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<p>MCARTHUR, Calif. — Authorities say two brothers drowned after falling into icy waters while attempting to rescue a dog that fell into a Northern California lake.</p>

A devastated father has told of the moment he had to choose between saving his wife or his son after their car plunged into a river. Stacy Horton arrived at the crash scene less than two minutes after the vehicle went into the the Whanganui River on New Zealand's North Island. He discovered wife Vanessa, 35, struggling in the murky water having escaped the sinking car late on Saturday. But their 13-year-old son, Silva, remained trapped in the vehicle 15 feet beneath the surface. Mr Horton said: 'I tried to get down and get him but I couldn't - it...

In a final call home, Army Sgt. Benjamin Sherman told his sister to tell everyone he loved them, “because I don’t know if I’ll get that chance again.” Sadly, his fears proved true. Sherman was laid to rest yesterday in his hometown of Plymouth in a funeral Mass attended by hundreds. Sherman, 21, was eulogized as a selfless soldier who did what came naturally to him when he jumped into a river in Afghanistan to try to rescue a comrade in distress. “He jumped into that river because he loved deeply, he was pure of heart, and he exhibited the...

Oct. 25, 2009— The man who made $7 billion in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, Jeffry Picower, was found dead in his Palm Beach, Fla., swimming pool Sunday. The Palm Beach Fire Department told ABC News that Picower had no pulse when fire rescue workers arrived at his oceanfront mansion after his wife called 911. She and his housekeeper pulled his body from the pool shortly after noon. No one benefited more from the Madoff scheme that Picower, according to bankruptcy lawyers who sued him and alleged he had taken out $7 billion more than he had put in. Click...

Authorities say he was found at the bottom of his Palm Beach home's pool Sunday afternoon by his wife and could not be revived...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Jeffry Picower, a Florida philanthropist alleged to have extracted billions from Bernard Madoff's investment scheme, drowned in his pool Sunday, police said. He was 67. The former New York lawyer and accountant had been a friend of Madoff for decades. A statement from Palm Beach police said Picower's wife and a maid found the body at the bottom of the pool Sunday afternoon and rescue workers could not revive him. Picower was transported to Good Samaritan Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at about 1:30 p.m.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Three people drowned Friday afternoon in a condominium pool in Orange County, a fire department representative said. Authorities were called to the Laurel Hills Condominiums at 7101 Balboa Drive just after 5 p.m. regarding three possible drowning victims -- an adult, a child and a teenage girl. Images From The Scene A neighbor said an adult had a key and let the three people into the fenced-off pool. The neighbor said it's common for people who live in the area to have keys to the pool. Neighbors said other children saw the people floating in the pool...

Writing for Salon this week, Alexander Zaitchik reports about Glenn Beck's connections to Washington state. glenn-beck The report, which includes references to The News Tribune's coverage of the 1979 drowning death of Beck's mother in Commencement Bay, raises questions about whether Beck is telling the truth about that tragic event: Was it suicide, as Beck claims, or was it an accident? The controversial radio and television talk show host, who stirred a furor over his branding of President Barack Obama as a "racist" earlier this year, is expected to travel to his boyhood home of Mt. Vernon this weekend to...

AUSTRALIA prides itself as the land of sand, sea and surf - but was last year home to the highest number of drownings in five years. Figures released yesterday by the Royal Life Saving Society provided an ominous warning for the summer ahead as thousands of people flock to beaches and waterways. There were 302 drowning deaths in 2008-09 - up 41 from the previous year. It comes as an investigation by The Daily Telegraph found thousands of backyard pools across the state had failed to meet basic safety requirements, with lax councils having failed to carry out safety inspections....

It is being reported that the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) apologized for his role in the Chappaquiddick “incident” in his memoir. In the book, Kennedy acknowledged that “in some small way not entirely clear to me even 40 years later, I may have contributed to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.” The memoir defended the late Senator’s “deferral of admission of responsibility” as “a necessary sacrifice for the national interest. My political enemies would have gladly used it to divert me from my mission to succor the indigent, the improvident, and the irresponsible during my long career of public...

Forty years ago Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy (D-MA) attended a funeral for a 28-year-old Pennsylvania woman. Her death is eerily unremarked, mostly unremembered today, at least in mainstream media. Yet the story left untold is the tragic stuff of a Joseph Conrad novel. As a date in history, July 18 is not particularly noteworthy. Not much happened on that date since the Brits and tempestuous storms decimated the Spanish Armada in 1588. On July 18, 1969, Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in an overturned, submerged Oldsmobile in a back channel off Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. The anniversary of her death is...

