A 16-year-old boy has died after striking a freeway overpass in California while standing up on a double-decker Starline Bus.

Rocky Mountain National Park's public information officer Kyle Patterson reports that lightning strikes at the park have killed two people in two days, injuring several more.

Henrietta Regina Dickson, a 55-year-old homeless woman, was killed in St. Petersburg, Fla. this week when a driver unwittingly parked her car on top of her unconscious body, pinning her underneath.

Last year, a California sheriff's deputy shot 13-year-old Andy Lopez seven times, killing him, because he believed the pellet gun in the boy's hands was an assault rifle. Yesterday, the Sonoma County district attorney ruled the killer would face no charges.

Though famine still takes its toll on the unfortunates across the sea, the greatest nation in the world has transcended such concerns. Here, our Statue of Liberty's upraised torch beckons with the message: In America, our appetizers are endless.

From Bloomberg today: "About 600,000 Chinese a year die from working too hard, according to the China Youth Daily. China Radio International in April reported a toll of 1,600 every day." What?? Chinese readers, please weigh in below on the veracity of this, if you are still alive.

Amanda Ezra, a mother of three from Mishawaka, Ind., died yesterday after hitting her head on an unidentified object while vomiting out the front window of a moving minivan. She was 24.

Everyone knows heartbroken men are prone to irrational behavior. One scorned lover might show up outside his old flame's house, waking her with the very loud Peter Gabriel song that's emanating from his boombox; another might find his ex's new guy, stab him in the chest, and eat his heart with a knife and fork.

The family of India's wealthiest guru, with an estate reportedly valued at $167 million, believes he died of a heart attack in late January. But his followers have spirited him away to a temple freezer and refuse to turn his body over because, they say, "he has been in deep meditation."

Entitled members of the "millennial" generation—is there anything that they cannot destroy with their devil-may-care sense of youthful self-regard? The answer is "no." Millennials are now destroying even death.

Chance Werner, an eighteen-year-old from Cartersville, Georgia died on Saturday after he was tied to a shopping cart and pushed into a Lake Allatoona only hours after graduating from high school. The death was a result of a botched game he was playing with friends.

Following last month's botched lethal injection in Oklahoma, a lawmaker in Utah says he wants to bring back death by firing squad — "the most humane way to kill somebody," he believes — as an option for those sentenced to death in his state.

The trend of Wall Street banks coddling their disgustingly weak employees continues: Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman said that the death of one young banker last year after round-the-clock work "has caused everyone to step back and say, 'Hey, have we got this right?'"

An earthquake in northern Thailand yesterday killed one person and injured several. The magnitude 6.3 quake split a road in half, and resulted in smashed windows, cracked walls, and a number of damaged Buddhist temples.

Say what you will about Los Angeles—that it's a hellpit of plastic-enhanced heathens teetering on the brink of seismic annihilation, for example—but give the city this: it has America's worst air.

A woman who struck three teens on bikes while driving her SUV, killing one and injuring the others, is now suing the deceased teen, his family, and the other two boys. She is claiming $1.35 million in damages for her psychological suffering.

Last January, Kentucky State Penitentiary inmate James Embry died, following "weeks of erratic behavior" and a hunger strike. A new AP investigation shows that lax and incompetent prison officials stood by and let it happen.

A 49-year-old New York man fell to his death after his parachute failed to open while he was skydiving. He landed in a backyard in Washington Township, N.J. around 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, right as the family next door was in the middle of an Easter egg hunt.

On January 24, 2009, my college classmate Julian was killed in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan. He was twenty-five years old, and his was the first combat death in Afghanistan during the Obama presidency. His death was also the first I learned of from a Facebook wall.

A 13-year study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology has revealed that if you take naps during the day, your life is going to be short. Add it to the list.