A cause of death has been revealed for famed character actor Michael Madsen, who passed away on July 3 at the age of 67. His cardiologist said he died from heart failure, according to KNBC in Los Angeles. Heart disease and alcoholism were named as contributing factors.

Michael Madsen, who was found unresponsive in his Malibu home on July 3, died from heart failure, with heart disease and alcoholism as contributing factors, his rep said.

The death of U.S. Army veteran Lucrecia Macias Barajas, 46, whose body was discovered by her daughter in a downtown Los Angeles homeless encampment, was ruled accidental due to drug use.

A 17-year-old Georgia girl was charged in the February murders of her mother and stepfather in Carroll County.

A man's death in Aberdeen is being treated as suspicious. Police said the 24-year-old was discovered seriously injured at 00:35 in Tillydrone's Pennan Road. He was later pronounced dead in hospital. Detectives said they were following a positive line of inquiry.

The country music icon, who has written over 3,000 songs in her career, says she can't focus on creating music following Carl Dean's passing in March 2025.

John Miko, 62, was sentenced on Tuesday, July 8, to serve between 19 and 29 years in prison on a charge of second-degree murder, related to the July 2024 beating death of his 95-year-old mother, Clara Miko.

Under the Assad regime, Saydnaya prison became a mass-killing machine; ‘a symbol of shame for the whole world.’

People with “young” brains — brains aging more slowly than their actual age — are much less likely to die or develop Alzheimer’s disease than those with “old” brains suffering from accelerated aging, researchers reported July 9 in the journal Nature Medicine.