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Anne Heche had a trace amount of cocaine — but no alcohol — in her system when she piloted her blue Mini Cooper into a Los Angeles house last August, sparking the fire that would ultimately kill her, coroner officials confirmed Tuesday.…

An Indiana coroner's office is asking relatives of young men who vanished between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s to submit DNA samples in a renewed effort to identify human remains found on land once owned by a man suspected in a…

Four University of Idaho students who were found dead in a rental house last Sunday were stabbed to death in their beds and likely were asleep when the attacks occurred, the Latah County coroner told a cable news channel on…

More than four days since the gruesome murders of four University of Idaho students at a home near campus, the city of Moscow remains in shock, as little information has been released. No arrests have been made yet. The Latah County…

Health officials in northern Quebec say they are trying to hire more nurses and Inuit staff after a coroner’s report released last month linked the deaths of 10 infants in the region to overcrowding. A recruitment drive is underway to…

Dr. Odey C. Ukpo has been sworn in as the interim Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner of Los Angeles County, the first Black person to serve in that capacity since the office was established in 1850, authorities said. Ukpo, 42, who was appointed…

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office has listed Leslie Jordan’s cause of death as “deferred” pending further investigation after the actor crashed his car and died Monday in Hollywood.After conducting an autopsy Tuesday, the medical…

The family of an 86-year-old woman who was found dead on the floor of a Montreal-area emergency room last year is calling for a new investigation into the circumstances of her death following the release of a coroner’s report.…

Molly Russell is shown in this photo shared by the Molly Rose Foundation. The Molly Rose Foundation London — A coroner in London…