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Fifteen-year-old Ron Edmonds, of Franklin, MN  was remembered at a vigil Sunday, the day after he drowned in a private lake in a Franklin neighborhood. The popular middle school student was reportedly swimming with friends when he drowned. Edmonds mother, Lisa Allen, publicly let the two friends Ron was swimming with that she doesn’t blame them for his death, and they shouldn’t blame themselves. She said there was nothing else they could do to save him. Family members say they…

Mill Spring, NC father and son drowned in a North Carolina lake after they jumped in to try and save a young child in their care from  drowning last month. Reports say 48-year-old William Butch Jackson and 21-year-old William Butch Jackson Jr. were fishing from their small boat on Lake Adger when the elder Jackson’s young daughter fell in the water. Reports say the father and his adult son jumped in to rescue the girl, but the pair never surfaced….

Electrical shock is being investigated as a factor in the  drowning of a Bridgeport teenager at Stonewall Jackson Lake, West Virginia, reports say. Michael Cunningham, 15, was pulled from Stonewall Lake last month after he and three other youths were swimming behind a boat docked at the lake’s marina. The victim had reportedly left the water and was standing on the back of the boat watching the other two swim, reports say. The other two swimmers approached the ladder, with…

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…