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.
Billy Paul, a singer whose suave but impassioned vocal style made âMe and Mrs. Jones,â a slow ballad about a manâs love for a married woman, a No. 1 hit in 1972, died on Sunday at his home in Blackwood, N.J. He was 81. His manager, Beverly Gay, told The Associated Press that the cause was pancreatic cancer.