Depressing WTOP News

or
What is wrong with the world?

The headlines below were taken from the 41 WTOP news items (via RSS) from 12/18 - 12/19/2010.

• Deer rescuers without life jackets fined in Maryland
• 1 Dead, 2 Ill after CO leak in DC home
• 1 Dead, 3 Injured in Brunswick House Fire
• DC Man Dies When Clothes Catch Fire in Kitchen
• Anne Arundel police investigating two homicides
• Prosecutor arrested on drunken driving charges
• 3 Shot to Death in Baltimore
• VA Man Charged with Mother's Stabbing Death
• Man Slain in North Brentwood Home
• Woman Struck, Killed by Van in King Street Metro Parking Lot
• Man Killed by Hit and Run Driver (Hyattsville)
• Man Pulls Shotgun on Driver on I-270
• Brunswick Man Indicted in Death of 2-month-old Daughter
• Five Indicted in March Drive-by Shooting (90 charges related to a series of shootings that ended in the death of three teenagers on South Capitol Street)
• Frederick Police Manhunt Continues (bank robber)
• MD Man Sentenced in Slaying of Visitor from Alabama

Seriously. What's up with all that?