The popular deejay had a number of drugs in his system at the time of his death
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a former California Sunday school teacher accused of killing an 8-year-old girl earlier this year.
Authorities in China's south-central Hunan province are associating disgruntled parents of children stricken by lead poisoning with the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong.
Hengjiang Village is nestled in the lush mountains of China's Hunan province, just a few kilometers from the bustling city of Wugang. It is a simple place, where mopeds carrying families of four zoom up and down dirt roads, and villagers drink water from local wells.
At the Fengxiang County Hospital in Shaanxi Province, children are sleeping two to a bed. Cots line the hallways and hospital beds crowd offices to accommodate the ceaseless flow of new patients. In the last two weeks, so many children have been diagnosed with lead poisoning that there's barely enough room for everyone.
China is shutting down a pair of smelting plants suspected of sickening several thousand children with lead poisoning, according to state-run media.
Abnormal lead levels have been detected in at least 615 children living near a smelting plant in northwest China, state media reported Thursday.
The Jackson family knows that the probe into singer Michael Jackson's death could turn into a criminal case, a source close to the family told CNN Thursday.
A brand of imported pet food is being pulled off store shelves in China after reports of dogs being sickened by it, a company official said Tuesday.
After treatment for mercury poisoning, the Emmy winner alters his diet
The popular deejay had a number of drugs in his system at the time of his death
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a former California Sunday school teacher accused of killing an 8-year-old girl earlier this year.
Authorities in China's south-central Hunan province are associating disgruntled parents of children stricken by lead poisoning with the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong.
Hengjiang Village is nestled in the lush mountains of China's Hunan province, just a few kilometers from the bustling city of Wugang. It is a simple place, where mopeds carrying families of four zoom up and down dirt roads, and villagers drink water from local wells.
At the Fengxiang County Hospital in Shaanxi Province, children are sleeping two to a bed. Cots line the hallways and hospital beds crowd offices to accommodate the ceaseless flow of new patients. In the last two weeks, so many children have been diagnosed with lead poisoning that there's barely enough room for everyone.
China is shutting down a pair of smelting plants suspected of sickening several thousand children with lead poisoning, according to state-run media.
Abnormal lead levels have been detected in at least 615 children living near a smelting plant in northwest China, state media reported Thursday.
The Jackson family knows that the probe into singer Michael Jackson's death could turn into a criminal case, a source close to the family told CNN Thursday.
A brand of imported pet food is being pulled off store shelves in China after reports of dogs being sickened by it, a company official said Tuesday.
After treatment for mercury poisoning, the Emmy winner alters his diet
Melissa Huckaby, the former Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping, raping and killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, will face additional charges that she tried to poison two people, including another 7-year-old girl.
At least 31 Mexicans have died from causes relating to cold weather since early October, most of them from carbon monoxide poisoning, the government health ministry said Monday.
At least 17 people have died from a gas leak at a steel plant in China's northern Hebei province, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported early Thursday.
The holiday season is a great time for family, friends, and well, old wives' tales: Who hasn't been told to wear a hat because you lose the most heat from your head? Or to keep kids away from poisonous poinsettias?
Eleven schoolgirls in northwest China's Shaanxi province died from carbon monoxide poisoning after they used a school-provided charcoal heater to warm their dorm room, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday.
Modern science may have unraveled a mystery about the death of one of China's last emperors.
More than a hundred villagers in southern China have been poisoned by after drinking water apparently contaminated with arsenic, official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday
The final hours brought the awful realization to victims of Hurricane Ike that they had waited too long; this storm wasn't like the others
Almost a quarter century later, survivors of one of the world's worst industrial disasters are pressing India's authorities to hold a U.S. corporation accountable
Ecological and conservation groups are praising a move by the Environmental Protection Agency to impose new restrictions on rat poisons to help reduce the threat of accidental exposure to children and wildlife.
