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DELRAY BEACH, FL — A Delray Beach woman was rescued from a storm drain this week, nearly two years after police found her naked and stuck in another storm drain weeks after her boyfriend reported her missing. According to a report by WFLA, Delray Beach police responded to a canal near Lindell Boulevard after someone reported a person in possible distress. When officers arrived, they asked a woman later identified as Lyndsey Kennedy if she needed help; however, she ignored them and climbed into a storm drain pipe, WFLA reported. Police said Kennedy refused to leave the drain and was...

A growing number of illegal immigrants are crawling through San Diego's vermin-infested storm drains to avoid the Border Patrol. The 23-mile system of pipes surfaces in hundreds of storm grates and manhole covers in the industrial Otay Mesa area. Muddy immigrants make their way through the narrow pipes, which often carry toxic industrial sludge. They climb out of manholes and storm grates in Otay Mesa and take public transportation, taxis or are picked up in private vehicles to get from there to downtown San Diego, officials said. Border agents are have begun working with city engineers to map out the...