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Reports say the YES Academy is being sued by the mother of a son who drowned while attending a summer program. Carnez Boone, a 14-year-old Collingdale, PA boy who had been sent to a residential treatment program in western Pennsylvania, drowned in Stoneboro last summer after jumping off the high dive. Carnez’s mother, Okita Allen, reportedly claims that school counselors pressured Carnez to jump off the high dive during a class trip with the YES Academy, a yearlong residential program…

The cause of Leslie Lavern Matthias, 61, was accidental drowning, according to reports from the autopsy performed by the state medical examiner. Police were originally concerned that the death might have been as the result of foul play, reports say. The incident occurred when, early this month, officers from the Readlyn Police Department stopped to make a regular check at Matthias’ home. Matthias was known to the police as an easygoing resident who sometimes required assistance in his daily life…

Reports say a cruise passenger from the Sea Princess, a Princess Cruises liner, died in Tortola, British Virgin Islands earlier this year. The man was reportedly pulled out of the sea in the area of Cane Garden Bay beach. The man, who was reportedly in his 50´s, was unconscious when discovered. Emergency workers resuscitated him, but he was mostly not breathing on his own. He also evidently had a weak pulse. He was transported to a hospital, but about 90…

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…