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  A man drowned late last year in Lake Travis while parting on the water on what’s referred to as a “party barge.”   The accident, which occurred in the water off of Hi Line Drive in Hudson Bend near Carlos and Charlie’s, happened when the victim, 32-year-old Paul Mathis, jumped into the lake to cool off. Although he was wearing a personal flotation device when he entered the water, he did not appear on the surface after going in….

Arapahoe County, Colorado authorities were continuing their investigation in the drowning death of a 12-year-old boy who succumbed at the Southglenn Country Club, reports say. Sheriff Department officials reportedly said that the boy died recently after attending a private birthday party when he was found unconscious at the bottom of the pool by another child. Although he was pulled from the pool by another child after being found underwater in the shallow end and two lifeguards tried to resuscitate him,…

  A Houston man was charged last year in the deaths of five children in his care who drowned after the car they in which they were riding plunged into a rain-swollen culvert.   Chanton Jenkins, 33, was accused of driving drunk and using his cell phone when he lost control of his car, which was filled with seven passengers, reports say.   Five children, including three of Jenkins’ kids, died in the crash. Jenkins, his brother and a 10-year-old…

  The family of Brian Greenhouse, the man who fell from a Houston Livestock and Rodeo roller coaster last week, is searching for answers as the investigation into his death continues, reports say.   Reports say that witnesses state the victim was “limp in the air” as he fell the 30 feet to his death Sunday at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. But so far, Houston police can’t rule out the ride itself, reports say.   Attorneys for the…

Richard Steinecke II, 21, of New Caney, who was injured last Friday morning by steel beams which had collapsed in a high school auditorium under construction has died, reports say. The worker was evidently killed as a result of both the fall from about 50 feet and from being crushed by the steel beams that fell on him.   Emergency crews had been called to the scene of the high school where new construction had begun on an auditorium. Steinecke…