MISSION VIEJO – A father who died in a community pool Monday was not a good swimmer and drowned after apparently drifting toward the deep end of the pool while playing with his daughter, said a neighbor who helped pull him out of the water. Mitzi Inman, 46, was at the community pool near La Mancha and Rocinante with her children when 33-year-old Binayak Bhattacharyya was playing with his 5-year-old daughter, she said. She left for five minutes with one of her children and returned to find Bhattacharyya under the water. ((snip)) Bhattacharyya's daughter was wearing a flotation vest...

Saturday, July 18th, was the fortieth anniversary of the day that Mary Jo Kopechne drowned at Chappaquiddick (an island part of Edgartown,Massachusetts) in a car driven off a bridge by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D.-Mass.). And, still, questions linger. What did Kennedy do that night? Was he intoxicated? Why wasn’t he prosecuted? The one question still pondered by political observers on all sides: did what is known universally known as “the Chappadquiddick incident” keep Kennedy from being elected President? Clearly, it did. For younger readers who know Kennedy -- now 77 and battling cancer -- primarily as the premier voice...

A 32-year-old St. George man drowned Saturday while saving his young sons from sinking in a cold Garfield County lake. Shawn Pederson was in a paddle boat in Upper Barker Lake when he noticed that his sons, ages 5 and 7, were having trouble staying above the water as they swam nearby, according to the Garfield County Sheriff's office. Pederson jumped in and kept the boys' heads above water as he tried to get them into the boat. He yelled to J.H. Frost, his father-in-law, and to his brother-in-law, who were on the shore, and the two swam to the...

Earlier this week, ABC, CBS and NBC all noted the tenth anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr. That Kennedy was an “icon” according to CBS’s Harry Smith, and “the Prince of Camelot” to ABC’s Chris Cuomo, a former cousin-in-law. Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, killed July 18, 1969 after leaving a party with Senator Edward Kennedy. That night, Kennedy drove his car off a bridge, and left the scene with Kopechne still in the submerged vehicle; he did not call the police until the following morning. Over the course of...

Here is video of the speech Sen. Ted Kennedy made to try and rehabilitate himself following the death of Mary Jo Kopechne on Chappaquiddick Island after he drove her off a bridge in his car, leaving her to drown on July 19, 1969. Tomorrow will be 40 years since it happened. In this video, he says he finds his own behavior "indefensible" in waiting for hours to call authorities after getting out of the car himself, but leaving Kopechne in the car. Obviously, the entire speech was his attempt to indirectly defend himself. Below is a summary of "The Chappaquiddick...

Just past midnight on Saturday, July 19, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his black Oldsmobile sedan off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard, just off Cape Cod. The Senator escaped a watery death, but a passenger in his car, twenty-eight-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not.

She was plucked to safety by the crew on a building site nearby after they spotted the plight of her and her husband. The workers used a crane to lower colleague Jason Oglesbee down to lift the woman free of the water and away to safety. While they were able to rescue the woman, her husband drowned after the boat overturned on the Des Moines River, Iowa. Joe Lowe, one of the construction workers, said: "I saw the boat drift down, and he started it up and he hit the bridge base. "Then he tried to wrap it up with...

Maitland 12-year-old Austin Grady jammed his foot beneath a boulder while sliding down a mountain stream and couldn't pull free. His father plunged into the river and planted himself beside the boy. For 30 minutes, Michael Grady kept his son alive, holding the child's head above the rushing white water. Volunteer firefighters pulled the boy to safety. They could not save the father. In saving his son, Grady had gotten his own foot trapped in the rocks. Exhausted from the rescue — fighting water that was pummeling him and suffering from hypothermia — he died in the stream. Grady, 52,...

Police in Texas say a woman has died in an apparent drowning at the same swimming pool where her two children drowned less than a year ago. Police discovered 35-year-old Van Ha Stocco lying near the pool at her home in Coppell Wednesday afternoon. She was pronounced died at Las Colinas Medical Center.

A 70-year-old man who dove into the Atlantic Ocean to save two children from drowning is being hailed a hero. Charles Schulze who lives part of the year in the Renaissance II condominium on Pompano Beach was walking with a companion on the 1200 block of South Ocean Boulevard on Saturday afternoon when he saw two boys struggling in a rip current...