Health officials are warning New Yorkers to stay away from an illegal aphrodisiac made from toad venom after the product apparently killed a man
Kenyan Martin Lel won the London Marathon for the third time in four years in a course record time on Sunday when Irina Mikitenko of Germany took the women's race.
Islamic terrorists planned to attack Beijing, Shanghai and other Chinese locations with poisonous gas and explosives to sabotage the Summer Olympic Games, China announced Thursday.
Chinese-made frozen food has sickened ten people in Japan, prompting recalls and charges of deliberate poisoning. But both governments are eager to avoid escalating the conflict
Two U.S. sailors who were found dead in a Ghana hotel room may have died of alcohol poisoning, a Navy official told CNN on Wednesday.
German tennis star Tommy Haas is to have further tests to determine if he was poisoned during their Davis Cup semifinal defeat to Russia in September.
After a Rider University freshman died following a drinking binge at an on-campus fraternity, prosecutors made the unusual step of indicting two university officials.
Workers found vials believed to contain the poison gas phosgene at a U.N. office building in New York, U.N. officials said Thursday.
Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist claims the composer's physician did -- inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a case of a cure that went wrong.
Carbon monoxide poisoning remains a danger year-round in the United States, but health officials warn that hurricane season increases that danger.
A class-action lawsuit was filed Monday against Mattel related to its recent recall of more than 1 million lead-tainted toys.
British officials seeking to prosecute a former KGB agent for the murder of an outspoken Kremlin critic were on Wednesday preparing a formal extradition request that Russia has already said it will reject.
British prosecutors are to ask Russia to extradite businessman and former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi to face murder charges in the radioactive poisoning death of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
Russian prosecutors say they will refuse to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, charged by Britain in the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, to London because of a constitutional ban.
Toxicology tests confirmed Friday that two American women are suffering from thallium poisoning, according to a California hospital.
Two American women who were hospitalized in Moscow earlier this week with possible thallium poisoning were in fair but stable condition Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, the hospital said.
World Cup cricket squads from South Africa, Pakistan, Canada and Ireland were evacuated from their Trinidad hotel after leaking gas caused a blast early Wednesday.
Two American women have been released from a Moscow clinic after they were hospitalized with possible thallium poisoning, a hospital official said.
A cloud of deadly toxic gas engulfed an Iraqi town Tuesday, killing six people and leaving dozens of others choking on fumes after a tanker carrying chlorine exploded outside a restaurant.
A woman was found guilty on Tuesday of poisoning her Marine husband with arsenic to obtain $250,000 in veteran's benefits and pay for breast implant surgery.
You turn your head, and your toddler is gleefully shredding the work papers you brought home. Or you put the laundry basket on the floor, and next thing you know the baby's tipped it over and is covered with underwear.
Five hundred Americans die each year from carbon monoxide poisoning. It's estimated that 15,000 people are treated at hospital emergency rooms for the condition.
An Italian man who met with former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko the day Litvinenko was poisoned was arrested Sunday on other charges, police said.
A private funeral was due to take place in London Thursday for murdered Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko.
British police said Wednesday they were now treating the fatal poisoning case of a former Russian agent as a murder investigation.
The Italian security consultant who met Alexander Litvinenko on the day he was believed to have been poisoned said he wanted to warn the ex-spy his life was in danger.
Russia will refuse to extradite any suspects in the radioactive poisoning death of a former spy and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin to Britain, the country's top prosecutor has said.
A U.S.-based friend of a poisoned Russian ex-spy says he has given police the name of a suspect he believes orchestrated the killing of Alexander Litvinenko.
British detectives investigating the death of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko are now pursuing inquiries in both London and Moscow. CNN's The Briefing Room has compiled a guide to who's who in the spy scandal.
British investigators were checking two more locations, including a London hotel, for possible radiation contamination in their probe of the fatal polonium-210 poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
Three British Airways planes, grounded while authorities examined them for traces of radiation, have been cleared to return to service, officials with Britain's Health Protection Agency said Saturday.
