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Mill Spring, NC father and son drowned in a North Carolina lake after they jumped in to try and save a young child in their care from  drowning last month. Reports say 48-year-old William Butch Jackson and 21-year-old William Butch Jackson Jr. were fishing from their small boat on Lake Adger when the elder Jackson’s young daughter fell in the water. Reports say the father and his adult son jumped in to rescue the girl, but the pair never surfaced….

A 13-year-old Crown Point student at St. Mary’s Catholic Community School died in what appeared to be an accidental  drowning last month at Hermit Lake, reports conclude. Sean Woods, who lived in Merrillville, Indiana, was attending a friend’s party when he somehow slipped below the water and drowned. Emergency services were called, but were reportedly unable to resuscitate the youth. A coroner’s team was then called to the pool in the unincorporated Center Township at 11 p.m. Woods’ death was…

A train accident on May 31 took the life of 22-year-old SBBC student Stanford Heath Allison Jr. According to reports, Allison was struck and killed by an Amtrak passenger train as it made its way into the station. Reportedly, he had walked around the dropped traffic control arms and onto the tracks on a busy intersection. Allison died at the scene. Allison is survived by his parents and his brother and sister There have apparently been several people recently killed…

An Amtrak train hit and killed a teenager as she was on her way to school, after which service was suspended for some time in the Baltimore area as an investigation searched for caused of the accident. The incident delayed trains all along the US Northeast corridor. The victim has been reportedly identified as 14-year-old Ann Marie Stickle of Middle River. Reports say she had been walking along the tracks with a friend when she was hit from behind. The…

Electrical shock is being investigated as a factor in the  drowning of a Bridgeport teenager at Stonewall Jackson Lake, West Virginia, reports say. Michael Cunningham, 15, was pulled from Stonewall Lake last month after he and three other youths were swimming behind a boat docked at the lake’s marina. The victim had reportedly left the water and was standing on the back of the boat watching the other two swim, reports say. The other two swimmers approached the ladder, with…