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• Body of missing boater discovered

  August 27, 2012 4:16 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Rescuers have recovered a body believed to be that of a boater who disappeared while trying to free an anchor in Cherry Creek Reservoir. The man's wife said her family was watching the sunset Saturday when the boat's anchor became stuck in the mud on the bottom... more »

• Search is on for possible drowning victim

  May 31, 2012 2:00 PM

  A search is underway at Skagway Reservoir for a possible drowning victim after an empty canoe was found this morning. Dive teams from the Colorado Springs Fire Department are on the way to assist in the search at the reservoir which is located east of Victor in Teller County.... more »

• Drowning victim identified

  August 1, 2011 5:10 PM

  The Pueblo County Coroners offices has identified the drowning victim who died Sunday while swimming at the Pueblo Reservoir. Einn Brasher, 16, went underwater just before 5:00 p.m. in an area known as Hook's Cove on the southwest side of the lake. This is the second drowning at the... more »

• Navajo dancer identified in lake drowning

  July 30, 2011 12:14 PM

  PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A teenager found drowned in a southwest Colorado lake last week has been identified as a Utah member of the Navajo Nation who traveled to Lake Capote with a group of dancers from tribes in New Mexico. The director of the Department of Justice... more »

• Coaches remember drowned teen

  July 23, 2011 9:05 PM

  Just a day after the news of 18 year old Jake Clifton's drowning death, his baseball coaches look out over the field he took so many times, still shaken by the news. "You can't say enough about the type of kid he was." says Jake's coach Terry Montoya. On... more »

• Coroner releases name of Pueblo Reservoir drowning victim

  July 23, 2011 11:19 AM

  The Pueblo County Coroner has released the name of the man that drowned Friday in the Pueblo Reservoir. 18-year-old Jacob "Jake" Clifton was swimming across the channel in the 3 fingers area with friends around 2:30 p.m. Friday when he went missing. Divers found his body four hours... more »

• Coroner: Fisherman had heart attack, fell in river

  July 10, 2011 2:44 PM

  FAIRPLAY, Colo. (AP) - The Park County coroner says a fisherman visiting from New Jersey suffered a heart attack and fell into the South Platte River Friday. Sixty-five-year-old Robert Chilstrom's body was recovered about 100 yards downstream in the Eleven Mile Canyon. Coroner David Kintz Jr. told The (Colorado... more »

• Body recovered from Eleven Mile Reservoir

  May 22, 2011 9:00 PM

  State park employees have confirmed to News First 5 that a body has been recovered from Eleven Mile Reservoir. Park officials responded to the reservoir around 1 this afternoon after a boat was reported capsized. They tell high winds have been prevalent all day. When a search team entered this... more »

• Woman accepts plea agreement in toddler's drowning

  March 12, 2011 4:22 PM

  GREELEY, Colo. (AP) - A woman who told police she was playing games on Facebook when her 13-month-old son drowned in a bathtub has pleaded guilty to negligent child abuse in a plea agreement. Thirty-four-year-old Shannon Johnson of Evans entered her plea Friday in Weld County District Court in... more »

• Fort Lupton mother charged in son's drowning

  January 15, 2011 12:20 PM

  GREELEY, Colo. (AP) - A Fort Lupton mother charged in the drowning of her 1 year-old son told police she was in the living room looking at Facebook while the boy was in the bathtub. The Weld County district attorney's office says 34-year-old Shannon Johnson has been charged with... more »

• Harrison High School seniors remembered at vigil

  September 21, 2010 9:49 PM

  At least 300 people gathered Tuesday night on the Harrison High School campus to remember Victorino DeJesus Martinez and Juan Neri Segura. The two drowned in Prospect Lake in Colorado Springs Monday afternoon. Victorino was remembered as a great soccer captain. "He had motivation," remembers fellow teammate and... more »

• Grief counselors help Harrison students adjust to loss

  September 21, 2010 3:37 PM

  A school district crisis team is working with counselors at Harrison High School to help students handle the loss of two of their classmates after they drowned in an accident at Prospect Lake in Memorial Park yesterday. Principal Cheri Martinez says that Victorino DeJesus Martinez and Juan Neri Segura... more »

• Eleven Mile drowning victim identified

  August 30, 2010 4:21 PM

  The Park County Coroner has identified the man who drowned in Eleven Mile Reservoir over the weekend. The body of Clifford Carrano, 49, was pulled from the reservoir Sunday night. The coroner ruled the death a drowning. Witnesses say Carrano was sitting on the shore of the reservoir when... more »

• Up to 3 people missing in storm-flooded Iowa creek

  August 11, 2010 8:55 AM

  Dive teams are searching for two or three people whose cars were swept away in raging floodwaters from a storm-swollen creek in central Iowa. Polk County spokesman A.J. Munn says the search began around 5 a.m. Wednesday after the vehicles were swept away overnight between Altoona and Mitchellville, about... more »

• Update: Man drowns in Brush Hollow Reservoir

  August 6, 2010 4:56 PM

  Many of us have thought it before; could I make it to the other side? Friday, crews in Fremont County pulled the body of a young man who tried and didn't make it out of the Brush Hollow Reservoir. "It drops off as you head out from shore,... more »

• 6 teens drown in Louisiana river; 7th rescued

  August 3, 2010 8:13 AM

  Fire officials say six teenagers have drowned in a Louisiana river and a seventh has been rescued. Shreveport Assistant Fire Chief Fred Sanders says the teens were playing in the Red River Monday evening and stepped over a sudden drop-off to 20 feet deep. He says the teens ranged... more »

• Ft. Carson soldier who drowned ID'd

  July 27, 2010 6:43 PM

  Ft. Carson has released the name of a soldier who drowned Sunday on post. He was Spc. Terry L. Ryan, II. The 23 year old was trying to get a boat that had drifted away at Townsend Reservoir. He went under the water and never came back up. Ryan... more »

• Rafter drowns in accident on Arkansas River

  May 27, 2010 1:47 PM

  The drowning death of a Canon City woman is being investigated in Fremont County. The accident happened yesterday afternoon in the Arkansas River just west of Parkdale. Fremont County Coroner Dorothy Twellman says that 22-year old Nikki Innes was training to be a raft guide with Whitewater Adventure... more »

• AFA cadets honored for saving lives

  October 7, 2009 6:03 PM

  Four Air Force Academy cadets swam out in a riptide in Panama to save three people from drowning. In a separate incident, two cadets gave first aid to a man they saw get hit by a train. The six cadets credited with saving lives received special recognition from the... more »