Two days after Michael D. Krezinski was arrested, he was dead. The 25-year-old had hanged himself in his cell at the Racine County Jail, the first suicide at the facility in 6 ½ years.

Item reports that the body of Paul McCarthy, a 24-year State Police veteran assigned to the South Boston barracks, was found at the Massachusetts Highway Construction Depot at Route 128 in Canton.

Reports "the largest study yet on suicide risk among veterans suggests that younger returning soldiers may be at greatest risk of taking their own lives and that more resources may be needed to curtail suicide in this age group."

A 20-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol was found dead in a South San Francisco field on Wednesday morning, the victim of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Lt. Mike Brosnan with the South San Francisco Police Department.

Murfreesboro, TN, newspaper reports on the death of two teenagers in Cannon County and the need for need frank and open discussions in homes and schools, with literature, education and support for children in trouble.

Reveals Stephanie Casciotta is the first-place winner in the recent logo contest sponsored by the Monroe County Suicide Prevention Task Force.

Browse to read this news item from Canada's The London Free Press.

ArmyTimes.com reports that a former Army officer who lost her soldier-husband to suicide will be speaking in Washington, D.C.

Ida Brown, senior staff writer, notes "in the last two decades, suicide rates have doubled among young people aged 10-14. And, between 1980-1996, the suicide rate for African-American males aged 15-19 has also doubled." Read for details.

Reveals "the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released alarming statistics that show the suicide rate for American children and teenagers was up between 2003 to 2004."

Reports that "the problem of suicide needs to garner more media attention to stop the 'out-of-sight and out-of-mind epidemic' that is decimating many aboriginal communities, particularly northern ones, Ontario's lieutenant-governor has warned."

Reports "Dr. George Leverage, psychiatrist in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) medical unit, has suggested that suicide prevention should be included in the curriculum taught at the police training school."

Article details "the suicide rate for young people increased for the first time in nearly 15 years. What's going on? And what do worried parents need to watch out for?"

Reports "in just one year, Hazelton has seen more than 150 suicide attempts -- approximately three every week among members of the Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en First Nations. Many have been successful."

Details the suicide of a man in Cape Coral, Florida.

Reports that each year, thirty thousand people commit suicide. For one Acadiana woman, enough is enough. She's planning a suicide prevention week for the state of Louisiana. Browse for details.

CNW Group item reveals that "new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) offers important evidence on the link between alcohol and suicide."

Reports "a study published in the American Journal of Public Health reports a decline in suicide rates from 1970 to 2002." Read for details.

Reports that "an Iqaluit researcher is looking to the circumpolar world for answers to the high rate of suicide among Nunavut's Inuit."

Reports that "the attempted suicide rate of blacks living in the United States is higher than expected at 4 percent, according to a new study." Read for details.

Reports "Two inmates in the the state prison system committed suicide during a two-hour period ending just after midnight."

Reports "suicide is the third leading cause of death among teens, but doctors are far from figuring out how to spot and treat teens who might try to take their own lives." Read for details.

Reports "at least 34 people committed suicide by jumping off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge last year, the Marin County Coroner's office have said." Read for details.

Reports " a new robust Suicide Prevention Help Web resource is being launched by Montreal-based Interdisciplinary artist Kenneth Hemmerick so that people can have easy access to suicide prevention information, and know that people care."

Reports "Child and teen suicide rates rose for the first time in more than a decade in 2004 - and many psychological experts said the stronger warning labels that led to a drop in the number of prescriptions for antidepressant drugs may be to blame."

Discloses "according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the last decade the suicide rate among preteen and young teenage American girls rose 76 percent, the highest says the CDC in a decade."

Read an article about a film by Christina Terrell who knows intimately the loneliness that gay and lesbian youths feel when they are rejected by others.

As a Douglas County deputy sheriff, Bret Hicks, 37, of Ruhenstroth, has seen his share of suicides. But his feelings deepened four years ago when the subject came closer to home when Tim Livingston, a cousin of Bret's wife, Stephanie, 34, committed suicid

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) brings its national Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk to San Francisco for the first time on July 22 and 23. The 18-mile fundraising walk benefits AFSP.

Learn about this Stroudsburg, PA, event that was held as a part of World Suicide Prevention Day in 2006.