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Twenty-seven-year-old Erica Green was allegedly drowned in a bathtub Tuesday by a Delaware man, who then set her home on fire to cover her murder. Green, who had been living with her mother in Elkins along with apparent boarders Patrick Devonshire and Robert Hurt, was ultimately identified through tattoos, reports say Elkton Police Department concluded. Green’s autopsy shows asphyxiation by drowning as the cause of death. Reports also say that Jeffery Cordell, 25, of Middletown, has confessed to drowning Green…

Muskegon County, Michigan officials removed the siblings of two children who drowned last month from the custody of their parents, reports say. Two children, Ya’Mesha Mitchell and Torrey Day, slipped into a half filled pool at a vacant home while parents were at the location, but not taking care of the youngsters, reports say. The two children couldn’t swim and died. The children were from two different families, and at least one parent from each family was present when the drownings occurred….

A Glendale, Arizona family and students at a local high school are grieving the loss of 16-year-old Jesus “Jesse” Prado, who drowned at the school pool last month.

An experienced British diver drowned last week during deep water training at a scuba diving center that has already been the scene of numerous fatalities. The diver, whose name has not been released, reportedly had trouble in an exercise meant to improve deep diving skills at the British National Diving Center in Leicestershire. Four other divers also risked decompression sickness by bringing the diver to the surface at a speed that could have been fatal to them, reports say. Even…

The body of missing New England commercial fisherman Arthur Brooks, 77, was recovered last week from the York River, reports say. Brooks’ body was spotted by a member of the Marine Police in the following morning. Brooks was discovered nearly a mile from where his fishing boat capsized a day earlier. Sixty-four-year-old Al Madison, another commercial fisherman on the same capsized boat, was found March the following day. Rescue teams had been combing the water for the first days in…