Doctors for former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar suspect he was poisoned when he fell ill last week in Ireland, his daughter, Maria Gaidar, said Thursday.
Police investigating the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko have sealed off the offices of exiled billionaire Boris Berezovsky following the discovery there of traces of a deadly radioactive substance.
Three people have been referred to a special clinic for radiological tests following the death of a former Russian spy in London, a spokeswoman for Britain's Health Protection Agency (HPA) said on Monday.
Three people have undergone testing for possible radioactive contamination following the death of a former Russian spy in London, British Home Secretary John Reid said on Monday.
Police in Britain are studying security camera footage after finding radioactive traces at three London locations visited by a former Russian spy who accused Vladimir Putin of his murder in a deathbed statement.
Traces of radioactive material that apparently killed a former Russian spy investigating the death of a Russian journalist were found at places where he ate and met other spies just before falling ill, British authorities said Friday.
A Russian former spy died Thursday night in a London hospital three weeks after his suspected poisoning, with doctors unable to determine the cause of his illness, hospital officials and police said.
While doctors scrambled to determine how a former Russian spy and prominent Kremlin critic was poisoned Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service again denied its involvement, arguing "such steps are not in our interest," a Russian official told Russian news agency Interfax.
Doctors are still trying to determine how a former Russian spy and prominent Kremlin critic was poisoned, but they have discounted suspicions that the toxic metal thallium was used, hospital officials said Tuesday.
In a week in which the latest James Bond movie premiered a few streets away in Leicester Square, the news of the apparent poisoning of a former KGB spy in a London sushi bar offered a glimpse into a real-life world of intrigue and espionage.
The city allowed people to return to Manhattan after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers even though officials were told the air was not yet safe, according to an internal memo from a New York City Health Department official.
Randy McCloy, the only survivor of a January accident that killed 12 coal miners, left a Morgantown, West Virginia, hospital Thursday to recover at his home on newly named Miracle Road.
Two companies recalled nearly 900,000 pieces of children's jewelry products due to lead poisoning risks, following the death of a Minnesota child, U.S. regulators said Thursday.
Following the deaths of 14 West Virginia miners in less than three weeks, state lawmakers on Monday approved legislation aimed at improving the chances of survival for miners trapped underground.
More than two weeks after surviving a West Virginia coal mine explosion and 40 hours trapped underground, Randal McCloy is awakening from his coma, his neurosurgeon said on Wednesday.
Home heating costs are expected to be about 25 percent higher this year. What's even more chilling is that during the winter months, there is at least one death a day from alternative heating sources, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The brain stem of the lone survivor of last week's mine disaster is normal, his liver has recovered most of its function and he moves his arm to ward off painful stimuli, doctors reported Monday morning.
The sole survivor of a West Virginia mine explosion was dramatically improving Saturday as he struggled to fend off the carbon monoxide poisoning that killed his co-workers, a doctor said.
The sole survivor of a mine explosion that killed 12 of his co-workers underwent the first in a series of oxygen treatments intended to flush a poison gas from his body, a doctor said.
In an emergency or black-out, you'll want to keep your crucial appliances running -- and that means a generator. But these handy machines can be tricky to use.
Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko declared victory early Monday in Ukraine's presidential election, telling supporters it is the dawn of a new political era in the former Soviet republic.
The two men vying to become president of Ukraine exchanged attacks in a bare-knuckled television debate, six days before they face new elections that will be watched closely in many parts of the world.
The chief of staff to Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko says he was warned more than four months ago that the politician's life could be in danger.
Ukraine lawmakers have reopened their investigation in opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko's disfiguring illness after doctors in Austria said he was poisoned.
Dioxin poisoning caused the disfiguring illness afflicting Ukrainian opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, doctors at an Austrian hospital said Saturday.
Health officials in Florida and New Jersey are investigating whether four people -- hospitalized in those two states -- may have contracted botulism from Botox injections.
Four toy jewelry importers have recalled 150 million pieces of toy jewelry sold in vending machines across America due to dangerous levels of lead.
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