A West Covina woman who was on the phone talking with 911 dispatchers about a possible burglary was shot and killed, apparently while the crime was in progress, Los Angeles County Sheriffs’ officials said.
The victim, whom authorities described as a “female Asian adult,” was pronounced dead at the scene.
“It was perfectly obvious that she was [...]

Canada—The floor of a church filled with about 1000 people, mostly teens, collapsed during a concert, injuring at least 40 people, one of them seriously.
The youths were at the Central Heights Church in Abbotsford, British Columbia, to hear the Christian rock band Starfield when a large area in front of the stage gave way.
One concertgoer [...]

A young man was shot dead early Saturday in Walnut Park after a wordless exchange of glances at a red light, L.A. County sheriffs deputies said.
The victim, Diego Rey Garcia, 20, of Los Angeles, was driving in a car with one passenger when the vehicle pulled up to a red light at Firestone Blvd. and [...]

A 31-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting as he stood holding a machete in front of a pay telephone in Montecito Heights, authorities said.
The man was acting strange shortly before the 4:40PM shooting, repeating in Spanish, “I’m looking for death” and pacing in front of a phone in the 3600 block of [...]

Authorities are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case of a 62-year-old man found dead in a street with an arrow in his chest.
Authorities say retired NASA employee Angel Martinez was on one of his frequent walks in Lancaster on March 11 when he was hit in the chest. [...]

A woman found dead and packed in dry ice at an upscale hotel near John Wayne Airport has been identified as Felicia Tripp of Huntington Beach. No further information was available on how she died or how long her body had been in the hotel room. Police found Tripp packed in dry ice in a [...]

A 27-year-old Orange County man climbed a 50-foot Italian Cyprus tree to rescue a cat, then fell to his death while reaching out to grab the stranded feline.
Sgt. Dan Adams says the man managed to grab hold of the cat, but lost his grip and fell to the sidewalk. The cat fell to the ground [...]

25-year-old Jehad Ramzi Razack has been arrested in connection with the beating death of his mother, a 58-year-old resident of Highland Park, authorities said.
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A 26-year-old man died after a vehicle-to-vehicle shooting on the Hollywood Freeway early Saturday morning, the LAPD said.
—Both reports from The Daily Breeze, 3/2/08

A 22-year-old man died Sunday after the homemade soapbox car he was racing down a street spun out of control and crashed into a sports utility vehicle, police said.
Michael Garcia sustained serious injuries and was pronounced dead at Tarzana Medical Center. He was one of 36 contestants racing in an event held by the San [...]

Rescuers continued to search Tuesday for James Jun Hee Goh, who was swept out to sea off the coast of Palos Verdes over the weekend. 23-year-old Goh was walking along the rocks on the beach shore Sunday when a wave hit him and two companions. Goh’s friends escaped, but he was pulled into the ocean.
—The Daily Breeze, [...]

ACCOKEEK, Md.— A car plowed into a crowd that had gathered to watch a drag race on a suburban road early Saturday, killing eight people and injuring at least five, police said.
Police said the white sedan was not involved in the street race but accidentally drove into the crowd of about 50 people that had [...]

Celebrities need to hear the Gospel too… here are a few who probably didn’t respond to God’s call, or never heard the Biblical Gospel at all… then again, maybe they did;we’ll know for sure when we make it to Heaven. The point is: Go everywhere and preach the good news to all creation!

John Ritter, the popular [...]

Davie, Fla.— Less than an hour after Kim Sjostrom and Teddy Efkarpides were wed, Sjostrom crumpled in her husband’s arms during a Greek song that means “Love Me.” At 36, Sjostrom died of a heart attack.
—From The Associated Press, in the Daily Breeze, 2/10/08

Darione Page, a 17-year-old black youth, was shot multiple times while waiting at a traffic light at the intersection in South-Central L.A.  on Jan. 28. According to detectives with LAPD’s South Bureau, a black male suspect approached Page from the passenger side of his vehicle and fired several shots. Page tried to drive away but [...]

