Poisoning

A Wisconsin woman who fatally poisoned her friend and stole nearly $300,000 from her has been sentenced to life in prison.

A Texas man who slipped abortion drugs into his wife’s drinks several times has been sentenced to 180 days in jail and ten years on probation.

The FDA is advising parents to throw out WanaBana Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree Pouches due to “extremely high concentrations of lead” discovered in the product.

An author of a children’s book that teaches children how to deal with the loss of a loved one is now charged with the death of her husband.

A Texas suspects she was poisoned by touching a napkin stuffed in her car’s door handle outside a Houston restaurant. Doctors agreed she had been poisoned but were unable to identify the poisonous material.

Government officials in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province said at least 21 teenagers were “found dead” at a bar on Sunday morning under unclear circumstances, South Africa’s DispatchLive reported, noting that while the cause of the deaths remains unknown, some have speculated that the youths may have been “exposed to some form of poison.”

A 63-year-old Sri Lankan domestic worker is on trial in the French department of Hauts-de-Seine this week after being accused of poisoning several people with sleeping pills, including a woman who died as a result.

Russian President Vladimir Putin urged American counterpart Joe Biden to “stay healthy!” after reporters asked him Thursday to respond to Biden’s comments calling Putin a “killer.”

Experts concluded this week that lead and nickel content in drinking water was the primary cause of a “mysterious illness” affecting nearly 600 people in India’s southeastern Andhra Pradesh state in recent days.

A leaked email has warned soldiers about possible poison attacks from those delivering food through apps like Uber Eats and Deliveroo. 

Doctors removed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from a medically induced coma and say he is “responding to verbal stimuli,” Berlin’s Charité hospital announced Monday.

A paedophile former University of Cambridge research fellow who sent ex-Prime Minister Theresa May a hoax package containing a white powder, intended to appear as poison, has been jailed.

The mayor of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, has been placed under police protection amidst claims that the Russian government had attempted to poison those responsible for removing a statue of a Soviet general statue from the city. The mayor and Ondřej

More than 700 Iranians have died after ingesting toxic methanol in the false belief that it provides a cure for the Chinese coronavirus, according to figures from the country’s national coroner’s authority.

A teacher was suspended Wednesday for allegedly washing a student’s mouth out with hand sanitizer in Wellington, Florida, in October.

Two men have been arrested after three young women reported finding kebabs purchased from the Istanbul Grill in Bognor Regis, England, were laced with white pills.

Tainted alcohol is the suspected cause of death of at least 19 adults in Costa Rica earlier this month, local officials confirmed this weekend.

LONDON (AP) — One of the two suspects in the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in England is a medical doctor in Russian military intelligence who was honored as a Hero of the Russian Federation by President Vladimir Putin in 2014, a group of British investigators said Tuesday.

It is “highly plausible” that a member of the Russian anti-Putin feminist punk band Pussy Riot was poisoned, doctors confirmed on Tuesday, after Pyotr Verzilov mysteriously fell ill.

Police Race to Find Source of New Nerve Agent Poisoning

An English family and four of the firefighters who responded to their call on March 26 were hospitalized after a fish tank cleaning gone wrong.

A woman who ingested poison she bought online to bring on an illegal late-term abortion has been jailed. She was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant with her son Luke when she took the poison, which brought on a miscarriage, resulting

On September 3rd, French prosecutors closed their investigation into the 2004 death of Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Yasser Arafat.

The Taliban is suspected of poisoning as many as 126 schoolgirls and female teachers at a private school in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat, according to various news outlets.

Four Saudi children have died and 28 others have been hospitalized due to a poisoning in an Iranian hotel. Three of the dead were only three years old and the fourth was a 14-year-old girl.

The world of dog showing is not normally known for scandal and intrigue, but this year the world-famous Crufts competition has been rocked by the news that one of its competitors, three year old Irish Setter Jagger, was poisoned at the