14+ hour, 29+ min ago (102+ words) ROCKVALE, Colo. (KRDO) - A large law enforcement investigation came to a small town in Southern Colorado. The Fremont County Sheriff's Office says they received a call reporting a shooting just before 10:00 p.m. on Friday, November 28. Deputies found one man, who was later pronounced dead at the scene, along Twin Pines Avenue, a few blocks south of the Rockvale Town Hall. According to the 2020 United States Census, 511 people live in Rockvale. Geographically, the town is southwest of Florence. No other information is being reported at this time. No arrest has been made in connection with the shooting....

14+ hour, 32+ min ago (509+ words) Salisbury's Rowan County Drug Epidemic: Rural North Carolina's Hidden Addiction Crisis Salisbury and surrounding Rowan County communities face a drug epidemic that's destroying families, killing residents, and overwhelming limited treatment resources. The North Carolina Beat reports on the addiction crisis affecting rural North Carolina that gets minimal attention from media and politicians focused on urban areas. Rowan County has been hit particularly hard by methamphetamine addiction. The drug destroys users' health, relationships, and futures. Children get neglected or abused by addicted parents. Crime increases as users steal to fund their habits. And treatment resources remain inadequate for the scope of the problem. Drive through rural Rowan County and you'll see the effects of meth addiction'properties in disrepair, people showing visible signs of drug use, and communities that have lost hope. Law enforcement arrests dealers and users, but new ones immediately…...

21+ hour, 38+ min ago (687+ words) A 13-year-old national-level skating player, studying in Class 8, attempted suicide by jumping from the third floor of his private school in Dongre Nagar on Friday after allegedly facing severe verbal intimidation from the school principal. The incident has triggered public outrage and renewed debate over rising student suicides linked to institutional pressure. The boy, critically injured in the fall, was rushed to a private hospital. Doctors said his condition is now stable. According to CCTV footage recovered by police, the student entered the principal's office on Friday morning after the administration learned that he had recorded and uploaded a classroom video on social media a violation of school policy. Inside the office, the boy is seen repeatedly pleading and apologising. Investigators have confirmed that he said "sorry" 52 times in just four minutes, appearing visibly terrified. The 13-year-old later claimed the…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago (657+ words) Special to The Gazette Routt and Moffat counties have been going through a difficult period. Over the past few years, residents have lost neighbors, coworkers and longtime community members to suicide, losses that hit hard in places where people often know one another by first name. The rising toll has pushed local organizations to work more closely together, sharing information and resources to support residents in crisis and families affected by suicide. For Tom Gangel, community outreach director of Health Solutions West, which provides mobile crisis response in both counties, the pattern has been deeply unsettling. Some deaths followed long periods of struggle, he said, but many seemed to occur during moments of acute stress or overwhelming loss. "It's not always a long, grinding depression," Gangel said. "Sometimes it's a moment when everything feels like it's stacking up " financial strain,…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago (593+ words) Mental health professionals and parents have expressed concerns over the rising stress levels and peer pressure among by young people with at least one school and one college student having died by suicide in the past week alone. On Thursday, a 17-year-old girl from Faridabad allegedly died by suicide after jumping from a building. Police said she had been preparing for the JEE (Mains) and was reportedly under stress due to the upcoming exam. In another case, a 20-year-old BCom student from Surat Nagar died by suicide on Tuesday after jumping in front of a train. According to his family, he was nervous and anxious during his last days. Earlier this month, Gurugram police also recorded the deaths of two school students in separate incidents on October 23 and October 31" a Class 10 student and a Class 12 student jumped off high-rise buildings…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago (153+ words) A 49-year-old woman died after being hit by a lorry on a major road. The heavy goods vehicle was travelling eastbound on the A66 through North Ormesby, Middlesbrough, at about 16:40 GMT on Thursday when it the struck the pedestrian. Cleveland Police said the woman died on the scene despite the efforts of the emergency services. The road was closed until about midnight and police have asked anyone who witnessed the crash to contact them. Maxine Thompson-Curl has been campaigning since her son Kristian died after an assault in 2011. Cleveland Police detectives say Daniel Dixon caused his victims "considerable trauma". A Cleveland Police officer wants mums to be made comfortable breastfeeding in public and at work. The 30-year-old is in custody after Eskdale Academy in Hartlepool went into lockdown on Monday. Police praise the courage of the victim, who died the following…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago (158+ words) ENGLEWOOD, Fla. " The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said a woman died in a single-vehicle crash in Englewood on Friday morning. FHP said a 51-year-old Englewood woman was driving a sedan north on Pine Street, approaching the intersection at Crestwood Road, at a high rate of speed at 4:15 a.m. on Nov. 28. The report said the woman failed to negotiate a curve on the roadway, and the car traveled off the roadway into a grass shoulder and parking lot entrance at 75 Pine Street. The car then collided with a light pole and a fire hydrant before overturning, per officials. FHP said the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Lawsuit alleges deputy driving 97 mph without lights and siren killed truck driver Deputy was speeding to call involving a fight among elementary school students on school bus when black box shows he was driving…...

2+ day, 7+ min ago (1118+ words) The ACT Legislative Assembly is holding an inquiry into male suicide rates. (ABC News: Toby Hunt) An inquiry is investigating the disproportionately high rates of suicide among men, with them making up more than 75 per cent of Australians' suicide deaths. Over 60 submissions were heard by the inquiry into factors contributing to those rates, including from community groups and men from multicultural backgrounds. According to crisis support service Lifeline, men only made up about 40 per cent of helpline service users " and even when men did seek help, evidence indicated that they experienced "high levels of disengagement". There is a cycle that Ravi Krishnamurthy has seen time and time again among the multicultural community around Canberra. It is ruining lives and tearing families apart and, Mr Krishnamurthy said, leaving people feeling "invisible". He remembers the moment he learnt one of his close…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago (987+ words) CARLISLE " A Carlisle father of five learned he will serve in state prison until at least 2034 for his role in a March 2024 drug overdose death here. Barry Monismith Jr., 35, was convicted at an October jury trial of selling fentanyl to a 44-year-old woman who wound up overdosing later that night. He will serve a minimum of eight years and four months. The case was especially excruciating for Cumberland County court personnel as Monismith, at the time of the fatal deal, was participating in Cumberland County's Overdose Intervention Court. In addition, Monismith's victim, Dana Lynn DeFour, had graduated in February 2024 from a separate mental health court program. The victim's father, David DeFour, gave a searing impact statement in court Tuesday, telling Peck the loss of his daughter "is more than I can stand some days. I pray for her every day....

2+ day, 7+ hour ago (381+ words) National Self-harm, suicide levels in young women worrying: report Published : Nov. 28, 2025 - 15:02:11 Preventing self-harm and suicides among young women is an urgent national priority, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Thursday. According to the agency's Injury Factbook, which analyzes in-depth data from ER patients with "injuries" at 23 hospitals, cases of intentional self-harm in young women were significantly high. "Injury" is defined as a health problem caused by external factors such as accidents, natural disasters, self-harm, suicide and violence. The analysis found that most injuries from self-harm or suicide attempts involved ingesting toxic substances. Among those aged 15 to 24 who suffered poisoning-related injuries, women accounted for 76.2 percent. A closer look at the reasons for self-harm and suicide showed that psychological factors were cited by 60.3 percent of women, compared with 45.1 percent of men. In a separate survey conducted last year by the…...