drowning

Police in west Texas say a woman who drowned in a pool there in 1966 has been identified as a Salina, Kansas, native.

A 35-year-old Arlington man drowned in Lake Arlington Tuesday after riding a personal watercraft. Arlignton police said they responded to call for an unresponsive person at about 6:30 p.m. where someone had fallen into the water and drowned. Police said the victim’s friends pulled the man ashore and tried CPR but that they were not able to revive him...

The body of a 36-year-old man was recovered Sunday after he drowned in Lake Grapevine, according to the Texas Game Warden.

Wylie Police Department is investigating the drowning of a 2-year-old Wednesday afternoon.

A mother and grandfather who drowned in their backyard pool in New Jersey a week ago were trying to rescue an 8-year-old girl who had fallen in, police said.

An American man has died while proposing to his girlfriend underwater during a vacation in Tanzania, NBC News reported. Steven Weber drowned while asking Kenesha Antoine to marry him at an island resort off the east coast of Africa Thursday. Antoine shared the news of Weber’s death on her Facebook page, saying that he “never emerged from those depths.”

Prosecutors say a Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the drowning death of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old nephew.

Dallas Fire-Rescue and Texas Parks and Wildlife have found a man who went missing while riding a personal watercraft on Lake Ray Hubbard Friday.

Experts in Texas say rap songs, a children’s book and visits from first responders are great ways to help teach water safety to young swimmers.

Fort Worth area YMCAs participated Thursday in what organizers called the “world’s largest swimming lesson” aimed at preventing drownings.

The first great white shark to ever ping in the Long Island Sound had an inauspicious introduction to fame Monday, drawing so much traffic to a research group’s website that it stopped working — and still was having trouble the next day.

Researchers are tracking a great white shark in the Long Island Sound for the first time ever, according to the group OCEARCH.

Two Missouri officers saved the life of a 6-month-old girl whose father walked into their police station and said he had just drowned his daughter, authorities say. Greenwood police Chief Greg Hallgrimson and Cpl. Tom Calhoun rushed to a pond where the man said he had drowned his daughter Monday and pulled her out, performed CPR and warmed her up...

Officials are not releasing the identity of the man at this time.

The University of Texas at Arlington campus police are investigating a drowning that happened overnight.

A bachelor party contest to see who could stay underwater the longest ended in death when police say one competitor didn’t resurface.

Lana Wood, the sister of actress Natalie Wood whose drowning death in 1981 has fueled speculation for decades, has put out a plea for information about the case in a new podcast.

Signs of drowning can often be loud and attention-grabbing, but that’s not the case with shallow water blackouts, also known as the silent killer.

Kim Jacinto started “Bryan’s Cause” after her two-year-old grandson Bryan drowned in 2009.