Lynn, MA
Lifestyle
'Blessed' Haverhill Man Says $1 Million Win Was Thanks To Attending Easter Mass 'Blessed' Haverhill Man Says $1 Million Win Was Thanks To Attending Easter Mass
'Blessed' Haverhill Man Says $1 Million Win Was Thanks To Attending Easter Mass A newly-minted lottery winner credited his windfall to a higher power and plans to use his new chunk of change to install a swimming pool.  Edward Richards won $1 million in the “Billion Dollar Extravaganza” instant ticket game and said he was inspired to buy the ticket after being blessed with holy water at Easter Mass on Saturday, April 8, according to the Massachusetts State Lottery.  Richards bought the ticket at Richdale Convenience, located on West Main Street in Georgetown. He said he would not have gone to that specific store had he not gone to the Easter service…

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by Morgan Gonzales
Ashburn, VA
Lifestyle
No Horsin' Around: Police In Virginia Help Family Rescue 1,800-Pound Horse From Swimming Pool No Horsin' Around: Police In Virginia Help Family Rescue 1,800-Pound Horse From Swimming Pool
No Horsin' Around: Police In Virginia Help Family Rescue 1,800-Pound Horse From Swimming Pool Police in Virginia came to the rescue of a massive horse that found itself in a precarious position when it went for a swim in a nearby pool. The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia was called to a residence on Green Springs Road regarding an 1,800-pound Draft horse that had fallen into a swimming pool after accidentally plowing through a fence. Police say that responding deputies determined that the horse knocked over the top rail of the fence surrounding the pool, jumped the fence, and walked out onto the nylon pool cover, causing it to fall into the frigid water, though its hea…

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by Zak Failla
Lower Paxton, PA
Police & Fire
Carpooling Goes Wrong, Jeep Dives Into Pennsylvania Pool (Photos) Carpooling Goes Wrong, Jeep Dives Into Pennsylvania Pool (Photos)
Carpooling Goes Wrong, Jeep Dives Into Pennsylvania Pool (Photos) Perhaps the car was overheating and need to cool off, or the driver misunderstood how carpooling works, but no matter the reason it's clear that diving and driving should not mix.  A red Jeep with its headlights still on was pulled from a Dauphin County swimming pool on Sunday, August 4, authorities say.  The Londonderry fire company and the Middletown volunteer fire department were both called to the "vehicle accident with entrapment" involving a swimming pool, according to officials with the crews.  No occupants when in the vehicle when the crews arrived, officials from both crews say.  …

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by Jillian Pikora
Trumbull-Monroe, CT
News
Woman's Quick Actions Save Drowning Child In Trumbull, Police Say Woman's Quick Actions Save Drowning Child In Trumbull, Police Say
Woman's Quick Actions Save Drowning Child In Trumbull, Police Say A Fairfield County woman is credited with saving the life of a child after she pulled the girl from a community swimming pool. The incident took place in Trumbull at the Ten Apartments, 100 Oakview Drive on Thursday, June 9. The victim, a 5-year-old Trumbull girl, was found unresponsive in the water at about 6 p.m. and was pulled out of the water, said Lt. Brian Weir, of the Trumbull Police.  A bystander at the pool saw what was occurring, immediately stepped in to help, and began doing CPR and rescue breathing on the girl, Weir said. A short time later, the …

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by Kathy Reakes
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
News
3-Year-Old Child Pulled From South Jersey Pool, State Police Say 3-Year-Old Child Pulled From South Jersey Pool, State Police Say
3-Year-Old Child Pulled From South Jersey Pool, State Police Say The body of a three-year-old child was pulled out of a swimming pool in Atlantic County, authorities said.  State troopers were called to a home in Buena Vista Township about 11:25 a.m. on Tuesday on a report of an unresponsive boy in a pool, a State Police spokesman said Louis Carlos Dimichele, of Buena Vista Township, was airlifted to a local hospital where the boy was pronounced died, the spokesman said.  The pool was located on his family’s property and the formal cause of death is still pending, according to the NJSP spokesman, Sgt. Philip Curry. No other details had been r…

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by Jon Craig