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A Boston College student charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly encouraging her boyfriend to take his life has been arraigned. Twenty-one-year-old Inyoung You, a South Korean national, appeared before a judge at Suffolk Superior Court Friday morning where a not guilty plea was entered on her behalf. Prosecutors say You sent Alexander Urtula, of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, more than...

Quick thinking by an East Hampton teen who was just trying to play video games may have saved a life.

A former Boston College student has been indicted in connection with the suicide of her boyfriend, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins announced on Monday. Inyoung You, 21, of South Korea, is charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of 22-year-old Alexander Urtula, who was also a student at Boston College.

A Tennessee teen who died by suicide last week was cyberbullied by classmates over his perceived sexuality prior to his death, according to the teen’s brother. Channing Smith, 16, a high school student in Coffee County, Tennessee, died by suicide between Sept. 22 and Sept. 23. Joshua Smith, Channing’s half-brother, said he discovered the cyberbullying after he was initially unable...

The Massachusetts Parole Board on Friday said it had denied an early-release request from Michelle Carter, the woman imprisoned for urging her suicidal boyfriend via text messages to take his own life. The board said in a statement that it had denied Carter’s request for release, adding that she “needs to further address her causative factors” that led to her...

A report of a suicidal man led to the discovery of 50 guns, eight inert grenades, pipe bomb materials, swords and more than two thousand rounds of ammunition inside a Philadelphia home Wednesday, according to police.

In another tragedy for the NYPD, a veteran police officer died by suicide in his Queens home Wednesday evening, police said — the seventh member of the force to do so in the last 10 weeks and the second in just two days.

Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims said they would have preferred their day in court over Saturday’s news that the millionaire financier and accused sex trafficker died by apparent suicide in his New York City jail cell, NBC News reports. Jennifer Araoz, who accused Epstein of raping her when she was 15 after she was recruited outside her New York City high...

A fifth NYPD officer has died by suicide in the last two months, escalating a recent crisis that has caused all levels of police leadership to speak out on the need for cops to look after their mental health and that of their colleagues.

Michelle Carter sent her suicidal boyfriend countless text messages encouraging him to follow through on his plan to take his own life until he actually did. Two years after Carter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in a case that gripped the nation, the director of a new documentary wants viewers to decide for themselves whether her actions were criminal.

Suicides among U.S. kids aged 10 to 17 jumped to a 19-year high in the month following the release of a popular TV series that depicted a girl ending her life, researchers said. The study published Monday can’t prove that the Netflix show “13 Reasons Why” was the cause, but there were 195 more youth suicides than would have been...

The wrongful death lawsuit brought against the Massachusetts woman convicted of sending her suicidal boyfriend a series of text messages urging him to kill himself has been resolved. Michelle Carter was convicted in 2017 of involuntary manslaughter in the 2014 death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III. The 22-year-old Plainville woman, 17 at the time of Roy’s death, began serving a...

The father of one of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre took his own life Monday morning at Edmond Town Hall, in Newtown, according to police.

A second survivor of the Parkland school shooting has died in what police are calling an apparent suicide, officials said Sunday.

A survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School died by suicide this past weekend.

Online child predator-shaming group POPSquad has recorded more than 130 stings and claims to have been involved in 14 arrests, which NBC News has verified, though not all were charged with crimes related to videos of the encounters. It’s one of dozens of such groups that have sprung up online, especially in the last year, mining similar territory to the...

A man blew up himself, his 2-year-old son and a friend in car explosion in Allentown, Pennsylvania, which authorities call a murder-suicide.

A rosy hue washed over a room at the New York Public Library as models wearing vibrant pinks, greens and blues followed a winding silver line of glitter on a pink carpet. The shimmering line was an homage to late designer Kate Spade at the New York Fashion Week show of her former brand.

A 9-year-old boy killed himself in Denver last week, soon after the start of school. His mother says he’d been bullied after coming out as gay, NBC News reported. Leia Pierce found the body of her fourth grader, Jamel Myles, on Thursday and unsuccessfully tried to revive him. He’d come out as gay this summer, she told the Denver Post,...

Following the tragic death of Anthony Bourdain, his signature show will carry on his legacy with one final season. Nearly two months since the 61-year-old star was found dead in his hotel room in France, where he was filming for an upcoming episode of “Parts Unknown,” it has been confirmed that Bourdain will posthumously return to the small screen for...