drownings

Cass County Sheriff Tom Burch reports that on September 8, 2012, at approximately 6:38 PM, the Cass County Sheriff's Office received a report of a capsized boat on Lake Winnibigoshish, in northern County near Bena. Responding officers located the boat and several items floating in...

BAGLEY -- The man who drowned in Lake Lemond here and discovered by a boater has officially been identified. The Clearwater County Sheriff's Office said Monday the death of Cisco Rolando Johnson, 23, doesn't appear suspicious. "The preliminary autopsy report indicates the cause...

A man in his 20s was found Sunday in Lake Lomond here. The Clearwater County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to a call at 3:30 p.m. after a boater reported finding a body floating in the lake, which is in the city. Deputies and Bagley police officers responded and recovered...

A Nashwauk, Minn., man died after trying to swim to a raft on Bray Lake in Itasca County on Wednesday. James George Gleason, 67, was pronounced dead at Fairview University Medical Center-Mesabi in Hibbing. Gleason was swimming out to a neighbor's raft on Bray Lake, north of Nashwauk,...

A Beltrami, Minn., woman died early Sunday after falling into Maple Lake near Mentor, Minn. According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, Cindy Hanson, 55, was seen jumping off a pontoon boat about 1:45 a.m. Sunday on Maple Lake, which is just south of Mentor. The sheriff's office,...

Authorities have released the names of the two men who drowned Sunday while tubing on the Red Lake River near Red Lake Falls, Minn. The bodies of Darrin Austin, 28, of East Grand Forks, and Michael Glover, 24, of Grand Forks, were recovered from the river, the Red Lake County Sheriff's...

A Willmar man apparently drowned on Lower Bottle Lake Wednesday night. According to the Hubbard County Sheriff's Department, 75-year-old William Naylor was working on his boat when he fell off the lift into the water shortly after 7:30 p.m. Naylor's wife and a neighbor tried to...

GRAND FORKS - Four-year-old Tayton Fitterer of Fargo, who was found unresponsive in a Grand Forks motel swimming pool Saturday, has died, according to police, who revealed new details of the case Tuesday. The boy had apparently been playing with siblings while an adult relative watched...