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Bases brace for surge in stress-related disorders
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - Some 15,000 soldiers are heading home to this sprawling base after spending more than a year at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military health officials are bracing for a surge in brain injuries and psychological problems among those troops.
Nations:Afghanistan Activities:Gulf War Coalition Forces Source:(AP)
2008-11-29
Jury convicts mom of lesser charges in online hoax
LOS ANGELES - A Missouri mother on trial in a landmark cyberbullying case was convicted Wednesday of three minor offenses instead of the main conspiracy charge in a cruel Internet hoax that apparently drove a 13-year-old girl to suicide.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-11-26
Kin outraged, distraught over teen's cyber suicide
MIAMI - The family of a college student who killed himself live on the Internet say they're horrified his life ended before a virtual audience, and infuriated that viewers of the live webcam or operators of the Web site that hosted it didn't act sooner to save him.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-11-22
Wei Ren, mathematics Ph.D. student, dead at 26
Wei Ren, a calculus instructor and fifth-year graduate student in the mathematics department, was found outside Rockfeller Chapel Sunday morning. Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.
Nations:U.S.
2008-11-19
Middle-aged women drive rise in U.S. suicides: study
WASHINGTON - U.S. suicide rates appear to be on the rise, driven mostly by middle-aged white women, researchers reported on Tuesday. They found a disturbing increase in suicides between 1999 and 2005 and said the pattern had changed in an unmistakable way -- although the reasons behind the change are not clear.
Nations:U.S.
2008-10-21
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