Suicide

***A personal story*** As is my custom while preparing my Montana Morning news program, I was listening to the police scanner early in the morning last week, when I heard the 9-1-1 operator issue a call saying a person was threatening to take their own life...

The pressure of aging with the addition of health problems of middle-aged men in the Rocky Mountain region is leading to an alarmingly increased rate of suicide.

Law enforcement officers say a southwestern Montana man told an acquaintance that he shot his family at their one-room cabin because his wife had been "mocking him and riding him all day."

Missoula police have ruled that the death of a county jail inmate who jumped from the second tier and landed on the concrete floor was a suicide.

When celebrities end it all we often ask the question, “He or she had everything — why did they do it?” What exactly is everything?

After autopsies performed in Missoula, The Montana Department of Criminal Investigations has concluded that the two dead bodies found in a rural home in Superior were the result of a murder-suicide.

One Montana fugitive committed suicide, while another was purposely hit by a patrol car when a Butte robbery came to its tragic conclusion in Lincoln county, Oregon. Now, Oregon officials are investigating exactly what happened to fugitive Dale Edward Wallace.

The annual Kids Count survey, conducted by the University of Montana Business and Economic research, shows that Montana ranks number 28 nationally in child and family well-being.

A suicide note that led to a Singaporean court's decision that American Shane Todd had not been murdered has recently been determined to most likely be a fraud.

It's been over a year since the death of an American engineer in Singapore became a hotbed of controversy over the justice of the Singaporean court system.