SHIKOKU Pesticide detected on the surface of packages containing Chinese-made “gyoza” dumplings in a co-op store in Tokushima Prefecture must have come from insecticide used in the store, Tokushima’s Governor said Thursday. [KYODO]

SHIKOKU Two men were killed Sunday when a five-meter-high mud-plastered wall collapsed on them at a warehouse they were demolishing, police said. [YOMIURI]

SHIKOKU Police on Tuesday rearrested a 61-year-old man, already under arrest on suspicion of abandoning the bodies of his 58-year-old sister-in-law Keiko Miura and her two granddaughters in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, on suspicion of murdering the three. [YOMIURI]

SHIKOKU Police have determined that a man under arrest on suspicion of abandoning the bodies of a woman and her two granddaughters could have acted alone in murdering the three, it has been learned. [YOMIURI]

SHIKOKU A man arrested recently on suspicion of abandoning the bodies of a woman and her two granddaughters in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, apparently took the woman’s bicycle, shoes and mobile phone to create the impression she had taken the girls away, according to police. [YOMIURI]

SHIKOKU A man’s murder confession led police Wednesday to the discovery of three buried bodies, identified as those of a 58-year-old woman and her two granddaughters, near a pier at Sakaide port in Kagawa Prefecture. [THE JAPAN TIMES]

SHIKOKU Police arrested Tuesday night a man who admitted killing his sister-in-law and her two granddaughters in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture. [YOMIURI]

SHIKOKU Prisoners making paper bags at Tokushima Prison rioted, attacking guards and causing injuries to several people before being quelled in a few minutes, prison officials said. [MAINICHI]

SHIKOKU A 58-year-old woman and her two granddaughters have gone missing and blood was found in her home in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, police said Friday. [YOMIURI]

SHIKOKU Over-enthusiastic flower festival goers went too far when given an invitation to take home out-of-season blooming sunflowers, stripping bare a field of 800000 plants in three days, with one person even going away with a truckload, organizers said. [MAINICHI]

SHIKOKU A 19-year-old vocational school student was arrested Friday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend Thursday night after getting into an argument over whether to break up, police said. [MAINICHI]

SHIKOKU Prefectural authorities in Kagawa have ordered a day-care facility to shut down after its boss was found to have repeatedly abused children at the facility by using a vacuum cleaner on a child’s head, among other violent acts. [MAINICHI]

SHIKOKU A 23-year-old man has been served a fresh warrant over suspicion of robbing and killing an elderly woman in September at her home in Toon, Ehime Prefecture, police said. [YOMIURI]

SHIKOKU Coral colonies off Kashiwajima island have been bleached by rising sea temperatures, according to Kuroshio Zikkan Center in Kochi Prefecture. [YOMIURI]

SHIKOKU A police officer who sued the Ehime Prefectural Government for ill treatment after he exposed a prefectural police slush fund was awarded 1 million yen in damages in a ruling at a court here on Tuesday. [MSN MAINICHI]

SHIKOKU The president and four former executives of a farmed pearl sales company in Ainancho, Ehime Prefecture, were arrested in connection with an alleged scam to defraud about 2,200 people out of a total of 4.8 billion yen, the police said Monday. [YOMIURI]

SHIKOKU Inappropriate braking and problems involving the way an automatic train stop (ATS) system was installed were responsible for a train crash in Kochi Prefecture in 2005 that left its driver dead, a government panel said. [MSN MAINICHI]

SHIKOKU Australian beef that a retailer here obtained from a meat wholesaler in the Kagawa Prefecture city of Mitoyo was falsely labeled as Japanese beef before it was delivered for use in school lunches. [MSN MAINICHI]

SHIKOKU Five youths have been arrested on suspicion of making 26 prank calls to the police from public telephones in Utazucho, Kagawa Prefecture, early Saturday, according to the police. [YOMIURI]

SHIKOKU Kochi University on Friday decided to suspend lectures at its Oko campus for eight days, after several students in the medical school at the campus tested positive for whooping cough. [MSN MAINICHI]