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…
Reports say a Holland America Line passenger from the US was killed when she was snorkeling at Goff’s Caye in Belize and got caught in the boat’s propeller. The incident caused her to be cut quite badly. In addition, her head was slammed against the vessel. She received, among other injuries, a large cut to her right leg and two smaller wounds to the right side of the face. Apparently, she and her husband were aboard a 65 foot catamaran,…
Reports say the woman who ran a west Houston day care that caught fire late last month and killed four children fled to Nigeria before she was charged. The daycare operator, Jessica Tata, 22, reportedly flew to her home in Nigeria on Saturday late last month before she was ever charged with the deaths of the four children in her care. An arrest warrant was issued on the last day of February for one count of reckless bodily…
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…
A Denton day care is being checked by Child Protective Services after the death of a four-month-old girl died earlier this month. The daycare, Too Kool for School, discovered four-month-old Sophia Worsham limp and unresponsive recently during school hours. Employees called 911, but the child succumb and was pronounced dead. Reports say the baby may have been medicated by the parents, but that fact, nor if it could have contributed to her death were only matters of speculation. Denton…