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A month after her 17-month-old child drowned in a pond on her family’s property last month, a mother wants the water drained and the pond filled in to keep others from suffering the same fate. Clayton Smith was found late last month in a pond behind his family’s property in Interlachen, Florida after the toddler wandered off and into the pond. Mrs. Smith saw the toddler as he walked around the corner of the house and disappeared and ended her…

The body of Hallie Jenkins, a 4-year-old girl missing since her father’s car plunged into a north Houston drainage ditch that killed four other children, has been found, according to reports. The body was discovered along Greens Bayou near Beltway 8, and officials believe it to be the one missing soul from the accident, since the other children’s bodies had already been recovered. Houston’s Chanton B. Jenkins, Hallie’s father, was arrested and charged recently with four counts of intoxication manslaughter. He tested at…

Reports say a six-year-old died in southeast Houston Saturday, and then on Sunday a three-year-old boy drowned in Oak Ridge North in Montgomery County. Also on the same weekend, a 13-year-old was pulled from a southwest Houston pool and was fighting for her life in the hospital. The six-year-old was at his grandmother’s home when he was found unresponsive in the water, reports say. He was taken to the hospital, but died shortly afterward. The three-year-old crawled out of a…

  A young surfer was killed last month after a shark attack off Surf Beach, approximately  120 miles northwest of Los Angeles, reports say.   Lucas Ransom McKain, 19, a chemistry student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, was approximately a hundred yards from shore when the shark attacked him, biting through the surfboard and severing his left leg. The wound was mortal and he died shortly afterward, according to reports.   Risking another attack, a friend swam…

Austin Police Officers responded to a crash in the 10800 block of Metric Blvd late last month involving a motorcycle that was traveling south bound on Metric Boulevard. The crash occurred when a Capital Metro bus came to a stop in the right lane and other vehicles stopped behind it. The motorcycle struck the back of a stopped flatbed truck. The driver of the motorcycle, who was wearing a helmet, was transported to University Medical Center-Brackenridge with critical injuries by…