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U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued a man from drowning on a Monday morning last month, reports say. In an attempt to avoid capture by agents after he had made illegal entry in the United States, the man began swimming back across the Rio Grande River where Border Patrol agents are not allowed to pursue him. But he began to struggle and requested assistance about the midpoint of the river. US Border Patrol Agents from the McAllen Outpost were patrolling the…

Two-year-old Cody Guest was moments away from drowning at Rokewood Swimming Lagoon when his friend Gracie Fuchshofer saw him flailing as if he were in trouble. Gracie made her way to him and pushed the toddler, who was by then face down in the water and motionless, to the shore and called lifeguards. At the same time, Gracie’s mother saw her daughter pushing the lifeless body and ran to the shore to pull the two-year-old out. Another bystander cleared his…

A man whose body was found partially submerged in the Schuylkill River early this month has been identified, reports say, as Alan Ruggles, 54, of Reading, PA. The man’s body was found in the river, between the Berks County Fire Training Center and the Thun Trail, in Cumru Township, but authorities had no idea how he had died or who he was. And although the coroner could apparently not determine when he died or how long he was in the…

The family of Justin Raddie, 28, of Gambrills, MD, believes the man was trying to help an animal that wandered onto thin ice when he fell into the frigid, 6-foot-deep waterway and drown, according to reports. His mother, Madonna Brennan, of Gambrills, said Raddie constantly rescued wild animals from being trapped or entangled since he was a young boy. Raddie’s body was discovered after holes in the ice were spotted by a neighbor at Riverton Place and Stepneys Lane around…

Reports say the YES Academy is being sued by the mother of a son who drowned while attending a summer program. Carnez Boone, a 14-year-old Collingdale, PA boy who had been sent to a residential treatment program in western Pennsylvania, drowned in Stoneboro last summer after jumping off the high dive. Carnez’s mother, Okita Allen, reportedly claims that school counselors pressured Carnez to jump off the high dive during a class trip with the YES Academy, a yearlong residential program…