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Suicide Is Almost as Dangerous as War for U.S. Soldiers

Hamilton Nolan · 06/14/12 08:42AM

As if our nation's military men and women don't have enough to look forward to with low salaries, underfunded V.A. benefits, and our frequent launching of unnecessary wars in which they will die, they all have something else waiting for them when the fighting is done:

Henry Hill, Mobster Who Inspired Goodfellas, Dead at 69

Neetzan Zimmerman · 06/13/12 08:50AM

Legendary Lucchese crime family associate Henry Hill, who turned FBI informant later in life and became the subject of Martin Scorsese's acclaimed crime film Goodfellas, passed away yesterday of an undisclosed illness he had apparently been battling for some time.