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Retriever Fever: America's Most Popular Dogs, in Photos
The Labrador retriever is America’s best best friend, according to the American Kennel Club. This gallery features “aw”-inducing photos of the top 10 most popular dog breeds in America, as judged by the AKC.
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Detectives Used DNA From Straw to Catch Man Who Raped Lifeguard at Virginia Pool
A man has pleaded guilty to the broad-daylight abduction and rape of a lifeguard at a pool in Alexandria, Virginia.
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No Lifeguards at Most Beaches This Weekend
This weekend is expected to be perfect for the beach, but, if you’re headed to some beaches you may not see any lifeguards on duty.
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Mom Works to Make Beaches Safer From Sharks After Daughter Attacked
Like many kids in Florida, Violet Jalil loves the ocean. But for the past two years, her mom hasn’t let her 5-year-old daughter swim in the ocean.
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Shark Week Lasts All Summer on Cape Cod
In recent years, great white shark sightings have become all the more common on Cape Cod. Already this year, more than 150 of the sharks have been spotted off of Massachusetts. Most of the sightings are on the outer Cape, from Chatham to Provincetown. But there have also been many sightings in Cape Cod Bay, where research scientists have been...
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Shark Week: 17 More Great White Sightings Off Cape Cod
Over the past week, there were 17 shark sightings off Cape Cod, including seven over the weekend alone. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, great white sharks were spotted in Cape Cod Bay and off Truro, Eastham, Orleans, Chatham and Monomoy Island.
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Another Busy Weekend: 15 More Great White Sharks Spotted Off Massachusetts Coast
It was another busy weekend for shark sightings, with 15 great whites spotted off the coast of Massachusetts on Saturday and Sunday combined. That’s the same number of sharks that were spotted the weekend before. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, seven great white sharks were spotted off Provincetown, one off Truro, two of Wellfleet, one off...
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4-Year-Old Girl Run Over by Coronado Lifeguard Released from Hospital
A 4-year-old girl who was run over by a lifeguard truck at a Coronado beach Monday was released from Rady Children’s Hospital Tuesday afternoon.
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4-Year-Old Girl Run Over by Coronado Lifeguard Released from Hospital
A 4-year-old girl who was run over by a lifeguard truck at a Coronado beach Monday was released from Rady Children’s Hospital Tuesday afternoon.
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Hartford Keeping Kids Safe in Community Pools
As temperatures begin to sizzle and anticipation for July 4th builds, community pools around the state are opening up and hitting capacity, such as Colt Park in Hartford, which had 800 people on Thursday at its peak.
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Lifeguard Shortage Leads to Reduced Swimming Hours at Lake in Barkhamsted
A shortage of lifeguards in Connecticut has led at least one popular swimming area to reduce its hours of operation.
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Beach-Goers Soak Up the Sun This Memorial Day Weekend
Lots of Connecticut residents are soaking up the sun this Memorial Day Weekend.
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State Looking to Hire More Lifeguards
Lifeguarding is a glamorous summer job but qualified candidates are in short supply here in Connecticut.
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Va. Man Sues Police, Lifeguard Who Saved Him From Drowning
A Virginia man who reportedly suffered a bipolar episode and tried to drown himself in a pool is suing the police officers and lifeguard who pulled him out of the water.
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Lifeguard at Deadly Beach Predicted a Future Sand Collapse
A lifeguard at a beach in New Jersey where three people died when the sand collapsed under their feet as they walked along the shoreline said a year after the most recent death that “we know it’s going to happen again.”North Wildwood lifeguard Lt. David Lindsay made the admission in a secretly recorded conversation played in court Friday as a...
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CT LIVE!: Nissan Weekend Warrior: Farmington River Tubing
Farmington River Tubing provides a great way to cool off for the whole family.
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Search for Canadian Girl Presumed Drowned Enters Second Day
Crews resumed their search Monday for a 12-year-old Canadian girl who fell off a boat in San Diego’s San Vicente Reservoir Saturday.
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Wet Wedding: Just-Married Coast Guardsman Saves Struggling Swimmer
A bridegroom has been credited with saving a struggling swimmer just moments after his beach wedding on the Gulf Coast last week. Zac and Cindy Edwards had just gotten married at Orange Beach, Alabama, and were taking wedding photos when a woman came up and said someone was struggling in the surf, WALA-TV reported. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class...
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Shark Season: Cape Cod Beach Closed Due to Great White Sighting at Truro's Head of the Meadow Beach
For the second straight day, a Cape Cod beach has been temporarily closed to swimming due to a shark sighting.
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Drone Captures Man's Close Encounter With Great White Shark
A man survived a close encounter with a Great White Shark on Cape Cod over the weekend, without having realized he was in danger until after the fact.