Police in Mississippi say a tea party official arrested after photos were taken of U.S. Sen Thad Cochran's ill wife has been found dead. They are treating the case as a suicide.
A 42-year-old man apparently shot himself when a Meagher County deputy stopped his vehicle after he failed a chemical screening test required as a condition of his bond in a felony DUI case.
The Montana Attorney General's office is urging the state Supreme Court to stand by a ruling that would send a former teacher back to prison for raping his 14-year-old student.
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.
Senator John Walsh joined with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Thursday to introduce landmark legislation to combat suicides among veterans.
For the past forty years, Montana has consistently placed as one of the five states with the highest suicide rate in the country. Though the final numbers won't be available till June, preliminary reports show that 2013 actually saw an increase in the number of suicides.
The state's recently-appointed Suicide Review Team has pledged to review every suicide that occurs in Montana in 2014 to try to determine the reason and recommend ways to reduce the state's suicide rate, which is nearly twice the national average.
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.
Montana currently has the third highest suicide rate of any state in the nation. The trend is nothing new, but the statistics are an important reminder during National Suicide Prevention Week. For the past fifty years, Montana has consistently ranked as one of top five highest suicide rate states.