A black backpack on a Detroit airport conveyor belt set off a chain of events that now stretches from Midwestern farm fields ...

A Chinese researcher who smuggled a crop-killing fungus dubbed “vomitoxin” into the US has been deported, officials announced ...

A Chinese national who pleaded guilty to smuggling dangerous pathogens into Michigan has been deported, an FBI official said.

Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu are charged with conspiracy, smuggling, making false statements and visa fraud for allegedly bringing the fungus Fusarium graminearum into the U.S. Jian, 33, was booked in ...

DETROIT (AP) — Lawyers for a Chinese scientist charged with conspiring to nurse a toxic fungus at a University of Michigan lab already are in talks to try to resolve the case, according to a court ...

Federal prosecutors charged two Chinese researchers June 3 with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer — charges that come amid heightened political tensions between the two ...