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A 37-year-old Massachusetts man died while trying to rescue his wife and step-son from a fast-moving river in New Hampshire on Sunday afternoon.

A family hiking trip in New Hampshire turned into a tragedy for a Massachusetts family on Tuesday, when a mother drowned trying to save one of her children, police say

Witnesses told police the father jumped in after the kids but lost his balance and never made it out. News 4’s Chris Jose reports.

The 42-year-old man was pulled out by a local dive team, police said.

Emergency rescue crews pulled the body of a father out from a New Jersey canal on Wednesday evening after responding to a distress call. Franklin Township officials said the 42-year-old South River man had gone into the Millstone River around 2:15 p.m. to help his children get out after becoming “distressed.” “The victim went into the water to help, pulled…

A 19-year-old swimmer was recovered from the waters off Jacob Riis Park late Friday.

Marc Santia reporting on RIP current concerns amid extreme heat

Andrew Siff reporting on the deadly drowning of a young boy in Queens.

It was a tragic holiday weekend in Rockaway Beach, Queens, where a teenage boy ended up losing his life after getting caught in rough waters. The tragedy unfolded Sunday around 6 p.m. near Beach 75th Street and the Rockaway Beach boardwalk. Beachgoers present during the tragic episode estimate that the child was under water for several minutes. Witnesses say that…

A teenager drowned at Rockaway Beach during the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Gaby Acevedo reports.

A family in New Jersey is mourning after a 15-year-old boy drowned after going into the waters off Sandy Hook on Sunday, officials said. The tragedy took place in the first beach that people enter the Gateway Recreation Area — an area where signage says that swimming is prohibited. According to park officials, six people from a family entered the…

NBC 4 New York’s Tracie Strahan reports.

Authorities say they’ve recovered the bodies of two boaters, nearly two days after they went missing in an accident on a Florida lake near the Legoland theme park. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office says the bodies of Orlando Ortiz and Jeffrey Marrero were located Monday in Lake Eloise. Officials say the two men jumped into the Winter Haven lake on...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference that the two men had jumped into Lake Eloise to save a third person from their group.

Tonight an emotional vigil was held for the three young children who lost their lives earlier this week. Ida Siegal reports.

A 21-year-old woman who leaped into a New York lake along with her 18-year-old brother to help another family member who was struggling to stay afloat late last month has also died, relatives said in a GoFundMe post this week. Nasrin Amin had been on life support since the Aug. 28 tragedy at White Lake in the Sullivan County town…

A family summer getaway in the Catskills ended in tragedy after two two people drowned on Sunday, with one person still in critical conditions, Greg Cergol reports.

An 18-year-old from Long Island is dead after an end-of-summer swim in a New York lake turned tragic over the weekend, authorities said Monday.

An 18-year-old from Long Island and his brother-in-law are dead, and another family member was critically hurt, after an end-of-summer swim in a New York lake turned tragic, according to the family and police. The family said that 34-year-old Alfrid Haider was swimming Sunday at White Lake in the Sullivan County town of Bethel when he started to struggle in…

A 2-year-old boy drowned in a backyard pool in New Jersey Sunday afternoon, authorities say. Police in Union County’s Linden responding to a call about a possible drowning at a McKinley Street home around 5:15 p.m. Sunday say family members had already pulled the toddler from the water and were trying to revive him. He was taken to a...