The Onion once again hit the road to see what the American public thinks about a cultural issue, asking "Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax died this week. What do you think?"

Frickin' hilarious stuff... picked by tdiggity 6 months ago

The FBI is looking for the owners of these 137 pieces of fine art, found in the Manhattan apartment of a man who died in 2006. Maybe one of them is yours.

The full story is here. picked by meggysue 3 weeks ago

Jim Dooley, who succeeded George Halas as head coach of the Bears, died Tuesday, his daughter said. He was 77. Dooley coached the Bears from 1968-71. picked by punthe 8 months ago

An inquest is to be held on a man who died during a contest to see who could eat the most fairy cakes. picked by topofall 6 months ago

Albert Hofmann, a scientist who accidentally discovered and created the drug Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938, has died today at the age 102. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

A UPS driver loved his job so much that when he died this week, his body was transported from the funeral home to the cemetery in a UPS truck. picked by BernardBlack 1 month ago

Though most of the American dead were recovered in 1948, some 250 U.S. troops are still missing from the Iwo Jima campaign. Many were lost at sea, but many others died in caves or were buried by explosions, and their remains may still be found. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago

Astonishingly, the coroner conducted no autopsy.
The medical examiner says Morrison had "classic signs" of a heart attack.Only five or six people were there that night...and one is finally talking picked by Dangerman 1 year ago

Photo gallery of people who have died this past year.

EDIT: The gallery apparently is updated frequently. The latest picture of Jack Linkletter is 168. picked by tchengrox 9 months ago

Rep. Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, has died, his spokeswoman said Monday. picked by dollyllama 7 months ago

An extinct breed of lion from North Africa was held at the Tower of London in medieval times, a new study shows. A pair of 700-year-old skulls unearthed from the tower's moat in the 1930s belonged to Barbary lions, a subspecies that has since died out in the wild. picked by Mitzuzake 5 months ago

Got the plague? Onto the island. Vomiting? Onto the island. Fever? Island. Sniffles with a mild cough? You get the idea. You stayed there until you got well or died. Judging from the mass graves, not many got well. picked by Moe 1 year ago

A few hours after a judge ruled that a 14-year-old Jehovah's Witness sick with leukemia had the right to refuse a blood transfusion that might have helped him, the boy died, a newspaper reported. picked by dollyllama 9 months ago

A 15-year-old honors student died early Saturday after she and a friend fell through a rooftop skylight and onto a gymnasium floor more than 33 feet below at an elementary school in this Orange County community, police said. picked by dollyllama 7 months ago

Unlike the soldiers of some previous wars, who were only occasionally able to send letters back home to loved ones, many of those who died left behind an extraordinary electronic testimony describing in detail the labor, the fears and the banality of serving in Iraq. picked by TraumaMamma 5 months ago

Students were told classmates had died in car wrecks — they hadn't. picked by Beeeny 3 months ago

Bill Melendez, the animator who gave life to Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other "Peanuts" characters in scores of movies and TV specials, has died. He was 91. picked by muppet 2 days ago

Three hundred chickens died in panic early on Sunday when a drunken German teenager on a joyride crashed a van into their shed. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Barbara West Dainton, believed to be one of the last two survivors from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died in England at age 96. picked by DemureArt 10 months ago

Maila Nurmi, whose "Vampira" TV persona pioneered the spooky-yet-sexy Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner's officials said. She was 85. picked by dollyllama 8 months ago