Pools make for entertaining places to spend summer days and evenings. Pools provide some respite from the heat of the sun and children often spend hours splashing with friends, all the while getting ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- A6-year-old Edina, Minn., girl remained hospitalized in serious condition Wednesday after an unusual accident in which several feet of her intestine were pulled out by the suction of a ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Department of Health is seeking a $10,000 fine against the Minneapolis Golf Club after its investigation of the swimming pool accident that led to the death of 6-year-old ...

PLYMOUTH, Minnesota — A drowning Sunday night in a pond at Loring Park marks the fourth one in the Twin Cities in about 10 days. With summer-like temperatures now here, a lot of people are ready to ...

COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - School is back in session, but summer is not gone just yet. With Usher's young son getting stuck in the pool drainage when he tried to get his toy, along with a new aquatic ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) âÄî Nearly three months after a federal deadline to make public swimming pools safer, many have yet to be fitted with equipment aimed at keeping children safe from the powerful and ...

Cohn, of Greenwich, Conn., and Baker, who lives in Maine, have united in their grief and joined forces to fight for tougher pool safety laws and to resist what they say are efforts to weaken them. "It ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) &#8212 Tens of thousands of public swimming pools and hot tubs could be forced to close Saturday if they do not have new anti-drowning drain covers required under a sweeping law ...

A 6-year-old girl who sat on an open drain in a wading pool lost part of her intestinal tract to the drain’s powerful suction, her family said. Abigail Taylor was injured in the wading pool on June 29 ...

After Memorial Day, many Washington area parents breathe a sigh of relief as pools are open and their children have a safe place to spend a summer day. Or at least that is what the Freed family of ...

Minnesota would adopt stricter swimming pool safety standards that would require daily inspections and retrofitting public swimming and wading pools under a bill that cleared a Senate committee ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With school out for the summer and temperatures rising across the country, many families will visit the beach, lake or local swimming pool. Now is the time to review safety ...