Boating Season Death Toll Hits 11: Lake of the Ozarks Had No Labor Day Fatalities, but 2006 Deaths Were More Than in 2005.
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By Kevin Murphy, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 11--The prime boating season at Lake of the Ozarks ended rather safely over Labor Day weekend, with no fatalities, but the same cannot be said for the year overall.
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By Anne Jungen, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  May 26--DRESBACH, Minn. -- Authorities hope the heavy boat traffic on the Mississippi River during the holiday weekend will help find the last missing child from a May 12 boat accident that killed three others.  "We need your help.
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As of Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006, at least 2,931 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,356 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
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By Art Campos, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--The warm weather has arrived, and so has the potential for accidents in lakes, rivers and swimming pools.
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By TONY SPILDE  By TONY SPILDE  With Lake Sakakawea just a tenth of a foot from dropping to a red- flag low, Sen. Byron Dorgan is concerned that some towns downstream along the Missouri River could run out of water this summer.
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Sept. 23, 2004 -- Drinking to excess causes more than 75,000 deaths in the US each year, resulting in nearly 2.3 million years of potential life lost among Americans, according to a new CDC report.
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Death tolls in Sri Lanka and India continue to rise, with an estimated 11,000 dead in the island state, and 6,000 dead in India. Of those deaths, 3,000 are thought to have occurred in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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NEW YORK  - People living along the southern Atlantic coast of the US, as well as those residing along the Mississippi River, die at a faster rate than the national average, while death rates are below the norm in the upper Great Plains, a new study shows.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 24--Minnesota fisheries officials have a sturgeon mystery on their hands.   Several lake sturgeon have turned up dead in the St.
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A Saturday story on the death of a hiker in Zion National Park gave an incorrect time-frame for the previous accidental hiker deaths on the Angels Landing Trail. Park spokesman David Eaker said six people have died since 1987.  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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By Lew Freedman, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 17--EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. -- It's a terrible thing when you have a one-track mind, as so many fishermen do. Here I was in northwest Arkansas and all I could think about was hybrid stripers on Beaver Lake.
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As of Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006, at least 2,621 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,079 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
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PAGE, Ariz. -- A Colorado woman is missing and presumed dead after a boating accident Friday on Lake Powell in the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area.
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The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne was at 620, with some 500 of them in Gonaives, but officials said they expected to find more dead.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haiti's death toll from  last month's devastating flooding rose to more than 3,000 on  Tuesday, according to government officials who released what  they believe is the final death tally.
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At a time when restaurants typically put away their patio furniture, sweaters replace T-shirts and sailboats are plucked from the water, Midwesterners are out enjoying activities usually reserved for July and August &#151; not weeks past Labor Day. Summer is here. Finally.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne was at 620, with some 500 of them in Gonaives, but officials said on Tuesday they expected to find more dead.    Blood swirled in knee-deep floodwaters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue...