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Hockey broadcaster Ron MacLean helped save a man from drowning in the Delaware River last month. The incident started when a woman raced into a hotel restaurant where MacLean was having lunch, shouting for help, Explaining frantically to the broadcaster that a person was drowning, MacLean leapt from his seat, took a velvet rope that separated diners in the restaurant and ran down to the water. Somebody else was already in the water helping the man out. Reportedly, the drowning…

Emergency crews reportedly say a young man was visiting friends fishing on Fountain Hill Lake in Lenoir County, NC when he jumped into the water and tried to swim to a raft, but didn’t make it back to land. Several boats searched for the youth, and dive teams and a number of law enforcement agencies combed both water and land for the teen. Fountain Hill Lake is reported to be 30 feet deep in some spots, making rescue — or recovery — more difficult. Fearing…

Twenty-seven-year-old Erica Green was allegedly drowned in a bathtub Tuesday by a Delaware man, who then set her home on fire to cover her murder. Green, who had been living with her mother in Elkins along with apparent boarders Patrick Devonshire and Robert Hurt, was ultimately identified through tattoos, reports say Elkton Police Department concluded. Green’s autopsy shows asphyxiation by drowning as the cause of death. Reports also say that Jeffery Cordell, 25, of Middletown, has confessed to drowning Green…

Muskegon County, Michigan officials removed the siblings of two children who drowned last month from the custody of their parents, reports say. Two children, Ya’Mesha Mitchell and Torrey Day, slipped into a half filled pool at a vacant home while parents were at the location, but not taking care of the youngsters, reports say. The two children couldn’t swim and died. The children were from two different families, and at least one parent from each family was present when the drownings occurred….

A Glendale, Arizona family and students at a local high school are grieving the loss of 16-year-old Jesus “Jesse” Prado, who drowned at the school pool last month.