangerous new craze in which people lie face down in strange places while someone takes their picture.
Authorities in Brisbane said Acton Beale, 20, and a pal had been planking in different spots on their way home from partying on Sunday night when Beale decided to lie across a balcony rail on the seventh… Continue
The family of a Sing Sing inmate who died after his coffee was spiked with a powerful hair remover will get a $725,000 payout from the state.
Car thief Rodney Williams, of Babylon, L.I., was 20 years old and just three weeks away from being sprung in 2003 when someone sprinkled Magic Shave powder into his drink.
The inmate, who did not see a doctor for… Continue
BEIJING – A Chinese man died after Internet gaming for three days straight, the Beijing Times reported Tuesday.
The unnamed man, in his thirties, had not slept, had hardly eaten and had barely moved from his computer when he collapsed and slipped into a coma Monday evening at an Internet cafe outside Beijing.
The man, who had reportedly spent more than… Continue
LOS ANGELES (AP)—Jack LaLanne was prodding Americans to get off their couches and into the gym decades before it was cool. And he was still pumping iron and pushing fruits and vegetables decades past most Americans’ retirement age.
The fitness fanatic ate well and exercised—and made it his mission to make sure everyone did the same—right up to the end at age 96,… Continue
An 11-year-old Michigan boy died on Sunday after his parents said he suffocated while playing a dangerous game called "pass out" that has become popular among teenagers.
Brandon Stine, of Westland, Mich., near Detroit, was found dead in his bedroom, and his parents said they suspect he was playing a game in which people intentionally deprive themselves of oxygen in… Continue
Caffeine lovers beware: it may help you wake up in the morning, but the stimulant can also kill you.
It proved fatal for 23-year-old Michael Bedford, a British man who died in April after ingesting "spoonfuls" of a caffeine powder equivalent to roughly 70 cans of Red Bull.
Bedford swallowed two spoonfuls of the substance at a party with friends, according to reports in the British media, even though the powder he bought came with a… Continue
Solomon Burke, the larger-than-life "King of Rock and Soul," whose songs blended soul, gospel, country and R&B, died early Sunday at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport at age 70.
Born to the sound of music in an upstairs room of a Philadelphia church, Burke was acknowledged as one of the greatest soul singers of the 1960s, but his popularity never matched that of contemporaries like James Brown or Marvin Gaye.
Celebrated actor Tony Curtis has died.
The 85-year-old "Some Like It Hot" star passed away on Wednesday, a rep for Jamie Lee Curtis, his daughter, told Entertainment Tonight on Thursday.
According to ABC News, Curtis died in his home in Las Vegas. TMZ has confirmed Tony Curtis has died of cardiac arrest.
Curtis, who scored an Oscar nomination for playing a recist convict on the run opposite Sidney Poitier in "The Defiant… Continue
A body discovered in the chimney of a California home turned out to be that of a respected doctor, according to authorities.
The badly decomposed corpse of Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, who had been missing for nearly a week, was found over the weekend and later identified, Bakersfield police Sgt. Mary DeGeare told The Californian.
Officials said the doctor was likely trying to enter the home, where a man she was believed to have been dating… Continue
A test of endurance proved fatal for one Russian man.
The finalist at the World Sauna Championships died on Sunday in Finland after suffering burns from exposure to the steam's extreme heat.
Vladimir Ladyzhensky was facing off against Timo Kaukonen when both men collapsed about six minutes into the final round of the annual competition.
The pair suffered severe burns, but Ladyzhensky later died. The exact cause is unknown… Continue
Al Goodman of “Ray, Goodman, and Brown” and “The Moments” died on yesterday of an undisclosed illness. For all you young bucks out there, “Ray, Goodman, and Brown” was a soul group of the 60’s, 70’s and early 80’s.
Part of one of the most underrated soul groups of the past half century, Goodman provided the bass on hits such as “Special Lady” and “Take It To the… Continue
KINGSVILLE, Texas - Police say a 1-year-old girl died after being left in a hot car in southern Texas for about 45 minutes. Kingsville Police Chief Ricardo Torres says the child's mother had just returned home from picking up her children when she mistakenly left the toddler in the family car Wednesday afternoon. Kingsville is about 140 miles southeast of San Antonio.
No charges have been filed, but the case has been turned over to… Continue
Law enforcement sources tells TMZ there are signs Simon Monjack may have died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
One well-placed source says, "There were a number of pill bottles on the nightstand in the bedroom, and some were empty."
There is, obviously, an eerie similarity to the death of Monjack's wife, Brittany Murphy, just five months ago. In her case an array of prescription drugs were found on the nightstand of… Continue