Poisoning

Poisoning

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  Family quarrels add intrigue to lotto winner death

  In the week since news surfaced that a Chicago man was poisoned to death with cyanide just before he was to collect a lottery payout, surprising ... 

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  Wife says poisoned lottery winner had no enemies

  The wife of a Chicago lottery winner who was poisoned with cyanide said Tuesday she was devastated by his death and cannot believe her husband could ... 

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  2nd Winehouse inquest confirms alcohol death

  Amy Winehouse died from accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after a period of abstinence, a second coroner's inquest confirmed ... 

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  Lawyer: Killed Kremlin critic worked for UK spies

  Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian agent-turned-Kremlin critic, was a "registered and paid" agent working for Britain's foreign intelligence ... 

• Autopsy on former Turkish leader inconclusive

  Authorities investigating former President Turgut Ozal's death in office in April 1993 found traces of toxic material in samples from his exhumed body ... 

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  New tests could hamper food outbreak detection

  New tests that promise to speed up diagnosis of food poisoning pose an unexpected problem: They could make it more difficult to identify dangerous ... 

• Scare prompts look at carbon monoxide detectors

  It's odorless, colorless and deadly. And if carbon monoxide is leaking in a school, it might not be detected until people are ill. A leak at an ... 

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  Arafat grave dug up for probe of poison suspicion

  Eight years after Yasser Arafat's mysterious death, his political heirs opened his grave Tuesday and let forensics experts take samples from his ... 

• 3rd person dies in Calif. from mushroom poisoning

  A third person has died from eating poisonous mushrooms at a California senior care facility where a caretaker found the fungus in the backyard and ...