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Calif. Aims to Rid Lake of Northern Pike
Sep 25 2007, AP

State workers on Tuesday began pouring a toxic chemical into a lake nestled in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada as part of California’s decade-long effort to exterminate a predatory northern pike.A fleet of 25 boats set out on Lake Davis near Portola...

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15 fisherman die in Indonesia, alcohol suspected
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Authorities say 15 fisherman have died of suspected alcohol poisoning in Indonesia’s eastern Papua province.
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Ex-ally denies Ukraine leader poisoning
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A former friend and ally of the Ukrainian president on Friday denied involvement in his nearly lethal poisoning four years ago and said that the leader’s...
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Mom accused of poisoning son sent to Pa. hospital
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A mother accused in Pittsburgh of deliberately injecting her 4-month-old son with salt water will be sent to a state mental hospital after a psychiatrist determined she...
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NJ officials warn of lamp oil poisonings
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Suspected dog poisoning at Toronto dog park
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Lead from car batteries contaminates African town
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Louisiana teenager accused of poisoning teacher
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Ex-Frat Leader Settles N.J. Death Case
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The former president of a fraternity at Rider University has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a pledge who drank himself to death last year, the family’s...
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Americans didn’t suffer more food poisoning last year over the previous year despite high-profile outbreaks involving peanut butter, pot pies and other foods.But...
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Teen Charged in Grandmother's Poisoning
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A judge has declared a 15-year-old Michigan girl competent to stand trial as an adult on charges of poisoning her grandmother.Kristina Adkins faces an April 15...
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China: Food Poisoning Deaths Up in 2007
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Woman Gets 30 Years for Poison Plot
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Wis. Man Gets Life in Wife's Poisoning
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Man Convicted of Poisoning Gets Life
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Court Decision Could Affect Wis. Appeal
AP, Milwaukee
An accusatory letter penned by a woman who turned up dead ultimately helped a jury convict her husband. But it also could be what gets him a new trial in the nearly...
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Jury: Man Poisoned Wife With Antifreeze
AP, Elkhorn
Before she was killed, Julie Jensen left a note with a neighbor suggesting that if she died, her husband would be to blame. Nearly a decade after she was poisoned and...
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Jury: Man Used Antifreeze to Kill Wife
AP, Elkhorn
A jury has convicted a man of poisoning his wife with antifreeze and then suffocating her.A jury has found Mark Jensen guilty of first-degree murder in the 1998 death...
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Wisconsin Jury Weighs Poisoning Case
AP, Elkhorn
Jurors concluded a second day of deliberations Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of killing his wife, who left a note saying he should be a suspect if anything...
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko speaks to reporters before being questioned by prosecutors in a probe into his nearly lethal poisoning four years ago in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 22, 2008.

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