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A former sheriff’s deputy in South Carolina who drove a jail van into floodwaters while transporting two women to a mental health center in 2018, causing them to drown in a cage in the back as the water rose, was convicted on Thursday and sentenced to 18 years in prison. A Marion County jury found …

LAKE PIRU (CBSLA) — The search for 33-year-old actress Naya Rivera was suspended late Wednesday night after she went missing earlier in the day. According to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department, Rivera rented a pontoon boat at about 1 p.m. for she and her 4-year-old son to take out onto Lake Piru. Ventura County Sheriff’s …

Scores of refugees and migrants are feared drowned after the boats they were travelling in capsized off Libya’s coast in the Mediterranean Sea, according to aid agencies and officials. Ayoub Qasim, a spokesman for Libya’s coastguard, told The Associated Press news agency that two boats carrying around 300 people sank around 120km east of the capital, Tripoli, before …

The heart-rending image of a Salvadoran father and his young daughter who drowned crossing the Rio Grande on their way to the U.S. highlighted the human cost of the humanitarian crisis at the border. The image, taken Monday by Julia Le Duc and published by Mexican newspaper La Jornada, showed the young daughter of Óscar …