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  A man drowned late last year in Lake Travis while parting on the water on what’s referred to as a “party barge.”   The accident, which occurred in the water off of Hi Line Drive in Hudson Bend near Carlos and Charlie’s, happened when the victim, 32-year-old Paul Mathis, jumped into the lake to cool off. Although he was wearing a personal flotation device when he entered the water, he did not appear on the surface after going in….

  The family of Brian Greenhouse, the man who fell from a Houston Livestock and Rodeo roller coaster last week, is searching for answers as the investigation into his death continues, reports say.   Reports say that witnesses state the victim was “limp in the air” as he fell the 30 feet to his death Sunday at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. But so far, Houston police can’t rule out the ride itself, reports say.   Attorneys for the…

  A Houston man was charged last year in the deaths of five children in his care who drowned after the car they in which they were riding plunged into a rain-swollen culvert.   Chanton Jenkins, 33, was accused of driving drunk and using his cell phone when he lost control of his car, which was filled with seven passengers, reports say.   Five children, including three of Jenkins’ kids, died in the crash. Jenkins, his brother and a 10-year-old…

A recent investigation into the drowning of a boy at a South Austin gym has been ruled accidental, reports say.   The family of a four-year-old Austin boy who died after swimming at the outdoor pool at LifeTime Fitness was told recently that the death of the child, Colin Holst, was the result of an accident.   Holst died one day after a lifeguard pulled him unconscious from the outdoor pool, even as other staff members performed CPR on the…

Richard Steinecke II, 21, of New Caney, who was injured last Friday morning by steel beams which had collapsed in a high school auditorium under construction has died, reports say. The worker was evidently killed as a result of both the fall from about 50 feet and from being crushed by the steel beams that fell on him.   Emergency crews had been called to the scene of the high school where new construction had begun on an auditorium. Steinecke…