CHICAGO (WGN) — Each year, 945 children drown, and for every fatality, there are five more kids treated in an emergency room—many left with severe brain damage. That’s why a Chicago organization is ...

There were 112 children who tragically drowned in Florida over the course of 2025, a statistic in which the Sunshine State ...

The number of fatal child drownings in Arizona declined sharply in 2025 after a spike in the tragic incidents the previous ...

Four-year-old Amir Santana loves water. He jumps in anytime he sees an opportunity. And because Amir also has autism, his mother, Dimarylee Valentin, has struggled to find swim classes that work for ...

A 5-year-old child has died in a drowning incident in Wayne, N.J., the Passaic County Prosecutor said. Authorities say it happened Friday evening at a home on Armstrong Avenue and Maple Lane. The ...

Jessica Quintana is facing two felony injury to child charges and a felony assault charge in Liberty County. Quintana is the mother of three kids who were hospitalized after a near drowning at the ...

A 6-year-old Michigan boy with autism drowned in a lake after wandering away from a family reunion on Saturday, July 26, at Belle Isle Park, near downtown Detroit, police say. A boy was playing in a ...

He was missing for about one hour before he was found in a river. A 6-year-old boy drowned after walking away during a family reunion in Michigan, authorities said. Kids were playing in a bouncy ...

CHICAGO, IL -- In horrifying detail, prosecutors described how three children, trapped in the back seat of their mother's car, screamed for help before they drowned in 4 feet of water in an Illinois ...