100 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 21 1917 A whole family at Kamiyomura, Kugagori, Yamaguchi Prefecture, suddenly went frantic last Friday night, reports the "Jiji." A 70-year-old man and four other people of the family cried, ejaculated, sobbed, etc. in a frantic manner the whole night, and the ...
Police increasingly suspect that the killing of two patients at a hospital in Yokohama may have been conducted by a person connected with the facility and with medical knowledge, investigative sources said Thursday. The person may also have randomly sought to tamper with intravenous drips ...
Police investigating a possible serial poisoner at a Yokohama hospital believe the killer injected a toxin into multiple intravenous drip bags after they were brought out of storage. A chemical used in disinfectant that likely killed two elderly male patients at Oguchi Hospital may have ...
President Vladimir Putin probably approved a plan by Russia's FSB security service to kill former agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died three weeks after drinking tea laced with poison at a London hotel, a British judge said Thursday. In a lengthy report, Judge Robert Owen said ...
A Kyushu man in his 20s died last year from caffeine intoxication after drinking large quantities of caffeinated beverages daily over a long period to fight fatigue, researchers at Fukuoka University said. Although something, possibly part of a caffeine pill, was extracted from his stomach, ...
French investigating magistrates have decided to drop an inquiry into the death in France of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whose widow alleged he was poisoned, the prosecutors office said on Wednesday. A lawyer for his widow, Suha Arafat, who has argued that his death ...
Federal court officers have recommended a sentence of life in prison for a peanut company executive convicted of selling salmonella-tainted food, a move that attorneys on both sides called "unprecedented" for a food-poisoning case. The potential life sentence for former Peanut Corporation of America owner ...
A prime suspect in the poisoning of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko appears to have broken his silence to say he will cooperate with a British inquiry into the death. Inquiry attorney Robin Tam said Thursday that a man calling himself Dmitry Kovtun had contacted ...
A female 19-year-old student who has admitted killing an elderly woman and poisoning a male high school classmate appeared to show no discomfort over what she did, allowing the woman’s corpse to remain in her apartment for weeks as it decomposed.
A woman charged with poisoning her husband faces a second murder charge, bolstering suspicions she had a hand in the deaths of several other former partners.
An ailing 88-year-old man on death row has had his eighth petition for a retrial thrown out by the Nagoya High Court, his lawyers say.
Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd.'s warnings of tainted ingredients in some products of the world's largest dairy exporter is the latest blow to baby formula sellers amid Chinese consumers' concerns about food safety. The possible threat of some baby formula with the contaminated ingredients stocked on ...
