SANTA CRUZ (AP) — Authorities in a Northern California city say an 83-year-old woman has died after being hit by a teenager on a skateboard. Click to read the rest.

Why in the world do I post these grisly stories every Monday? Do I have a strange obsession with death? Am I a distant cousin of Edgar Allan Poe? Was I raised in a graveyard during my childhood years? Am I a frustrated mortician? Click here for my reasons for Sudden Death Mondays.