water search

A woman’s body was found near a restaurant in the waters of Narragansett Bay near Bristol, Rhode Island, Thursday, police said. Police in Portsmouth said Friday that the body is that of a woman who fell from a ferry in the bay this week, She was 39-year-old Laura Ward from Prudence Island. The body was found in the water...

First responders searched overnight for a person in the water in or around Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Monday night, officials said. A woman fell off the Prudence Island ferry about 6:30 p.m., Bristol’s fire chief told NBC affiliate WJAR. But the search was suspended Tuesday, after Coast Guard crews spent 10 hours scanning 39 square nautical miles without finding her,…

Authorities searching the Taunton River in Somerset, Massachusetts, have recovered the body of a man who went boating Friday night and never returned. The Somerset Fire Chief confirmed in a statement the man’s body was recovered around 11 a.m. Sunday as the result of their coordinated search involving multiple public-safety agencies. The man’s name has not been released. The...