POMPANO BEACH — A 70-year-old man drowned in the ocean Saturday while rescuing two young boys who got caught in a rip current and rough surf off Pompano Beach, officials said. Charles Schulze carried the two boys, ages 9 and 12, almost to shore in the 1200 block of South Ocean Boulevard. At that point, onlookers jumped into the water, brought the boys onto the sand and checked them over to make sure they were all right. The boys were fine. But when the beachgoers looked back at the water, they found Schulze floating face-down, Pompano Beach Fire Rescue spokeswoman...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Jan. 11) - The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153,000 in cash, a resident said Sunday, as the spokesman for another group of pirates promised to soon free a Ukrainian arms ship. Five pirates drowned Friday when their small boat capsized after they received a reported $3 million ransom for releasing a Saudi oil tanker. Local resident Omar Abdi Hassan said one of the bodies had been found on a beach near the coastal town of Haradhere and relatives were searching for the other four.

Five Sirius Star pirates drown in fight over $3million ransom By Lesley Yarranton, sundaymirror.co.uk 11/01/2009 Five of the Somali pirates who hijacked a Saudi supertanker drowned when their boat capsized as they fought over the $3million ransom. Their boat, one of a fleet used to abandon the Sirius Star after holding its 25 crew hostage for two months, overturned as they left with their share of the booty yesterday. An associate at the Somali port of Haradheere near where the tanker was held said: "The wind blew it over then sank it" Three survivors reached shore after swimming for hours,...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Five of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked oil-laden Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported $3 million ransom after their small boat capsized, a pirate and port town resident said Saturday. Pirate Daud Nure says the boat with eight people on board overturned in a storm after dozens of pirates left the Sirius Star following a two-month standoff in the Gulf of Aden that ended Friday.

New Jersey authorities say a woman drowned trying to retrieve her grandson's dog from a frozen pond.

Kleber Cordova seen in court in May. A Morristown man was indicted on murder charges today for allegedly drowning his wife in their bathtub in May as their 8-year-old daughter watched, authorities said.  Kleber Cordova, 29, is accused of submerging Eliana Torres' head for three minutes during an early morning argument. The 26-year-old spent several days on life support and died at Morristown Memorial Hospital.  Officers arrived at the couple's Western Avenue home at about 7:30 a.m. on May 9 after Cordova called 911, saying his wife needed medical help. They found Torres submerged face-up in the tub, with her...

Swimmers Warned About Dangerous Undertows, Rip Currents Four people have died and three vanished within two days at beaches in New York City and on Long Island, authorities said. At least three more have been rescued, they said. Officers were patrolling the waters off Coney Island Sunday in an attempt to search for a 10-year-old girl who went missing Saturday, CBS station WCBS-TV reported. Akira Johnson and her cousin Tyriek, 10, were playing in the ocean off West 23rd Street when they started to struggle in the water. People on shore yelled for lifeguards to help. "She's screaming, "There's kids...

"(CNN) -- Italian newspapers, an archbishop and civil liberties campaigners expressed shock and revulsion on Monday after photographs were published of sunbathers apparently enjoying a day at the beach just meters from where the bodies of two drowned Romany gypsy girls were laid out on the sand." "Two of them were pulled to safety but rescuers failed to reach the other two in time to save them. The Web site of the Archbishop of Naples said the girls were cousins named Violetta and Cristina, aged 12 and 13. Their bodies were eventually laid out on the sand under beach towels...

The father and brother of 25-year-old Santa Monica High School English teacher who apparently drowned in Panama are in the Central American country today to help recover the body. Joey Lutz was swimming off an island at Bocas del Toro, a chain of islands in the Caribbean along the Mosquito Coast, when he was overcome by waves and carried out to sea by a riptide about noon Thursday, according to his traveling companions. The 33-year-old's mother, Freda Lutz, says witnesses saw Lutz struggling, but his friends could not help him and Panamanian police did not look for him. Stuart Lutz...

Florida biologist saves drowning bear Last Updated: 12:14AM BST 30/06/2008 A biologist has dived into the Gulf of Mexico in Florida to rescue a stray black bear. Biologist Adam Warwick saves a 375-pound black bear from drowning in Gulf waters Warwick performed the daring rescue when the bear bolted for open Gulf waters after taking the tranquilizer dart The 375lb beast had been roaming a residential area at Alligator Point, near Tallahassee, when wildlife officers decided to trap it and move it away from houses. They shot the bear with a tranquiliser dart, spooking the animal, which raced toward the...

Charleston, SC (AHN) - A 10-year-old South Carolina boy died of "drowning" several hours after he was on dry ground, a coroner's report has found. Johnny Jackson died of "dry drowning," a form of asphyxiation that happens when a small amount of water gets into the lungs and damages tissue, causing the lungs to swell and fill up with water. The boy's mother, Cassandra Jackson, said Johnny went swimming in a local pool at Goose Greek on Sunday. Though the child didn't show any signs of respiratory distress, he "soiled himself," NBC News reported. He walked home with his mother...

