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BUFFALO, N.Y. — The JFK pool on Hickory Street has been drained after it was announced Monday that it’s closed for the summer. According to city officials, recent violence has left the pool without supervision after lifeguards refuse to return to their post. “I feel like it should’ve been a better decision than to just close the pool,” said Buffalo resident Pharez Lackerson. “That should’ve been the last resort.” What was once a community resource that reopened after years of closure on Buffalo’s East Side now sits quiet and empty after an alleged assault on a young city lifeguard who...

Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A Connecticut woman shared video of a bear that wandered onto her property and ended up beating the heat with a dip in her pool. Theresa Sanderson shared video of the bear swimming laps in the pool behind her Newington home. She said the bear spent several minutes swimming before climbing out of the water and wandering away from her property. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said there have been 51 reported bear sightings in Newington so far this year. An Auburn, Calif., resident shared video in May of a mother bear and...

Manisa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ferdi Zeyrek died from injuries sustained in an electrocution accident at his residence, Health Minister Memisoglu announced following the mayor's hospitalization and treatment. The 48-year-old mayor was electrocuted around 11:35 p.m. local time while investigating a suspected electrical fault in his pool's motor system at his home. Family members immediately shut off electrical breakers and called emergency services after hearing distress sounds.

Just when you thought it was time to sunscreen up and grab a cold one to slip in that pool floaty, you discover something like this: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/long-island/long-island-homeowner-uncovering-pool-for-summer-finds-body-floating-in-water/6278493/ Yes, on Sunday morning an East Shoreham (NY) resident removed his pool cover for the summer only to realize there had been a dead body floating in his pool for who knows how long. The homeowner did not want to be named and definitely didn't want to talk to the media, so I'll go ahead and respect his privacy. Interestingly enough, investigators are looking into whether the body might be that of 23-year-old...

A homeowner on Long Island made a shocking discovery when uncovering his pool for the summer, finding a body floating in the water after pulling off his pool cover.The East Shoreham, New York, homeowner called 911 Sunday afternoon after making the disturbing find of a man's body in his pool. He did not wish to comment Monday, though neighbors are now trying to figure out who the person may have been and what could have happened.

Podcaster Tim Pool took full advantage of his New Media seat in the White House Briefing Room to humiliate the corporate media to their faces … and it was glorious… “Many of the news organizations represented in this room have marched in lock step on false narratives, such as the ‘very fine people’ hoax, the Covington smear,” Pool said, prefacing his first official question to Awesome White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “And now, the ‘Maryland man’ hoax, where an MS-13 gang member, adjudicated by two different judges, I believe, is simply being referred to as a ‘Maryland man’ over...

Piers Morgan has slammed the Ultimate Pool Group after two transgender women contested the final of a professional women's event in Wigan on Sunday night, calling the situation 'preposterous' and accusing the sport of 'cheating bulls***'. The broadcaster's comments came after Harriet Haynes defeated Lucy Smith 8-6 in the final of a Women's Pro Series event, one of eight events on the Ultimate Pool Group's 2025 women's circuit. Both players are transgender, resulting in a wave of criticism on social media - most notably from former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies, who described the event as 'b****y ridiculous and grossly wrong...

The White House yanked a reporter at a left-leaning news outlet from the rotation of journalists given special access to President Trump, making good on its pledge to rip control away from the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA). HuffPost’s White House correspondent S.V. Date had been slated to serve as the daily print pool reporter Wednesday, but the Trump administration booted him in the wee hours of the night and replaced him with an Axios reporter. The administration also kicked Reuters out of the spot it enjoyed as a wire service. In the past, Reuters, the Associated Press and Bloomberg...

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Tuesday that the White House would now determine which reporters make up the press 'pool' - the group of journalists allowed into tight spaces like the Oval Office and Air Force One. Pool assignments had been in the hands of the White House Correspondents' Association - a membership organization for White House journalists from an array of outlets - to keep the White House from gatekeeping access.

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A New Jersey business owner used a drone to drop damaging dye into pools at homes and a motel in Atlantic County in recent weeks, authorities said. Patrick Spina IV, 45, of Absecon, was arrested at his business in Galloway on Friday after Absecon police and other law enforcement agencies tracked the drone back to Comfort Solutions Heating and Cooling, officials said. Absecon police began investigating Aug. 13 after homeowners called to say a drone hovering over their pool dropped a dye into it. The dye turned the pool water “an alarming shade of green.” Police then got reports from...

