Emblem of the NICS. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is a U.S. system for determining if prospective firearms or explosives buyers' name and birth year match those of a person who is not eligible to buy.
Paul Gray, who founded heavy-metal band Slipknot, died of a drug overdose in an Iowa motel in 2010. His doctor, Dr Daniel Baldi, faces 9 counts of involuntary manslaughter stemming from the deaths of Gray and others he prescribed drugs to.
Jeffrey A. Sickel, 28 PORTLAND - Jeffrey (Jeff) Andrew Sickel, 28, was born on Sept. 29, 1987, to Timothy Sickel and Robin Black at Parkview Memorial Hospital in Brunswick. Jeff died on June 13, 2016, at Cen- tral Maine Medical Center, due to head...