A 10-year-old South Carolina boy died last weekend several hours after he swallowed water in a swimming pool. Goose Creek police say Johnny Jackson swallowed some water while swimming in a pool at his apartment complex around noon Sunday. Police say he later complained he was tired and took a nap. When someone checked on him, water was coming out of his nose and he was having trouble breathing.

3 swimmers dead in Ala. surf over holiday 5/25/2008, 2:47 p.m. CDT The Associated Press GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — The body of a 12-year-old New Orleans boy was recovered Sunday off Dauphin Island and a swimmer pulled from the Gulf of Mexico at Gulf Shores has died — the third death in the Alabama surf during the Memorial Day weekend. Dauphin Island police said Eric Stegall was swimming Saturday evening with his family when he was last seen about 100 yards from shore. His father was unable to reach him because of strong currents, Police Chief George Goodwin said...

A Marine Corps sergeant from Brentwood prevented a tragedy Sunday, when he pulled an 8-year-old girl from the bottom of an apartment complex swimming pool. Miguel Hinojosa is being heralded by police and fire officials for his quick actions, which they say saved the child's life. Around 2 p.m., dispatchers received a call that a girl who was not breathing had been pulled from the bottom of a pool at an apartment complex at 2400 Shady Willow Lane in Brentwood. East Contra Costa Fire District Battalion Chief Jeff Burris said the pool was crowded, and that he believes the girl's...

Several months ago the San Francisco Chronicle exposed California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring for hiring a shadowy Australian immigrant to be Chief Operating Officer of the Party. I also detailed the scandal in widely published articles. When they appeared, Nehring’s fellow radical ultra-conservatives screamed in pain and anguish. They accused me of lying about and smearing Nehring and his intimate circle. Nehring’s crony successor as San Diego Party Chairman (Tony Krvaric) a recent immigrant from Sweden isn’t even civil with me even as I offer the Party FREE television time on my station. The truth, of course, is that...

Old photo helps solve drowning mystery By STEPHANIE REITZ, Associated Press Writer Feb 2 2008 A treasured old photograph, a police investigator's long-shot appeal to the public and a retiree's sharp memory have combined to solve a 15-year-old drowning mystery. State police in Somers, N.Y., tried for years to identify a body found in the Titicus Reservoir on June 13, 1993, carrying 38 pounds of rocks in a backpack. The man left no clues to his name and matched no local missing-persons reports. The only lead was a black-and-white snapshot found on the body that showed a grandfatherly man holding...

Young son of radio host Rick Burgess host drowns in swimming pool Updated: Jan 20, 2008 07:11 PM BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The 2-year-old son of a popular Birmingham radio personality has drowned in a residential swimming pool in Shelby County. In a statement, Sheriff Chris Curry says the child, William Bronner Burgess, the youngest son of Rick and Bubba Show co-host Rick Burgess, was pronounced dead last night at Children's Hospital. Shelby County 911 received a report at 7:24 p.m. Saturday of a possible drowning, according to the sheriff. Deputies and North Shelby Fire and Emergency Medical personnel responded...

SANTA FE, N.M. -- A woman drowned when she apparently tried to retrieve a kitten from a 55-gallon rain barrel at her home southeast of Santa Fe. Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano said 48-year-old Deborah Hill was found by her husband Sunday afternoon after he returned home from running errands. Solano said the couple had dragged the plastic barrel inside their home because they wanted to thaw ice that had formed in the barrel. The barrel, which Solano said was tied to a door so it wouldn't tip, was about one-third full of water when the kitten fell in....

Say what you will about the looming catastrophe facing the world as the pace of global heating and polar melting accelerates. There is a silver lining. Look at a map of the US. The area that will by completely inundated by the rising ocean—and not in a century but in the lifetime of my two cats—are the American southeast, including the most populated area of Texas, almost all of Florida, most of Louisiana, and half of Alabama and Mississippi, as well as goodly portions of eastern Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. While the northeast will also see some coastal...

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - At least 24 people drowned when a boat carrying Central American migrants was wrecked off Mexico's Pacific coast on a route used to head to the United States, authorities said. (Advertisement) "On Friday morning, a boat carrying undocumented immigrants capsized in a zone known as the Dead Sea," an official with the public ministry of San Francisco Ixhuatan in Oaxaca state told AFP on Friday. "They were boats that usually pass the coast of Oaxaca with Central Americans," he added. "Local residents recovered 24 bodies." A television report said a Guatemalan woman survived from the vessel....

