drowning

A 5-year-old boy died after his father found him face down in a bathtub with a cut to his neck. The man also found his wife in the bedroom cutting herself, Philadelphia police said.

A father returned to an apartment along Pine Street in West Philadelphia to find his 5-year-old son unresponsive, face down in a bathtub with a cut to his neck, Philadelphia police said. The boy later died at the hospital. The boy’s mother was also found with self-inflicted wounds and is being evaluated. NBC10’s Pamela Osborne reports.

Swimmers along the New Jersey Shore were advised to use caution Tuesday after a man drowned in seas churned as Hurricane Paulette battered Bermuda.

Loved ones are mourning a man who drowned in a lake in Winslow Township, New Jersey.

An investigation is underway after the body of a missing swimmer was found in a lake in Winslow Township, New Jersey.

Loved ones are mourning a man who drowned in a “lake” at a private property in Manchester Township, New Jersey.

A mother and grandfather who drowned in their backyard pool in New Jersey a week ago were trying to rescue an 8-year-old girl who had fallen in, police said.

Authorities in New Jersey have identified three family members who died Monday in their backyard swimming pool

An American man has died while proposing to his girlfriend underwater during a vacation in Tanzania, NBC News reported. Steven Weber drowned while asking Kenesha Antoine to marry him at an island resort off the east coast of Africa Thursday. Antoine shared the news of Weber’s death on her Facebook page, saying that he “never emerged from those depths.”

A boy was found dead in a pool at Delaware County’s Folcroft Swim Club early Wednesday morning. He and his friends snuck into the club after hours, police said.

A boy drowned after he and three friends apparently snuck into a swim club in Delaware County, police said.

A boy was found dead in a pool at Delaware County’s Folcroft Swim Club early Wednesday morning. He and his friends snuck into the club after hours, police said.

Prosecutors say a Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the drowning death of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old nephew.

The first great white shark to ever ping in the Long Island Sound had an inauspicious introduction to fame Monday, drawing so much traffic to a research group’s website that it stopped working — and still was having trouble the next day.

Researchers are tracking a great white shark in the Long Island Sound for the first time ever, according to the group OCEARCH.

Two Missouri officers saved the life of a 6-month-old girl whose father walked into their police station and said he had just drowned his daughter, authorities say. Greenwood police Chief Greg Hallgrimson and Cpl. Tom Calhoun rushed to a pond where the man said he had drowned his daughter Monday and pulled her out, performed CPR and warmed her up...

Authorities have arrested a New Jersey man who is accused of leaving a young pit bull mix to drown in a cage at water’s edge in a rising tide.

A bachelor party contest to see who could stay underwater the longest ended in death when police say one competitor didn’t resurface.

Lana Wood, the sister of actress Natalie Wood whose drowning death in 1981 has fueled speculation for decades, has put out a plea for information about the case in a new podcast.

Signs of drowning can often be loud and attention-grabbing, but that’s not the case with shallow water blackouts, also known as the silent killer.