CHICAGO (CBS) - A northwest suburban man has pleaded guilty to trying to kill his wife with poison from a puffer fish.Edward F. Bachner IV, of Lake in the Hills, apparently wanted to collect $20 ...

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A Fort Hood staff sergeant, who worked on post as an investigator with the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, was sentenced to 70 years in prison for murdering his wife with puffer fish poison, U ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A 38-year-old suburban Chicago man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to obtaining a deadly puffer-fish poison to deploy as a weapon, which federal authorities had once accused him of wanting to ...

The couple’s daughter, Ng Ai Lee, said her father purchased the puffer fish — a delicacy known to contain extremely potent poisons — from a local fish shop on March 25. “My parents have been buying ...

To eat fugu is to put your life on the line. That's why Japanese chefs must train for years before serving the notoriously poison puffer fish to the public. For more than 45 years, chef Sasaki has ...

A delicacy in Japanese cuisine, puffer fish (fugu) also contain a lethal toxin. Improperly prepared puffer fish can cause the person eating it to experience food poisoning and a swift death. Such a ...

To help effectively investigate, remove unsafe seafood products from the market, and develop new prevention strategies, the FDA relies on illness reporting from public health officials and healthcare ...