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Reports "Denver University's Health and Counseling Center has been offering training sessions that highlight the warning signs a person contemplating suicide will show, as well as what can be done to prevent suicide." - [Read more]

Reports that "in 2003, about 31,500 Americans committed suicide, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Roughly 17 percent of that number, or 5,300, were seniors, which means nearly 15 older Americans kill themselves each day." - [Read more]

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. - [Read more]

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

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

Reports "The International Association of Chiefs of Police is circulating a proposal, to make suicide-prevention tools available to all of the nation's nearly 18,000 state and local police agencies." - [Read more]

Reports "The National P.O.L.I.C.E Suicide Foundation says at least twice as many officers and emergency workers die from suicide every year than die on the job." Read for details. - [Read more]

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." - [Read more]

Details the official launch of Suicide Prevention Help and the development of a Web directory of easy-to-find suicide prevention resources. - [Read more]

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 - [Read more]

Reports that "some 20 million to 60 million try to kill themselves each year, but only about a million of them succeed." - [Read more]

Reports that "in a 3-year study of 188 high school students, researchers found that those with poor reading abilities were nearly four times more likely than average readers to think about or attempt suicide." - [Read more]

Read about the first Rochester, New York, Out of the Darkness Community Walk to support suicide prevention and research efforts. - [Read more]

Reports "Rise Against has contributed its recent single "Ready To Fall" to a public service announcement for suicide prevention hotline 1-800-SUICIDE." Read for details. - [Read more]

Reports "ail administrators and deputies, shaken by four suicides inside the Jefferson County jail in 2005, took serious steps toward preventing more in 2006. Only one inmate took his own life at the jail in Golden last year." - [Read more]

John W. Whitehead discusses the growth in suicide rates from a spiritual perspective. - [Read more]

Reports "nearly 1,100 students kill themselves each academic year on U.S. college campuses." See why December is a hard month for students. - [Read more]

Reports "abusers often express suicidal thoughts before trying to kill current or former partners, a new study finds. And abuse victims, it adds, are themselves at increased risk for self-harm." - [Read more]

Melissa Allison writes about her experiences following her husband's suicide ten years previously. - [Read more]

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. - [Read more]

Reports "for its work in suicide prevention, Somerville Cares About Prevention (SCAP) was selected to receive a Leadership Award from the Massachusetts Coalition for Suicide Prevention for its Suicide and Mental Health Prevention Taskforce." - [Read more]

Starting next year, high school freshmen will take a unit on depression and suicide prevention called SOS, and fourth-graders will have a course on cybersafety in their health curriculum in response to increasing concern of the dangers of Internet use. - [Read more]

Reports "an East Jersey State Prison in mate serving a 34-year sentence for armed robbery and other crimes hanged himself in an apparent suicide, the fifth for 2006. - [Read more]

Find this September 11, 2006, news item by Charley Able of the Rocky Mountain News. - [Read more]

Star-Tribune reports that "Wyoming has the highest per capita suicide rate in the country, and members of the Natrona County Task Force for Suicide Prevention want to bring attention to this serious problem this month. - [Read more]

Read this news item by Samantha Yale of the Santa Maria Times. - [Read more]

St. Petersburg Times reports that a superintendent wanted a teacher fired for trying to kill herself at school, but others show sympathy. Read for details. - [Read more]

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. - [Read more]

Reports "suicide, the 11th-leading cause of death in the United States, is not as rare as many think, says a U.S. professor of psychology." - [Read more]

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