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Jun 24, 2008 5:46 AM CDT

Philippine Ferry Likely a 'Mass Grave'

'Many' corpses found in sunken ship; officials face tricky recovery

(Newser) - Floating corpses discovered in a Philippines ferry sunk by a typhoon have stoked mounting fears that most of the 800 people on board were drowned, Reuters reports. “It will be a miracle if we find survivors,” said a coast guard spokesman. Searching for more bodies, authorities will drill...

Man Charged
in Wife's
Honeymoon
Dive Death

Jun 20, 2008 11:25 AM CDT

Man Charged in Wife's Honeymoon Dive Death

Australian authorities decide bride's demise was no accident

(Newser) - An Alabama man has been charged with murdering his wife on a diving trip to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the AP reports. The bride, a novice diver, drowned minutes after diving to a shipwreck with her husband. He was a qualified dive rescuer but rose to the surface rather than...

Teen Dies in Quarry Jump Rite

Jun 5, 2008 7:37 AM CDT

Teen Dies in Quarry Jump Rite

65-foot plunge was made famous in 1979 film

(Newser) - A teenage rite of passage made popular in a movie claimed a life yesterday when an 18-year-old high school graduate plunged 65 feet to his death into an Indiana quarry pool, ABC reports. The plunge was featured in the 1979 coming-of-age movie Breaking Away and is routinely copied by local...

65 Feared Dead in Tanzania Mine

Mar 30, 2008 11:15 AM CDT

65 Feared Dead in Tanzania Mine

Six recovered, 59 missing as flash floods combine with downed power lines

(Newser) - Rescuers now fear that 65 miners trapped in a northern Tanzanian mine shaft have drowned, reports Reuters, with six bodies recovered and 59 workers missing. Volunteers raced to the remote gemstone mine near Mount Kilimanjaro yesterday when flash floods swept through the area, but the torrential weather also brought down...

Death Airs Hedge-Fund Excesses

Dec 5, 2007 3:00 PM CST

Death Airs Hedge-Fund Excesses

Drowning unleashes rumors of coke binges, male strippers and murder

(Newser) - The legal wrangling that has followed the September death of hedge fund manager Seth Tobias in his Florida swimming pool is sensational enough, the New York Times reports—his wife says he drowned; Tobias' brothers accuse his wife of murder—but details of the high living bankrolled by high finance...

Searchers Recover Body
of Missing
NE Patriot

May 28, 2007 3:55 PM CDT

Searchers Recover Body of Missing NE Patriot

DE believed drowned in New Orleans

(Newser) - The body of New England Patriots defensive end Marquise Hill was pulled from Lake Pontchartrain this afternoon, almost a day after the New Orleans native was reported missing. His agent told the Boston Globe that Hill, 24, and a young woman fell off a personal watercraft in a strong current....