CASSELBERRY - In January, 1-year-old Joey Cosmillo wandered into the backyard and fell into the family pool. When his mother hauled him out, he wasn't breathing. Rescuers were able to bring him back to life, but he suffered severe brain damage and cannot walk, talk or even swallow. Now, his family faces another burden: One of the rescuers, Casselberry police Sgt. Andrea Eichhorn, is suing, alleging the family left a puddle of water on the floor that afternoon, causing her to slip and fall. The boy's grandparents, named in the suit, are mystified and angry. "The loss we've suffered, and...

Boy Drowned As Officers Watched Updated: 15:31, Friday September 21, 2007 The parents of a young boy who drowned in a pond have hit out at community support officers who stood by and witnessed the incident without acting. Tracy Lyon and Anthony Ganderton say they do not accept the officers' explanation that they were not trained to deal with the situation. The officers were sent to the beauty spot in Wigan, Greater Manchester after reports that two children had got into difficulty. Jordon Lyon, 10, had jumped into the water to help his eight-year-old stepsister Bethany. Two fishermen were able...

Yolanda Flores was sitting by the wave pool at Great America on Thursday when she asked her 8-year-old daughter Jasmine to tell her 4-year-old brother Carlos it was time to get out of the water. A moment later, she heard her Jasmine's screams. "He was just face down," Jasmine Flores told the Mercury News Friday night, sitting in the lap of her grandmother during an interview at her grandmother's San Jose home. "Other people were passing by him." Nobody seemed to notice Carlos was in trouble, Jasmine said. Wrapping the little girl in her arms, the girl's grandmother, Delia Mendoza,...

A Fort Worth man trying to recover his fishing pole beneath the waters of a creek at Lake Mineral Wells State Park on Sunday appeared disoriented when he came up for air, and then he disappeared below the surface, according to reports.Divers located the body of Michael Peterson, 48, about two hours later, said J.C. Travis, an assistant fire marshal for Parker County.Peterson and his niece's husband went fishing at about 6:45 a.m. Sunday at Mineral Wells State Park, Travis said. They were in a boat that traveled up Rock Creek which feeds the lake, said David Owens, the park's...

WATERFORD, Pennsylvania — Two toddlers wandered away from their home in northwestern Pennsylvania while their baby sitter slept and accidentally drowned in a nearby pond. The baby sitter told authorities she put the girls down for a nap Wednesday morning and that she also took a nap. When she woke up, 20-month-old Jenna Walker and 2-year-old Maggie Kovski were missing from the house, the baby sitter said. She found their bodies floating in a small, man-made fishing pond about 100 yards (90 meters) away from the home and frantically tried to help them. "She was performing CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), and...

(CBS) BOSTON New England Patriots defensive end Marquise Hill is missing in Louisiana after a jet skiing accident. His agent, Albert Elias, told CBS and a woman were on a jet ski in Lake Pontchartrain during the day Sunday when they hit a wave and fell off. Elias said Hill, 24, saved the woman's life by helping her float to a nearby pylon, but Hill drifted in another direction. Elias said Hill can swim, but the woman could not, so he tried helping her, before the water pulled him away. "As he's drifting away from her he was giving her...

National coverage of Marine Master Sgt. Michael Wert's death when trying to rescue two kids from drowning last week has left local officials trying to prepare for what may be an onslaught of visitors on Saturday.

Army Sgt. Kristi J. Artigue, Connecticut Army National Guard, applied her Army training to save a drowning man’s life Nov. 10. Army Sgt. Kristi J. Artigue Soldier Saves Man from Drowning By Sgt. Jordan E. Werme 130th PAD, Connecticut National Guard WEST HAVEN, Conn. , Dec. 5, 2006 -- When Sgt. Kristi J. Artigue joined the Connecticut Army National Guard the summer before her senior year of high school, it was a chance to broaden her experiences. “I’ve always been a risk taker,” said Artigue, 23, now a medic with the 141st Medical Company. On Nov. 10, Artigue called...

The rancorous debate over disgraced ex-Rep. Mark Foley took an unexpected turn when Rep. Chris Shays (R-Conn.) said indiscretions with a page were nothing compared to Sen. Ted Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) Chappaquiddick incident. “Foley is a pervert, but it isn’t fair to crucify the Speaker over this. He didn’t drive off a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day,” Shays said. “Dennis Hastert didn’t kill anybody.” In 1969, Kennedy drove off a bridge into a tidal pond, Kennedy escaped, but his companion, Mary Jo Kopechne, was drowned after being trapped...