- Stronger Yuan Needed for Global Rebalancing: IMF Chief
- Washington Not Trying to Contain China: Obama
- Japan Third Quarter GDP Jumps; 2010 Growth May Slow
- Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Green?
- Citi Rejects Terra Firma's Latest Bid to Save EMI: Report
- JP Morgan to Bid Over $3 Billion for Cazenove Stake
- Analysis: APEC Nations Back Face-Saving Climate Plan
- BlackRock: Central Banks To Be Net Buyers of Gold
- GM to Start Repaying $6.7 Billion US Government Loan
- Warren Buffett to CNBC: 'I Haven't Bought American Express In Years'
- CNBC Video: Warren Buffett & Bill Gates - Keeping American Great
- U.S. Stocks Rally for the Second Straight Week
- Dollar is Not Plunging—So 'Calm Down': Market Strategist
- Strategists Say Markets Have More Upside — But How Much?
- Hirschhorn: Risk-Averse Traders
- Roginsky: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Financial Reform
- This Year's Biggest Thanksgiving Leftover: Cash
- TV Series Inks Unique Deal For Fight
- Obama prods China to accept ‘universal rights’
- Airbus parent EADS reports Q3 loss on weak dollar
- Calif. man set for hearing in wine warehouse fire
- Census: Small US cities lose luster in downturn
- Dakotas might see record sunflower yields
- Emirates chief: Boeing, Airbus orders possible
- Remittances of Filipinos abroad up 8.6 percent
- Source: GM to begin repaying aid by year-end
- MasterCard holiday gift campaign pairs with Amazon
JONESBORO, Ga. - A Georgia man has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for poisoning his children to extort money from Campbell's Soup Co.
William Cunningham was sentenced Thursday after a jury found him guilty of five counts of cruelty to children and two counts of aggravated assault, said Kellie Perry, a clerk at the Clayton County Superior Court.
The girl and boy, then 18 months old and 3 years old, were hospitalized after Cunningham fed them soup tainted with prescription drugs and lighter fluid.
On one occasion, authorities said he used the prescription drugs Prozac and Amitriptyline — both used to treat depression — to poison the children.
Cunningham was arrested in March 2006. According to prosecutors, the former dump truck driver called Campbell in January 2006 and threatened to sue the company because its soup was contaminated. He pleaded guilty in 2007 to a federal charge of making false claims against the company.
Authorities said there was no evidence the soup was tainted when it was purchased. A family member said the children may suffer lifelong respiratory problems after swallowing the poisoned soup.
The children's mother, Rhonda Cunningham, filed for divorce during the case.
First Read: Palin on creationism, Clinton, Fey
Scoop: Will Meyer bite into another ‘Twilight’ book?
Ice addict heads for poles, Everest | Trek posts
Were you paying attention? Take our weekly quiz
World Blog: China puts foot down on 'Oba Mao' T-shirts
Stimulus tracker: See where millions of dollars went
On Twitter: Breaking news updates | Weird and wild
- Where, what, how.
- Warren Buffett and Bill Gates spoke to Columbia students, and Buffett made the students a startling offer.
- For the chief of cable company Comcast, growth has been about making deals – generally very large deals.
- Some companies may start using insurance to shift carbon risk from their balance sheets to maybe... yours?
- The president and founder of Genesis Today wants to improve America’s health, and thinks Wal-Mart can help.
- Switzerland's privacy watchdog is taking legal action to force Google to make changes to its Street View service.