About half of Republicans would not vote for Donald Trump if he were convicted of a felony, a sign of the severe risks his legal problems pose for his 2024 U.S. presidential bid, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Thursday. *** The two-day Reuters/Ipsos poll asked respondents if they would vote for Trump for president next year if he were "convicted of a felony crime by a jury." Among Republicans, 45% said they would not vote for him, more than the 35% who said they would. The rest said they didn't know. Asked if they would vote for...

Residents of one Seattle neighborhood are furious vagrants living in an encampment have been spending summer days installing a blow-up pool to enjoy between hits of fentanyl. Highland Park homeowners - many who are elderly - say the addition of a pool in the area feels like a slap in the face after months of voicing their concerns. Video captured by KOMO in the Seattle neighborhood shows one woman sitting on a couch next to the pool and smoking fentanyl in broad daylight. 'These people come in and totally trash the place. Someone told me they hooked up a hose...

Minardi was reluctant at first, but the idea resonated with him, given his lifelong relationship with guns. Now 67, Minardi said he grew up hunting with friends and remembers receiving his first firearm, a double-barrel shotgun, when he was in middle school but already mindful of gun safety. Minardi said he opened a gunsmith business with his brother after attending classes in 1976 and in the 1980s he and his wife decided they wanted a pool and called up Jones, who owned A.H. Jones Pools Inc.

The CD Media Big Data Poll finds Democrat John Fetterman leading Republican Mehmet Oz by 43.8% to 40.0% in a quickly tightening race for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. That lead is now just outside the sampling error of the survey and comes as former President Donald Trump holds to the state to rally for both Dr. Oz and Doug Mastriano. By education, Dr. Oz leads among working class voters with no college degree 45.4% to 33.0% and among voters with some college or a 2-year degree, 42.1% to 36.5%. Fetterman leads among voters with a 4-year degree 51.0% to 39.3%...

YouTuber ‘The Quartering’ is putting up a massive $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or group responsible for a series of swattings involving podcast host Tim Pool. 2022 has been a crazy year so far, but for Timcast host Tim Pool, it’s been a dangerous one, to say the least. So far, Pool has had to deal with five separate swatting incidents with armed police showing up to his studio and now even his own personal home. With the dangers appearing to escalate, fellow YouTuber TheQuartering is stepping up to help his friend by...

More voters would choose former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden if the election were held today, according to a new Center for American Greatness poll. The national poll, conducted December 17 to December 19 among 750 registered voters, presented respondents with a series of questions about Biden’s performance in office and a hypothetical matchup with Trump.

A bear took a stroll through a California neighborhood and paused for a dip in a resident's backyard pool. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department warned residents of a neighborhood in San Dimas to remain in their homes when a bear was spotted wandering through the area. The bear wandered through multiple back yards before taking a swim in a resident's pool. "I see a bear jump in the pool and I told my buddy, 'Hey, I gotta get off the phone. I gotta film this," homeowner Christian Brown told KABC-TV. "The next thing I know the bear is just...

Two polished stone balls shaped about 5,500 years ago – linked to a mysterious practice almost unique to Neolithic Britain – have been discovered in an ancient tomb on the island of Sanday, in the Orkney Islands north of mainland Scotland. Hundreds of similar stone balls, each about the size of a baseball, have been found at Neolithic sites mainly in Scotland and the Orkney Islands, but also in England, Ireland, and Norway, Live Science previously reported. Some are ornately carved – such as the famous Towie ball discovered in northeast Scotland in 1860 – but others are studded with...

A man whose ingenious pop-up swimming pool kept the homeless cool during the recent heat wave was fatally stabbed in the same spot just one day later, according to Portland police. Officers identified Tyson L. Morlock as the man who was found stabbed in the inner eastside Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood at Division Street and Southeast Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard around 3:37 a.m. on Thursday, July 1. Despite life-saving efforts from paramedics, he died shortly thereafter in a nearby hospital, according to authorities. Morlock, 27, had been interviewed the previous day, June 30, by a reporter on assignment for the Reuters...