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.
Paul Newman and Lung Cancer. Paul Newman died from lung cancer at the age of 83 in his home in Westport, Connecticut. Though the public didn't hear much at first, he, unlike many celebrities with lung cancer, was open about his diagnosis before his death.