Lake

BAUDETTE, Minn.—A passenger died after a commercial transport vehicle crashed through the ice on a Minnesota lake. Meanwhile, state officials are warning people to be wary of ice that is unusually thin for this time of the winter. The transport vehicle, commonly known as a “bomber,” crashed through the ice Thursday morning on Lake of […]

Roseville, Calif.—Police arrested two people, including a former professional baseball player, Friday in Nevada in connection to a Lake Tahoe-area attack that left a man dead and his wife in critical condition. After a two-year investigation, Danny Serafini, 49, and Samantha Scott, 33, were arrested separately, hundreds of miles apart in Las Vegas and northwest […]

SHREVEPORT, La.—A woman was found guilty Wednesday of throwing her sons into a Louisiana lake, killing a 10-month-old and injuring the older child, authorities said. Jurors deliberated about two hours before returning unanimous verdicts against Ureka Rochelle Black, 34, of Shreveport, the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office said. Ms. Black was charged with murder and […]

Ashland City, Tenn.—The weekend collision of a jet ski and a barge on a Tennessee waterway has left officials searching for a 9-year-old boy whose father died in the crash. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency said 36-year-old Steven White died after the jet ski carrying him and his son hit a barge being pushed by […]

ALGOMA, Wis.—Shipwreck hunters have discovered the intact remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881 and is so well-preserved it still contains the crew’s possessions in its final resting spot miles from Wisconsin’s coastline. Wisconsin maritime historians Brendon Baillod and Robert Jaeck found the 156-year-old Trinidad in July off Algoma at a […]

Police are investigating multiple retrieved vehicles after they were discovered submerged in a lake in Doral, Florida, by underwater search teams and divers. Divers at a private agency investigating missing persons cold cases found about 30 vehicles while exploring the lake. They notified the local police, and dive teams from various agencies began efforts to […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A rescue and recovery dive team was deployed Saturday after a helicopter with a pilot and three state workers crashed in a large lake on Alaska’s North Slope, officials said. No survivors have been located. “The official word is, they are missing, presumed fatal,” said Clint Johnson, the chief of the National Transportation Safety […]

A man in eastern Texas who dove about 40 feet from an embankment into a shallow portion of a lake has died from his injuries, according to authorities. Police said the incident happened Saturday at Lake Gladewater, a 481-acre body of water 20 miles west of Longview, Texas. At least seven witnesses told police the […]

California’s lakes are getting replenished. The second largest reservoir, Oroville, is at 100 percent capacity, or 127 percent of the historical average.

Four people have died after two aircraft collided over Lake Hartridge in Winter Haven, Florida, on March 7, law enforcement officials said. Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, Polk County Chief of Staff Steve Lester said police received a phone call about two planes that were involved in an “in-air collision” over the lake at around 2:04 […]

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.—Even for the Thunder Bay area, a perilous swath of northern Lake Huron off the Michigan coast that has devoured many a ship, the Ironton’s fate seems particularly cruel. The 191-foot (58-meter) cargo vessel collided with a grain hauler on a blustery night in September 1894, sinking both. The Ironton’s captain and six […]

An annual ice fishing tournament on Vermont’s Lake Champlain has been canceled after the deaths of three fisherman on the lake since Thursday, an organizer of the tournament told CNN Sunday. Wayne Alexander from Grand Isle, Vermont, died Thursday after falling through the ice, according to a release from Vermont State Police. The 62-year-old’s body […]

PARK TOWNSHIP, Mich.—Two sisters escaped from a car that went into a lake in western Michigan and then shivered for hours in soggy coats and bare feet before finally finding help, authorities said. Their 52-year-old father, who was driving the car, was dead when divers located the vehicle Sunday in Lake Macatawa, the Ottawa County […]

MANISTEE COUNTY, Mich.—Human remains found in 1997 along Lake Michigan’s shoreline in western Michigan have been identified as those of a Chicago woman last seen weeks earlier at a Wisconsin beachfront park, police said Monday. Forensic experts relying on advanced DNA analyses confirmed in December that the remains are those of Dorothy Lynn (Thyng) Ricker, […]

Three adults lost their lives after falling into Woods Canyon Lake, Arizona, according to a police press release on Tuesday. Narayana Rao Muddana, 49, his wife Haritha Muddana, and Gokul Mediseti were walking on ice when they broke through and fell into the water. “Responding Deputies and Fire units were able to pull the female […]

On Dec. 13, a hearing over Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s election lawsuit took place before a Maricopa County Superior Court judge. The filing is asking the judge to declare Lake the winner over governor-elect Katie Hobbs, or at least order a recount in Maricopa County where Lake claims voters were disenfranchised. A two-day trial […]

Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake filed a lawsuit on Dec. 9 against several actors, including the Maricopa County Recorder, Stephen Richer. Richer’s office responded to the lawsuit on Dec. 12.