Kaz Bresnan

Two members of a Dartmouth College fraternity and a sorority have been charged in relation to the death of a student, who was found dead in a river over the summer after attending an off-campus party where alcohol was allegedly served to people who were under 21. Won Jang, 20, was a student at the...

picture me a missing person. i think i’d like to have my photo on milk cartons, to have your pity and never let it reach me. i want you to know there’s nothing you can do for me, really, and learn to live with that. pray for my family. because i think if i could be anything, i’d like to be an unanswered question and i’d like for the what-if’s to haunt you and it should hurt, but the ache should be dull and you should never stop wondering what you could have done and you should always come up empty. empty-handed. empty hearted. the gap will be filled, but you’ll still feel a chill wash over you every time you see black-dyed hair.

Carie Hallford, 47, and her husband Jon Hallford, 44, pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges and corpse abuse after leaving 190 decaying corpses in their funeral home.

you worry the paper straw around the plastic cup and think about landfills and futures without cardboard sleeves. you are worried about prion disease and deer and mad cow. you are worried about the rising temperature of the earth and fungus ever since you watched the last of us. you are worried about teflon and microplastics and carcinogens and whatever else you’re being quietly lied to about. your mother used to harmlessly call you “a worrier,” which always oddly stung. you never felt like a worrier, you feel like a person. and besides, you’ve been told thousands of times that this is normal. everyone gets nervous sometimes. public speaking and business proposals and picturing people naked and how whenever they get nervous, they just-get-over-it, but that never worked for you. at some point as a kid you started to hold your breath in tunnels and under bridges. swallowed by the fear that if you inhaled, the ceiling would cave in. years of engineering and architecture couldn’t hold a candle to the diminishing air in your tiny lungs. the problem was that it worked, no tunnel or bridge ever collapsed, and your family was never devoured by the ocean surrounding the car.

My family tree began in your right shoulder My family tree was built On a foundation of rot I am built from rot I am made from you, you are my creator

I cannot grow anything in. “God?” I mutter into the soil, “Are you there? Were you ever? How much longer?”

back to traffic lights And heels firmly planted And I wait on the edge and

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Former Kansas City police detective Roger Golubski, 71, was found dead on Monday, Dec. 2 following an apparent suicide. Golubski died the day his federal civil rights trial was set to begin for allegedly using his position in law enforcement to sexually abuse black women for decades.

Colorado dentist James Craig, 46, was previously arrested and charged with first-degree murder on March 18, 2023, following the death of his wife of 23 years, Angela Craig, 43. Craig is accused of fatally poisoning his wife’s protein shakes and has pleaded not guilty.