11.   Police were investigating professional negligence by Murata, Japanese media reported.

12.   A leading hemophilia expert was formally charged Wednesday with professional negligence for giving unheated blood to a hemophiliac patient who later died of AIDS.

13.   A police probe was focused on suspicions of professional negligence, a Tokyo police spokesman said, without elaborating.

14.   A U.S. Marine pleaded guilty Wednesday in an Okinawa court to charges of hit-and-run, death through professional negligence and drunken driving in an accident that killed a teen-ager.

15.   After questioning Mills, police arrested him on charges of professional negligence resulting in death.

16.   AN investor has filed a writ against Morgan Stanley Asia, alleging professional negligence.

17.   Another Japanese health official and three former presidents of a pharmaceutical company also face trial on professional negligence charges.

18.   Dioscoro Matunoc was arrested late Wednesday for allegedly causing bodily injury through professional negligence, and was being questioned Thursday by the Maritime Safety Agency, officials said.

19.   Eskridge has pleaded guilty to charges of hit-and-run, death through professional negligence and drunken driving.

20.   Eskridge was charged Tuesday with hit and run, driving under the influence of alcohol and causing injury through professional negligence.