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Reports from England say Red Bull is a possible contributor to the death of a student in a nightclub last year. The September 2008 death of Chloe Leach revealed that she drank four cans of the drink along with several VKs – a vodka-based drink that also contains caffeine – before she collapsed around 3 a.m. on a dance floor in Hull, Great Britain. The young 21-year-old woman had been diagnosed with epilepsy and was also believed to suffer from…

A Houston criminal defense attorney is finally in court, three years after a Houston woman mysteriously drowned in her bathtub.   The woman, 32-year-old Tara Sganga, was found dead in her bathtub. At the time, her boyfriend, A criminal defense attorney with a history of drug use, stands trial on charges that he gave her heroin before she died, reports said.   Harris County prosecutors opened their case against Shawn Roland Roberts late last summer, saying he injected her with…

  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….

Arapahoe County, Colorado authorities were continuing their investigation in the drowning death of a 12-year-old boy who succumbed at the Southglenn Country Club, reports say. Sheriff Department officials reportedly said that the boy died recently after attending a private birthday party when he was found unconscious at the bottom of the pool by another child. Although he was pulled from the pool by another child after being found underwater in the shallow end and two lifeguards tried to resuscitate him,…

  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…