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A man has pleaded guilty to the broad-daylight abduction and rape of a lifeguard at a pool in Alexandria, Virginia.

A teenage boy was impaled by a beach umbrella Friday afternoon while he was visiting Gloucester, Massachusetts, authorities said. The 13-year-old was on Good Harbor Beach when an umbrella got loose in the wind and flew into his shoulder, leaving him seriously hurt, according to fire officials.

A 13-year-old boy was seriously injured when an umbrella went airborne.

A New England staple is shutting its doors at the end of the summer. Water Wizz of Westerly, Rhode Island, will be closing after 40 years of operations, the water park announced Wednesday. The park, located near Misquamicut State Beach, is closing due to its aging infrastructure and what it says are the ever-increasing costs of operating a small business...

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.

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...

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.

Monday: Hot, humid, chance of thunder later. Highs in the 90s. Monday night: Warm, humid. Lows in the 70s. Tuesday: Continued heat and humidity. Highs in the 90s.

A shark was spotted by a lifeguard at a Cape Cod beach on Sunday. Around 10:45 a.m., one shark fin was seen at Marconi Beach in Wellfleet, according to Sharktivity.

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...

A Boston man has died after being pulled from the water Tuesday at Revere Beach, police said Wednesday. The man was identified by Massachusetts State Police as 58-year-old Thomas M. Burns. Bystanders and lifeguards had pulled him from the surf before 3 p.m. and he was unresponsive when police arrived.

A man was hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after being pulled from the water at Revere Beach. Massachusetts State Police said when they arrived to the beach for a possible drowning just before 3 p.m., bystanders had already pulled the man from the water.

A swimmer in distress at Revere Beach was pulled from the water Tuesday, and witnesses say the situation went from bad to worse.

It was a busy weekend for sharks, with at least 15 great whites spotted off the coast of Massachusetts. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, 11 great white sharks were spotted off Provincetown, one off Orleans and one off Wellfleet on Saturday. Sharks were also spotted in Cape Cod Bay and off Rockport on the North Shore...

There were multiple shark sightings off Cape Cod beaches on Saturday, including at Nauset Beach in Orleans where a lifeguard spotted a great white about 50 yards off the beach.

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.

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.

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.

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...