KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — A 63-year-old woman has been sentenced to prison for helping her sick husband commit suicide with an overdose of prescription pills in their Hudson Valley home. Solane Verraine has already been in jail for more than ...

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TAUNTON, Mass. — A woman who sent her boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself when they were both teenagers was convicted Friday of involuntary manslaughter in a trial that raised questions about whether words can ...

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Sitting in his pickup truck one summer day in 2014, Conrad Roy III wavered about his plan to kill himself. He was scared, he texted his girlfriend. “Get back in,” she replied. Roy did. The 18-year-old who had long battled ...

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The email arrived like a bolt of lightning: Dear Dan and Kelly: I have decided to end my life.  My body can be found in my office and my car in the family court parking lot.  Thank you for all ...

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An attorney retained to settle the estate of an Onondaga County man whose death was originally ruled a suicide was not representing his wife when she was investigated for his murder, an appeals court found Friday. In upholding the second-degree ...

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ITHACA (AP) — A federal jury will decide whether Cornell University and the City of Ithaca must pay millions of dollars to the family of an 18-year-old Cornell student who jumped to his death from a bridge over a gorge ...

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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate’s love life was convicted of invasion of privacy and anti-gay intimidation Friday in a case that exploded into the headlines ...

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AMHERST — A high school outside Buffalo has suspended some students after the suicide of a bullied gay teenager. Jamey Rodemeyer’s suicide at age 14 on Sept. 18 drew national attention, including laments from Lady Gaga over the loss of ...

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NEW YORK CITY — For two years, the two sons of jailed financier Bernard Madoff portrayed themselves as honest whistleblowers of their father's historic fraud. A court-appointed trustee depicted them as bungling money managers who did nothing to protect investors.

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Appellate Division, Third Department Workers’ Compensation Depression — Suicide Matter of Smith v. Cornell University 508834 Appealed from the Workers’ Compensation Board Background: This appeal is from a decision that the death of claimant’s decedent was causally related to his ...

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ROCHESTER — Authorities say an upstate New York businessman charged with bilking oil and natural gas investors in a Ponzi scheme that took in an estimated $35 million has committed suicide.

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BUFFALO — Erie County will take several steps to prevent inmate suicides at two facilities under a settlement agreement reached with the U.S. Justice Department.

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