We’re pretty close to our family. We share a lot with them, try to visit them as often as we can and plan to keep their rotting corpses in our home upon their respective deaths. Because that, friends, is...

Community leaders and residents of Patchogue, New York gathered together this morning to speak out against the recent stabbing death of 38-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant Marcello Lucero, who came to the United States 16 years ago. [Ed. note: Query -...

Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño, 37, the second-highest ranking official in Mexico’s government, was killed last night in a plane crash. The plane plummeted into rush-hour traffic in DF, causing the aircraft to explode. He was among seven other...

Eighty-six year old Peruvian singer Yma Sumac has died of colon cancer in an assisted-living facility in Silver Lake, California. Sumac, who had a multi-octave singing range, was known as the “Nightingale of the Andes” and the “Peruvian Songbird.”...

Jose Luis Garza has died of heart failure at the age of 47. Massively obese, Garza had appealed to the public — and to fellow Mexican Manuel Uribe — to help him in his battle to lose weight and...

Lt. Michael Pigott, the police officer who delivered the order to Tase emotionally disturbed Bed-Stuy resident Iman Morales — a decision that resulted in Morales falling ten feet to his death — has committed suicide on his 46th birthday:...

House Peters Jr, the man who played the original “Mr. Clean,” has died at the ripe old age of 92. He died of pneumonia at the awesomely named Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital: The elder Peters’ most memorable...

Activist Dionicio Morales has died at the age of 89. Morales went from picking apricots and walnuts to creating the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation in 1963, the nation’s largest provider of human services targeted towards Latinos. A little about...

A dog in rural Russellville, Alabama brought home a severed child’s foot, much to the unquestionable delight of his owners, we’re sure. WINK, NUDGE. Officials are investigating the foot, as no children have recently been reported missing in the...

Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright has died of cancer at the age of 65 in his home in England. Did you know he and bandmates Roger Waters and Nick Mason went to architecture school? We guess you do now:...

68-year-old Don LaFontaine, called the “King of Voiceovers” died today at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from complications following a collapsed lung. He is survived by his wife and three children. LaFontaine is famous for his many, many...

While many young men dream of cars and ladies or Michael Phelps standing over their beds wearing nothing but his gold medals, twenty-four-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina of Puerto Rico had a different dream: To stand upright at his wake...

Jack Weil, the man credited with popularizing the “Western shirt” — favored today by rockabillies, old Mexican men and lesbians — has died at the age of 107. Weil died at home in Denver,Colorado - the city in which...

Comedian and actor Bernie Mac has passed away from pneumonia. This comes as a surprise to many, especially since his rep had formerly issued a statement that his condition was stable and he would soon be released. Here’s a...

Soap star Angelique Boyer may or may not be dead, depending on whether or not you believe two different websites who have reported two different causes of death: One site claims that the Mexican soap actress, 20, died yesterday...

Estelle Getty has passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 84, just three days shy of what would have been her 85th birthday. Says her caregiver, Paul Chapdelaine: “Sadly, today July 22, 2008 at 5:35 a.m. Pacific...

Baltimore’s only — or only famous — female DJ, Khia Edgerton aka the “Club Queen K-Swift” is dead at either age 27, 28 or 29, depending on conflicting reports as to her date of birth. The Baltimore native passed...

Dorian Leigh, a woman many hail as the world’s first supermodel, has died at age 91 in McLean, Virginia. Her modeling career spanned the 40s, 50s and 60s and she is said to have been the inspiration for the...

Texas-born actress and dancer Cyd Charisse died yesterday of an apparent heart attack at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The iconic 86-year-old had a long career of dancing and acting in numerous MGM films - like this one,...

It’s pretty much a given that every fucking household appliance and accessory is out to kill you. We’ve seen the way the boiler seems to eye us right before it decides it’d be really funny to suddenly stop working...

Cuban-American actor, director and producer Mel Ferrer died this past Monday at his home in California. A native of New Jersey, Ferrer attended Princeton University until he dropped out sophomore year to pursue a career in film. He acted...

Iconic fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent passed away in Paris today after battling what is simply being described as a “long illness.” The 71-year-old first entered the world of design at the tender age of 22 and was as...

A new exhibit by photographer Walter Schels being shown in London has got people all in a tizzy and bloggers writing things like “all in a tizzy” because it deals with death. The exhibit features photographs terminally ill patients...

Because fictionally creative baby blood is already kind of over, German artist Gregor Schneider is focused instead on making a terminally ill person the object of your gaze. Death is kind of “his thing,” actually. He’s currently looking for...

Following the death of her father, Emilio, from complications of pneumonia, Cameron Diaz has thought it best to seek professional help as she mourns. Said her What Happens in Vegas co-star, professional frat boy Ashton Kutcher: “Sadly she will...

Cameron Diaz’s 58-year-old father, Emilio, has died of pneumonia. Sad: Mr Diaz was a second generation Cuban-American who worked an oil company. His daughter got the news while working on her new movie ‘My Sister’s Keeper’. Production on the...

The body of Katoucha Niane, a 47-year-old former model, activist and author, was found in the Seine. Katoucha, as she was known professionally, had been missing for several weeks: She had been missing since January and was last seen...

Sr. Corporal Victor Lozada-Tirado was killed after losing control of his motorcycle. Lozado-Tirado was escorting Hillary Clinton’s motorcade to a campaign rally in Dallas, Texas: Sr. Corporal Victor Lozada-Tirado was reportedly leading Clinton’s procession when he lost control of...

Eva Longoria plays a dead ex-girlfriend in her latest movie, Title We Can’t Even Be Bothered To Look Up, which seems about the right fit for her acting range. Anyway, turns out she’s annoying and possessive, even in death:...

Spaniard Tomas Delgado is suing the family of seventeen-year-old Enaitz Iriondo, a cyclist he was involved in a fatal accident with, for damages to his Audi A8: Businessman Tomas Delgado says 17-year-old Enaitz Iriondo caused 14,000 Euros (£10,384) of...

We shit you not. A man in Panama has died as a result of an exploding toilet. In a prime example of Darwinism, 76 year-old Jose Luis Girón sprinkled gasoline inside his toilet in the hopes of starting a...

Australian actor, Heath Ledger, 28, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment at 421 Broome Street in Soho. At 3:31 p.m., a masseuse arrived at Apartment 5A in the building for an appointment with Mr. Ledger, the police said....

Twenty-year-old Mexican singer Jorge Antonio Sepulveda has been found shot in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. His murder appears to be connected to the recent rash of folk singers slain by organized crime mobs: Sepulveda, who was not well-known...

If this post could be an emoticon, it would be a super special one you’d have to pay to download of a tiny puppy shedding a big tear. And also it has angel wings. Mexican singing stoner Paulina Rubio’s...

Actor Andy Garcia, uncle of Jackie Garcia, the girlfriend of murdered Washington Redskins player Sean Taylor, has a few words to share about the football star, whom he regarded as a member of the family: “His heroic action on...