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What was supposed to be a weekend marking the unofficial start of summer became a tragedy with yet another Lake Lanier Margaritaville drowning death. The latest Lake Lanier Margaritaville drowning has left some locals believing the human-constructed body of water is cursed. Shockingly, over 200 people have died since 1994 in swimming and boating accidents at Lake Lanier. The latest Lake Lanier Margaritaville drowning victim is a 20-year-old man who lost his life while swimming. He has been identified but…

A member of Mission High School’s 2010 Academic Athletic Association championship boys’ basketball team, Stafone Jackson, 20, died on a camping trip of an apparent drowning earlier this month. Reports say that a swim with his friends was more difficult than it appeared and about halfway back, Jackson began yelling for help and quickly sank before his friends could get to him. Jackson, who was entering his second year at UC Riverside, was at the Union Valley Reservoir in North…

Search teams recently found the body of a man who had been feared drowned in Dalewood Lake, near Meridian, Miss. Charles “Chip” Fleming, 42, of Kemper County, disappeared underwater early in the week while swimming with friends who were aboard a pontoon boat. Fleming was not wearing a life jacket. His body was recovered the following evening after a search that had to be suspended at times because of stormy weather. The Doan Law Firm P.C. has extensive experience in…

The aunt of a New Jersey toddler has been charged after the boy drowned in a New Jersey lake earlier this month, reports say. Reports say Felicia Tucker, 26, of Monroe Township, has been charged with second-degree endangering of a child in the death of her nephew, who was two-and-a-half when he died. Reports say Tucker allegedly called police after finding the front door of her home open and the boy missing. The boy, who reports say was autistic, was…

35-year-old Marlowe Young apparently tried to swim to shore from a pontoon boat he and three friends had rented from a nearby marina recently when he drowned. He was not wearing a life jacket. Young was the fourth person to drown in the lake this summer, reports say. Reports say his friends tried unsuccessfully to rescue but he dropped below the surface of the water. Divers found Young’s body the next day a short distance from where he was last…