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Water at some house in California’s San Gabriel Valley was tainted by the E. coli Bacteria earlier this month, reports say, and some 200 households were told to boil their tap water. Although there were no reported cases of illness, the citizens of the affected area waited for officials to sterilize water pipes. Each affected home reportedly received three cases of bottled water from city officials, reports say. The source of contamination is unknown, but either animal or human feces…

Waimanalo Bay Medical Examiners have identified a 35-year-old man who died in Saturday in Waimanalo Bay after struggling. The man, identified as Richard Matapua, of Waialua, drowned while snorkeling with his family. An autopsy was planned to determine Matapua’s cause of death, but reports say he was snorkeling early last month and became unresponsive. He was fished out of the water, taken to a nearby hospital and did not recover, reports said. Sifting through different information is always difficult, and…

Gainesville police have arrested two people in the death of a University of Florida cheerleader, who was killed and then burned to conceal evidence. The suspects, reportedly named as Antonio D. Drayton, 24, and Cassandra M. Kimbrough, 42,  were both charged. Drayton was charged with first-degree murder and Kimbrough was charged as an accessory. The victim, Saleha Huuda, 21, was reportedly the girlfriend of one and the rival of the other. The two suspects were also was charged with grand…

Canadian consumers have been warned earlier this month to avoid Nature’s Reward brand fresh cilantro over the potential that it may be contaminated with Salmonella, reports say. The recall was issued by Fresh Taste Produce Ltd., the importer of the recalled herb. The Nature’s Reward brand fresh cilantro was produced in the United States, and was sold in bunches held together with a twist tie that bears no brand name, but does have the following numbers: PLU 4889 and UPC…

Police officers have been praised for their efforts to save a man from drowning in a treacherous stretch of the River Trent after a bystander witnessed a man enter the water near in the early hours one Sunday morning and immediately became pulled downstream. The police, who arrived within three minutes of the emergency call, first threw a rope to the struggling man, who was about 200ft away and being pulled away by strong currents. But the man was unable…