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The total number of suicides reached nearly 50,000 in 2022 — the highest number recorded in United States history, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data published this week. Even though the total number of men who committed suicide outpaced women 4 to 1 in 2022, the suicide rate for women increased twice as much as men from 2021 to 2022. The suicide rate of women increased 4 percent from 2021; for men, it increased by 2 percent.

All age groups for women 25 and older experienced an increase in suicides, with a significant increase for those between 25 and 34....

A flame-throwing Republican donor to both former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis died after bloodying his wife's arm with a round and when she sought help -- turned the gun on himself.

Steve Alembik, 72, was pronounced dead inside of a car after shooting himself in the parking lot of a BurgerFi eatery in Delray Beach, Florida, back on Oct. 10, according to BocaNewsNow.

His wounded wife ran into BurgerFi leaking blood. ...

NEW YORK — Three recent high-profile cases in which young children in New York City were killed or brutally beaten has raised an alarming question: What could prompt anyone to attack the young and innocent? In all three, children were attacked or killed at the hands of those close to them. The circumstances were different, but experts point to reasons that may offer some insight into the cruelty and depravity that New Yorkers have seen over the last 10 days. On Monday, an Upper West Side father fatally stabbed his wife and two young children, ages 1 and 3, before slitting his own throat. On Su......

NEW YORK — An Upper West Side man brutally killed his wife, their infant son and toddler daughter before taking his own life Monday, according to police sources. Cops found the bodies of the 41-year-old suspect, his 40-year-old wife, their 1-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter in an apartment on West 86th Street near Riverside Drive around 2:56 p.m. The adult victims had their throats slit and the children suffered stab wounds to their bodies, according to police. Paramedics pronounced all victims dead at the scene, cops said. Their names were not immediately released. But a neighbor said the......

NEW YORK — A Bronx man killed his roommate around midday Tuesday and then committed “accidental suicide” when he fled down this apartment building stairwell, tripped and shot himself, police sources and relatives said. A dispute between the two men boiled over at 12:30 p.m. in the three-bedroom apartment they shared on Rev. James A. Polite Ave. near East 163rd Street in Longwood, according to police. A 28-year-old man fatally shot his roommate, 32, in the head and grazed another man, 56, in the cheek on the fifth floor of the apartment building. The gunman fled the scene, taking the stairs fas......

An off-duty Chicago police officer died over the weekend in an apparent suicide, the latest in a grim tally of officers. The 47-year-old officer was found unresponsive in a parked vehicle Saturday evening near his home in the Ashburn neighborhood on the city’s Southwest Side. He was later pronounced dead at 7:32 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Autopsy results were pending a police investigation, the medical examiner said Sunday. Chicago police confirmed the officer’s death in a brief statement on Sunday. “The Chicago Police Department experienced the heartbreaking......