International Business News - Death http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Three sumo wrestlers and a former instructor went on trial Tuesday for allegedly beating a younger wrestler to death during training last year. Seventeen-year-old wrestler Tokitaizan, whose real name was Takashi Saito, died June 26 after he collapsed following practice. An autopsy showed bruises and wounds on his body that did not appear consistent with sumo training. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/sumo-wrestlers-on-trial-in-training-mates-death.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:32:01 EDT The official death toll from four storms that ravaged Haiti this summer has nearly doubled to some 800 people, authorities said Friday. Civil defense director Maria-Alta Jean Baptiste said in an interview with The Associated Press that 793 bodies have been found so far, and authorities are still looking for bodies in the mud that swamped coastal settlements. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081003/haiti-raises-storm-death-toll-to-nearly-800.htm Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:30:58 EDT A 7-year-old Texas boy who died after he was found hanging from a hook in a school bathroom may have been playing a game called "run and jump," according to a police report. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081003/boys-death-in-school-bathroom-attributed-to-game.htm Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:11:30 EDT As police questioned an unemployed man suspected of setting fire to a crowded adult video theater in western Japan, killing 15, fire officials warned Thursday that thousands of karaoke, video and comic book lounges across the country may be potential death traps because of widespread safety violations. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/deadly-fire-raises-japan-building-safety-fears.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:32:00 EDT A Virginia federal prison remained on lockdown Wednesday after the second homicide at the maximum-security facility since it opened in 2002, a spokesman said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/va-federal-prison-locked-down-after-inmate-dies.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:34:07 EDT Prosecutors dropped manslaughter charges Wednesday against the last two Bourbon Street bouncers accused of suffocating a visiting Georgia college student to death after a dispute about getting into a French Quarter karaoke bar on New Year's Eve 2004. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/charges-dropped-against-bourbon-st-bouncers.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:13:01 EDT A Missouri woman is dead after injuring herself while trying to do somersaults on an inflatable slide during her stepson's birthday party. Ambulance district official Curt Steve says the family was celebrating the boy's 8th birthday Sunday. They were at a party outlet south of St. Louis when Sheri Stevens was hurt. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/mo-woman-dies-in-inflatable-slide-accident.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:06:56 EDT Some lawyers and investigators have abused an Illinois state fund that helps pay court expenses in death penalty cases, according to a state official who called for stricter oversight. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/ill-treasurer-questions-billing-to-execution-fund.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:02:42 EDT A Denver woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the starvation death of a 7-year-old boy has been sentenced to 48 years in prison. Sarah Berry and her husband were supposed to be caring for Chandler Grafner when he died in May 2007. Authorities say Chandler was denied food and water and spent hours locked in a closet where he had to urinate and defecate. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/woman-gets-48-years-in-boys-starvation-death.htm Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:45:51 EDT Phillip Yeager, 80, founder and chairman of transportation management company Hub Group Inc., has died. Hub Group said Monday that Yeager died from complications following a heart attack. It did not disclose when he died. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/founder-and-chairman-of-hub-group-dies.htm Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:30:02 EDT Guyana's labor minister says he will fine a Hong Kong timber company for failing to report a worker's death. Manzoor Nadir says Jaling Forest Industries Inc. never responded to inquiries about the death of a 56-year-old Malaysian worker despite repeated requests. Nadir says the company could face a $300 fine and that he will seek to toughen laws regarding worker deaths and injuries. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/guyana-to-fine-hong-kong-timber-company-over-death.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:19:17 EDT A Green Beret accused of killing an Afghan civilian and cutting off his ear has been released from jail to await his military trial. Capt. Chris Augustine of the Army Special Forces Command said Friday that Master Sgt. Joseph D. Newell had been released, but was confined to Fort Bragg. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/green-beret-charged-in-afghan-death-out-of-nc-brig.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:32:45 EDT Opposition parties said Friday that the former head of Kyrgyzstan's election commission has fled the country after receiving death threats from the president's son in a dispute over upcoming elections. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/kyrgyz-opposition-says-election-chief-in-hiding.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:33:20 EDT An officer appears to have violated police department guidelines when he used a Taser stun gun on a naked, distraught man teetering on a building ledge, officials said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/man-falls-to-death-after-police-stun-gun-shock.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:24:24 EDT An energy company's decision to cut off electricity to a New Zealand woman's home because of an unpaid bill contributed to her death from morbid obesity, a coroner's court ruled Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080923/nz-coroner-power-cut-contributed-to-womans-death.htm Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:22:25 EDT A man convicted in the dragging death of an Eastern Washington University student has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Wendell C. Sinn Jr. was sentenced Monday. Last week, the 45-year-old entered an Alford plea to second-degree manslaughter, meaning he didn't admit guilt but felt he would be found guilty if he went to trial for the death of Jerid S. Sturman-Camyn. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/washington-man-gets-27-months-in-dragging-death.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:27:46 EDT One capital murder trial is under way and another is about to start in New Hampshire, a state that last executed someone in 1939, has no one on death row and has no death chamber. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/135987-new-hampshire-deaath-penalty-debate.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/2-rare-capital-trials-conducted-in-new-hampshire.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/2-rare-capital-trials-conducted-in-new-hampshire.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:03:41 EDT After she was brutally beaten by her stepfather, 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown lay naked, weeping and begging for her mother, but prosecutors said no one came to her aid or called for medical help until hours after she died. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/136039-child-death.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/mother-of-battered-7-year-old-ny-girl-on-trial.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/mother-of-battered-7-year-old-ny-girl-on-trial.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:04:13 EDT The Navy says a sailor died in an apparent accident on board a ballistic missile submarine off Oahu over the weekend. Spokesman Lt. Cmdr. David Benham says the accident on the Bangor, Wash.-based USS Nebraska didn't affect the ship and no one else was injured. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/navy-submarine-sailor-dies-in-accident-off-hawaii.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:26:35 EDT A 19-year-old woman was convicted Friday of murdering her roommate in their University of Arizona dorm room by stabbing her 23 times. Galareka Harrison made no expression as the jury's verdict was read in Pima County Superior Court. She was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of 18-year-old Mia Henderson, a fellow Navajo tribal member from northern Arizona. She was also found guilty of three counts of forgery and one count of identity theft. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/college-student-convicted-of-killing-roommate.htm Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:04:29 EDT