The bodies of a family reported missing in Kentucky were found in a car submerged in a creek, authorities said in Sparta. Foul play was not suspected. —L.A. Times 1/19/08

A reminder for the uninitiated: Every Monday I post an article about people dying suddenly and tragically to remind us that tomorrow is promised to no man. “Just as man is destined to die once and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people…” (Hebrews [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two New York men wheeled the corpse of their friend around the sidewalks of midtown Manhattan in an office chair in a failed attempt to cash his $355 Social Security check, police said.
Virgilio Cintron, 66, had died of natural causes when two of his friends, both aged 65, brought him to [...]

A 33-year-old Korean man was found dead on November 28, apparently killed by a cell phone battery explosion. The cell phone was made by LG Electronics.The man, identified only by his family name, Sur, was found dead by his co-workers at a quarry in North Chungcheong Province where he was employed as a shovel operator.
According [...]

I gave the officers sitting behind the info desk at The Galleria Mall some Gospel tracts; they gave me some tracts of their own containing interesting information that will keep you from being buried 6 feet under during the holidays:

DID YOU KNOW IN CALIFORNIA:
In total, over 3,906 family members, friends & co-workers are killed and [...]

If only poor ole Santa paid attention when he had the chance last year!

To give a horrible performance in the theater is to die on stage; to actually die on stage is whole ‘nother matter entirely:
Moliere: The 17th century French playwright and actor collapsed during the performance of one of his plays. He had a coughing fit, was carried home, and promptly died. The name of the [...]

BY RAY COMFORT
Charles Spurgeon said that people can be taught to live by being reminded that they have to die. That’s true. Every sane human being has a will to live, and it’s an often-forgotten tool by which we may reason with them. So, here’s some feathers for your evangelistic arrows:
Every year around 90,000 [...]

A wildlife biologist at Grand Canyon National Park most likely died from plague contracted while performing a necropsy on a mountain lion that later tested positive for the disease.
Eric York, 37, who worked in the park’s cougar-collaring program, became ill on Oct. 30 and called in sick for a couple of days before being [...]

A man was killed in Tustin by falling into a wood-chipper.
 The tree service worker, identified as a Gabriel Gonzales-Ferrer, “was standing at the back end of the chipper, throwing branches into it with his co-workers nearby, said Sgt. Pat Welch of the Tustin Police Dept. “One of them looked over, and he was gone. He [...]

For homeschool, my daughters read this classic poem from an unknown author, which is actually a riddle. I asked my 8-year-old a very important question afterward. Read the poem to see if your answer is the same as her’s.
SOLOMON GRUNDY
Solomon Grundy,
Born on Monday,
Christened on Tuesday,
Married on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday,
Worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried [...]

Top distance runner Ryan Shay died during the U.S. men’s Olympic marathon trials Saturday after collapsing about 5 1/2 miles into the race.
He was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital and pronounced dead at 8:46 a.m.. He was 28.
Read the story from AP here.

The L. A. Times reported on Friday that a couple in Escondido narrowly escaped with their lives when a fire engulfed their home. How they escaped their doom was amazing.
“With no time to escape, Roger and his wife, Dena, did the only thing they could think of to survive: They jumped into their swimming pool, [...]

At least four people were killed in a blinding sandstorm that created a huge pile-up of cars on a freeway just north of L.A. Dozens of others were injured.
“All my family was in this van, all 11,” said Fernando Amaral Pontes, standing near the wreckage of his vehicle on the desert highway.

I’m continually amazed at the ridiculous things people do that will ultimately cause death, suddenly. This is why there is an urgency in preaching the Gospel…
According to Join Together, an alcohol abuse treatment website, a Texas man died after receiving an enema full of sherry wine, and his wife was recently cleared of charges of [...]

Death strikes when we least expect it. There is an urgency to the Gospel message…
A 32-year-old woman from the L.A. area died in a fall off a cliff at Yellowstone National Park, park officials said. The fall happened Friday evening in the Calcite Springs area, just north of Tower Falls. Her body was recovered in [...]