***Learn about swimming safety above.*** PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WJW) – Authorities are cautioning beachgoers after five people drowned within four days at a popular tourist destination in northwest Florida. According to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to the beach on the west end of Panama City Beach for a distressed swimmer […]
An unhinged Queens dad who tried to drown his two young children at a Connecticut beach has been arrested, while the toddlers remain hospitalized and fighting for their lives, police said. A police officer patrolling near a West Haven, Conn. beach heard screams coming from the water around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, police said. The officer […]
A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racial statements, according to police. The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations identified the family as Muslim and Palestinian and called on state […]
Three men drowned while swimming at a Florida beach on Friday after getting caught in a rip current, adding to a deadly week of swimming incidents along the East Coast and in the South. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office identified the three men on Saturday as 24-year-old Harold Denzel Hunter, 25-year-old Jemonda Ray and 24-year-old […]
A Queens father was arrested Saturday morning after he was caught trying to drown his two children, both under the age of 3, at a beach in West Haven, Conn., police said. An officer on patrol near Ocean and Dawson avenues spotted an SUV parked on the beach around 2:30 a.m., the West Haven Police […]
A New York man is in custody after police allege he deliberately tried to drown his two children on a Connecticut beach, officials said. Romney Desronvil, 42, of Queens, New York, has been arrested and is in West Haven Police custody facing pending charges. Police said the incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning in […]
A North Carolina father’s quick actions and knowledge of CPR saved his 2-year-old daughter’s life after she almost drowned in the family’s pool over Memorial Day weekend. The Gastonia Police Department said that one family’s Memorial Day cookout took a turn for the worse after the family’s two-year-old daughter, named Mila, fell into the pool […]
Political groups on the right and left are using fake news websites designed to look like reliable sources of information to fill the void left by the demise of local newspapers, raising fears of the impact that they might have during America’s bitterly fought 2024 election. Some media experts are concerned that the so-called pink […]
Jeremy Sweet was sentenced to prison for being under the influence of meth when he drove his truck into a river, leading to his daughter’s death GoFundMe, FOX59 News/YouTube Emma Sweet An Indiana man was sentenced to four decades in prison after pleading guilty to his role in the November 2021 drowning death of his […]
Dozens of monkeys in heatwave-hit India desperate for water have drowned in a well, a forest official said Tuesday, in a state where lakes have turned to dust. Swaths of northern India have been gripped by a heatwave since last month, with temperatures soaring over 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). Last week, an Indian […]
Yates, who signed a friend’s high school yearbook as “the struggling butterfly,” suffered from postpartum psychosis when she killed her children in 2001 Courtesy of Yates Family/Getty Andrea Yates and her family On June 20, 2001, police responded to a 911 call from the home of Andrea Yates in the Houston suburb of Clear Lake, […]
PRINCETON, WV (WVNS) — The National Weather Service saying goes, “Turn around, don’t drown.” When flash flooding and high water occur it’s a very good saying to follow. With areas of Mercer County and Summers County experiencing high waters Saturday evening, the saying became a way to keep citizens safe in real time. Eric Six, […]