Woman Dies in Drowning at Lake Near Danvers
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By Michele Steinbacher, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Jun. 15--DANVERS -- A Central Illinois woman is dead after an apparent drowning at Spin Lake outside Danvers. Another woman was treated for heat exhaustion after trying to help the victim and rescuers.
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Public health officials are investigating why a 38-year-old woman died two weeks after undergoing gastric bypass surgery at Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River. The hospital has stopped offering the surgery during the state probe and an internal review.
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By Julie Edgar, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 21--Two Oakland County women were killed early Wednesday after a police chase ended with them crashing into a tree at Bridge Lake and Rattalee Lake roads in Springfield Township.
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About 1,500 dead birds that have washed up on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake may have been killed by avian cholera, an expert said. Dead grebes, ducks and gulls were being sent to the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., for examination.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 4 -- A woman who had chased her rolling minivan down a steep hill and jumped in before it sank into a pond died Wednesday along with two children, authorities said. A third child was in critical condition.
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By Josh Hoke, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Jun. 22--One person nearly drowned this morning in the Intracoastal Waterway but was rescued and taken to the hospital.
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CHALMETTE, Louisiana  - The owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home where 35 people drowned in one of the worst tragedies of Hurricane Katrina pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to multiple charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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FERNLEY, Nev. -- Hundreds of homes sat in as much as 8 feet of water Sunday following a canal rupture as freezing weather spread sheets of ice over yards and streets, hindering efforts to get the water to drain away.
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Crown Point, La. -- A man and a woman from California died after an airboat carrying 16 tourists overturned in a Louisiana swamp, authorities said Sunday.
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By Sandra M. Klepach, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 15--The body of a full-term baby girl was found Thursday afternoon floating in the spillway of a park lagoon in Canton, police said.
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The death of Patriots defensive lineman Marquise Hill was determined yesterday to be an accidental drowning.
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A man suffered a fatal heart attack while refueling a ferry, resulting in a spill that dumped nearly 2,000 gallons of fuel into Hyannis Harbor on Saturday morning, a Coast Guard official said.
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A 69-year-old woman who was accidentally injected with a toxic cleaning fluid as she was prepared for surgery at a Seattle area medical center has died as a result, hospital officials said on Wednesday.
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A Seattle-area woman died early yesterday, two weeks after she was accidentally injected with a toxic cleansing solution during a medical procedure at Seattle&#39;s Virginia Mason Hospital.
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Woman dies in crash after reports of rocks and eggs being thrown at cars from overpass
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By Stanley B. Chambers Jr., The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 7--DURHAM -- A Durham teenager drowned Wednesday in Falls Lake after jumping into the water to retrieve his cell phone -- the second Triangle teen to drown within 24 hours.
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By Kirsten Valle, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 10--Thousands of fish have died in Mecklenburg County ponds this  month after a spell of hot and dry weather, county officials said.