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Three people were found dead in a locked vehicle here Tuesday, apparently after they gassed themselves to death in a suicide pact, police said.

When officers arrived they found the bodies of a man and two women inside. The rear of the vehicle contained three portable gas stoves with briquettes inside them. The windows of the vehicle had been taped shut from the inside.

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Three operators of a nursing school here were arrested Sunday for cooking books to receive government subsidies, then using the money received to pay back loans taken out with the yakuza, police said.

Mikio Umetani, 71, former president of the Heiwa Gakuin foundation operating the Heiwa Gakuin nursing school in Koshigaya, Takao Akiyama, 41, and Yasushi Izawa, 65, past and current employees, were arrested for...
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Three people connected to the AUM Shinrikyo cult have been arrested on suspicion of renting an apartment and secretly using it as a cult facility, police said Tuesday.
Arrested on suspicion of fraud were a 41-year-old member who headed the cult's Sendai facility, and two brothers who were lay members for the cult, which now calls itself Aleph.
Investigators said the three made a contract...
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A young man and two women were found dead in a car here Sunday in a suspected group suicide, police said.
At around 3:05 p.m., a passer-by found a man and two women dead in a car parked in a forest in the Fujiwara district of Minakami, about eight kilometers northeast of JR Minakami Station, and alerted police.
Officers rushed to the scene, and confirmed...
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Four people were found dead in a Tokyo apartment early Sunday, apparently after they joined in a suicide pact and gassed themselves to death, police said.
The four were found in a small room in the Nerima-ku apartment at about 12:45 a.m. on Sunday, after a friend of a man living there received a key and a note in the mail, prompting him to visit,...
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A high school boy died and a high school girl was injured after jumping from a bridge into a speeding train in western Tokyo Thursday night in a suspected suicide pact, police said Friday.
Investigators said they believe that the boy and the girl jumped from a pedestrian overpass onto the Hachiko Line track in a suicide pact and were hit by an oncoming train,...
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (24/11/04) - The UN is investigating some 150 allegations of sexual abuse by its civilian staff and soldiers serving as peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with some offenses allegedly recorded on videotape.
International peacekeepers' involvement with prostitutes has long been a problem for UN personnel serving around the world. Six UN policemen in Bosnia and Herzegovina were sent home in...
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Two women were found dead in a car parked here in what appeared to be a suicide pact after a local police station received a letter with information on their location, investigators said.
At around 2:30 p.m., Monday, Tsukuba Chuo Police Station received a letter from an anonymous person saying, "We are going to commit suicide by burning briquettes near a forest road on Mount...
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Astronauts could one day be protected from harmful cosmic rays during a long haul spaceflight by a powerful magnetic bubble generated by their own craft.
A new project to investigate the possibility of fitting spacecraft with a magnetosphere of their own, underway at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, recently received a cash boost from the NASA-funded Institute for Advanced Concepts.

so i just got back from my army physical...early. turns out that the mystery surgery the 'rents won't talk to me about has to be profiled more than "surgery, age four."

maybe i'll finally get some answers when the army retrieves my records.

Three people were found dead in two locked cars after they apparently committed suicide by burning charcoal and briquettes to poison themselves, police said.
Odawara Police Station officers arrived on the scene to find the bodies of a 55-year-old man from Tokyo and a middle-aged woman.
They also found burnt charcoal in a pan inside the car, leading police to believe they had committed suicide....
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