A 14-year-old boy has died after drowning in the Bay at Crissy Field despite an attempt by the San Francisco Fire Department and the Coast Guard to save him Monday. “We are sad to report, despite extensive efforts, that the 14yo male victim has succumbed to his drowning. Our heartfelt condolences and support go out […]
The California man killed by a shark in Hawaii over the weekend was a frequent visitor to the islands and an avid scuba diver who had recently retired, a friend said. A shark attacked 65-year-old Thomas Smiley while he was swimming Saturday in the Ka’anapali Beach Park area on Maui, police said. A witness said […]
A homeless woman who attempted to cross a storm channel in Moreno Valley after a thunderstorm swelled the spillway was swept away Wednesday, floating downstream for nearly a mile before she was rescued. The victim was reported in chest-high waters in the Perris Valley Channel, near the intersection of Alessandro Boulevard and Heacock Street, about […]
A Carnival cruise ship helped the U.S. Coast Guard rescue almost two dozen Cubans who had been adrift at sea for a week in the Gulf of Mexico, authorities said Monday. After a Coast Guard aircrew spotted the stranded Cubans at about 8:40 a.m. Sunday about 130 miles off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, it radioed for […]
An Indonesian teenager who survived 49 days adrift at sea after the wooden fish trap he was employed to mind slipped its moorings says he ran out of food within a week and survived on fish and seawater he strained through his clothing. Aldi Novel Adilang told The Associated Press on Monday that he turned […]
Cathedral City, CA When Kris Hernandez and her three-year-old son John went out to spend the day at the Children’s Discovery Museum they never imagined they’d get caught in a sudden flash flood on their way home. The raging river flooded their car quickly. "Then the water comes gushing and then it went through my […]
