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ANTIDEPRESSANT: 14 Year Old Girl Kills 3 Year Old: Canada

Ann Blake-Tracy08 mins

The three-year-old boy signed the word across the dinner table to the daughter of
his Welland foster mom.

He did it to show he understood the young
woman’s message to him ­ also said with sign language to quiet the talkative
tot ­ that the 14-year-old girl joining them at the table, who arrived that
mid-December day in 2005 to stay with them, was a friend.

The next
morning, foster mom Margaret Hamilton found the gregarious boy lying on his
bedroom floor, cold and grey.

He had been smothered by his friend

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CELEXA, PAIN KILLERS, ATIVAN: Financier Danny Pang Commits Suicide: CA

Ann Blake-Tracy03 mins

The death of 42-year-old Newport
Beach financier Danny Pang has officially been ruled a suicide caused by the
combined effect of seven drugs, the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner’s Department
has determined.

Pang was found unconscious Sept. 11, 2009, in his
Newport Beach home and was taken to Hoag Hospital, where he died the next day.

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ANTIDEPRESSANT WITHDRAWAL: 27 Year Old Attempts to Commit “Suicide-By-Co…

Ann Blake-Tracy08 mins

The sister of the man wounded by police Wednesday night in
downtown Hastings said she believes he was trying to commit “suicide by cop.

“I’m going all the way out. Once they pull me over or anything I’m
shooting them until I run out of bullets,” Roman Tokarev wrote in a note his
sister Olesya Good’s husband found Wednesday before she alerted police.

Hours later, officers shot Tokarev, 27, after he allegedly pointed a gun
at them and tried to ram their squad cars during a chase

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Brittany Murphy Cause of Death? Serotonin Syndrome?

Ann Blake-Tracy015 mins

Simon Monjack, left, husband of deceased actress Brittany
Murphy and Murphy’s mother Sharon pose with a portrait of the actress in Los
Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Monjack said the portrait by photographer Bruce
Weber was Murphy’s favorite photo of herself. (AP Photo/Chris
Pizzello)

A month after Brittany Murphy’s mysterious death, her mother and husband say
they are convinced the actress died of natural causes, not drugs or an eating
disorder.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Sharon Murphy and Simon
Monjack said that Murphy did not use drugs or alcohol and that they are awaiting
a determination from coroner’s officials that will end speculation prescription
medicine caused Murphy’s death on Dec. 20 at age 32.

Monjack said some of the prescription medications found in the couple’s
Hollywood Hills home belonged to him.

Murphy had mitral valve prolapse, a common condition where a heart valve does
not properly close, but doctors said the actress “would live a long and healthy
life,” Monjack said.

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