WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Rescue officials were searching Monday for the body of Jan Litynski, a Polish communist-era dissident and democracy-era politician who drowned in a river while trying to save...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A teenager's drowning death last year is prompting lawmakers in Iowa to consider making it a crime to fail to call emergency responders to report when someone appears to be...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The City of Sioux Falls has agreed to pay $500,000 to the mother of the 5-year-old girl who drowned in the river at Falls Park three years ago.

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Toole County officials have released the names of the two Missoula County men who died during a fishing trip along the Marias River last week.

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A 20-year-old Kansas man died after falling 40 feet down an embankment into a creek in Barton County, authorities said.

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Sheriff's officials have identified the boy who drowned in an Eagan lake.

Dakota County Sheriff Tim Leslie says 13-year-old Jeylon Elijah Holloway was walking his dog...

READING, Pa. (AP) — Preliminary findings indicate that a man who fled police after a shoplifting report and went into a nearby flooded quarry died of drowning and hypothermia, the coroner's office...

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Rescue crews are trying to save a baby dolphin that was discovered struggling in shallow water at a Mississippi beach.

STATELINE, Nev. (AP) — A California man who almost drowned at a Lake Tahoe resort on Monday night has been discharged from the hospital, local emergency management officials said.

CAIRO (AP) — A boat carrying migrants bound for Europe capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, drowning at least 43 people, the U.N. migration agency said Wednesday.

HONOLULU (AP) — A rise in drowning deaths or near drownings during Hawaii snorkeling excursions has been linked to a pulmonary condition that was not previously associated with...

HOPEWELL, Va. (AP) — Police and firefighters in Virginia have resuscitated a child following an incident that authorities say may have been an attempted drowning in the Appomattox River....

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An environmental group has told the National Marine Fisheries Service that it's going to court over reductions in plans to keep endangered and threatened sea turtles from...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government said Wednesday it recovered 53 bodies of migrants from several countries in 2020 who drowned or died of other causes in Mexico.

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) — Sheriff's officials say a snowmobiler's body has been recovered from Lake Irvine near Devils Lake.

The man broke through the ice Tuesday night, according to Ramsey...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A 22-year-old midshipman died in a hotel pool drowning accident while he was on leave from the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland, according to Navy officials.

BEIJING (AP) — A British diplomat is being praised for saving a drowning woman in southwestern China.

Stephen Ellison jumped into a stream to rescue the woman after she fell into the water...

TIPPECANOE, Ohio (AP) — The bodies of two missing hunters from Michigan have been recovered from an Ohio lake a day after they were reported missing, authorities said.

LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman has died after driving a car into a lake, authorities said.

The car went into Lake Osborne near Lake Worth Beach early Wednesday morning,...

FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire State Police are investigating a drowning at Echo Lake in Franconia on Saturday.

Police received a report at about 10 a.m. of a man who had fallen out of...

DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Adam L. Johnson, 29, of Anacortes died Saturday while hiking Vesper Peak in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Drownings in Lake Michigan have reached record levels with at least 53 people dead so far this year, according to a water safety advocacy group.

LAKE TAHOE, Nev. (AP) — The body of a man who apparently drowned last month has been recovered from 1,565-foot deep water in Lake Tahoe, according to authorities.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Investigators said Friday that no charges will be filed in the June drowning death of a 21-year-old woman whose friends and family have pushed for more information about the...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas panel has determined that the state is not responsible for the drowning deaths of a woman and her son, saying there was not a state official directly...

Authorities say they have found the body of a man who drowned in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A news release from the park says 25-year-old Yogesh Patel of Oak Forest, Illinois was...

CAIRO (AP) — U.N.: At least 24 migrants drowned or missing and presumed dead after boat capsizes in the Mediterranean near Libya.

POTOMAC, Md. (AP) — A 17-year-old boy tried to swim across the Potomac River from Virginia to Maryland Sunday night and almost drowned until two off-duty lifeguards saved his life, authorities...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Authorities have not yet determined what caused the death of a young boy whose body was found this week in the swimming pool at a Toledo apartment complex, several days after...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A Wisconsin man drowned Sunday while trying to rescue two women who were struggling in a Crawford County lake, authorities said.

HAYS, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have identified a college student from South Carolina as the victim of a drowning earlier this week at a Kansas lake.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A former Pondera County sheriff and Conrad police chief drowned while fishing on the Missouri River, Cascade County Sheriff Jesse Slaughter said.

HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old boy who drowned in Lake Michigan pleaded guilty Thursday to child neglect.

Iain Rowe drowned at Holland State Park on June 6, a day of high...

COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. (AP) — A coroner has identified a father and son as two of the three men who died after becoming trapped in a manhole while working on a sewer project in northeastern Indiana’s...

FARMINGTON, Mo. (AP) — A Farmington man has drowned in southeastern Missouri's Hager Lake, according to police there.

Authorities first learned of the drowning Tuesday morning when a person...

BLACK DIAMOND, Wash. (AP) — King County sheriff’s detectives were investigating a drowning near the Green River Gorge State Park on Tuesday evening.

MORETOWN, Vt. (AP) — A 52-year-old man died in an apparent drowning in the Winooski River in Moretown, state police said.

Police were called at about 2:45 p.m. Sunday to a location on U.S....

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities have identified a woman who drowned last month in a residential pool in St. Louis Park.

Hannah J. Salo, 27, of Brooklyn Center, drowned on July 4 in a pool at...

Crews on Saturday recovered the body of a Detroit firefighter who vanished into the Detroit River while helping save some girls from drowning a day earlier, authorities said.

WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — A 5-year-old boy has died of an apparent drowning in the Waterbury Reservoir, Vermont State Police said.

Police received a call shortly after 2 p.m. Thursday for help...

LAVA HOT SPRINGS, Idaho (AP) — Authorities in eastern Idaho say a teen drowned in the Portneuf River near Lava Hot Springs on Sunday afternoon.

SEATTLE (AP) — Two people are presumed drowned in separate incidents Sunday after both were reported missing at Lake Washington, authorities said.

Authorities on Sunday continued to search for a man feared to have drowned in Little Detroit Lake in Minnesota.

The Becker County Sheriff's office and other emergency workers responded to a...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — One person died and two others were hospitalized on Saturday night after they became distressed while swimming in Lake Michigan near Milwaukee's McKinley Beach.

BELTON, Texas (AP) — U.S. Army officials said Tuesday that a Fort Hood soldier drowned at the same lake near the Texas base where another soldier's body was found last month.

BOSCAWEN, N.H. (AP) — A 15-year-old swimmer was the victim in an apparent drowning on the Merrimack River, the New Hampshire Marine Patrol said Sunday.