20 saved from drowning at popular Goa beach

August 21st, 2009 Landslide on Portuguese beach kills 1, injures 8LISBON, Portugal — A landslide at a Portuguese seaside resort killed one person and injured at least eight others Friday, officials said. Two people were missing.

August 21st, 2009 Landslide on Portuguese beach kills 5, injures 4LISBON, Portugal — A landslide at a Portuguese seaside resort killed five people and injured at least four Friday, officials said. Part of a cliff collapsed and buried bathers at Maria Luisa beach in Albufeira on the Algarve coast, said Marques Pereira, the head of maritime facilities in Faro.

July 27th, 2009 PANAJI - A legislator of the ruling Congress party in Goa Monday claimed the state's renowned Calangute beach has been parcelled out between various international narcotics cartels. Speaking in the assembly, Calangute legislator Agnelo Fernandes said that drug cartels from Nigeria, Scotland, Israel and Russia had carved out independent pockets of influence in the popular coastal village of Calangute and even he felt threatened travelling there at night.

July 20th, 2009 PANAJI - Seven beaches of Goa, where many popular tourist resorts were located, are reeling under the threat of sea erosion, state Water Resources Minister Filipe Neri Rodrigues said. "In all, 21 stretches which are spread over a length of 11.22 km (of coastal area) have been affected," he said in a written reply to the state legislative assembly.

July 3rd, 2009 Texas woman to serve 9 years in infant's drowningSAN ANTONIO — A Texas woman will serve at least nine years in prison for drowning her 3-month-old granddaughter in what the defense said was a misguided effort to teach the infant to swim. Gabriella Sigler must serve half of the 18-year sentence imposed Thursday before being eligible for parole.

July 1st, 2009 Montreal woman gets 15 years in son's Vt. drowningNORTH HERO, Vt.

July 1st, 2009 Child, woman drown off NJ resort's unguarded beachNORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. — A woman and a child have drowned off a popular south New Jersey resort community, where vacationers say rip currents were strong enough to have swept them away.

June 16th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Two minor girls drowned after the car in which they were travelling with their parents fell into a canal near Ghaziabad Tuesday afternoon, police said. Police officer Kamal Singh said a family of five, including three children, was travelling in their Maruti car alongside the Masoori canal when their car plunged into the canal after the driver lost control after a tyre burst.

June 8th, 2009 Fla. woman says barking dog saved her from blazeGROVELAND, Fla. — A Florida woman's barking dog saved her from a fire at her home.

May 7th, 2009 PANAJI - The carcass of a 14-metre-long humpback whale, hastily buried by forest department officials in the popular Palolem beach in south Goa, is driving away tourists due to stench from the dead animal, much to the ire of local shopkeepers dependent on the tourists. The blubbery carcass of the whale had washed ashore at a small uninhabited island off Palolem April 29.

April 23rd, 2009 SC wildfire chars 3,000 acres near popular beachMYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Firefighters fear another day of strong winds and low humidity could keep spreading a coastal wildfire that has charred thousands of acres and spread smoke over some of the busiest tourist spots in South Carolina.

April 23rd, 2009 SC wildfire destroys homes near popular beach areaNORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — A coastal wildfire spread early Thursday toward one of the busiest tourist stretches in South Carolina after destroying more than three dozen homes.

January 22nd, 2009 PANAJI - On the heels of a warning issued by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) about the steady erosion of Goa's most popular beach due to the presence of a beached cargo ship, two state government agencies have also raised concerns about the socio-environmental fallout. Even as the NIO, in its report on the shoreline, had confirmed that nearly 1.1 km of the beach along the Candolim-Sinquerim stretch had already been eroded, the administration has warned of a potential catastrophe, if action is not taken promptly.

January 21st, 2009 PANAJI - Run aground on a stormy night eight years ago at the picturesque Sinquerim beach, the precariously placed MV River Princess is now threatening to erode Goa's most well-known beach stretch, according to a report by a marine research organisation. The Panaji-based National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), in its latest report on shoreline changes in the state, has concluded that non-removal of the beached cargo ship would have serious repercussions for the popular shoreline, which is the nerve centre of the tourism industry in Goa.

January 11th, 2009 PANAJI - In a sudden crackdown on beach-side rave parties Sunday night, the Goa police arrested four persons including a German and a Russian national. 'We arrested a German and a Russian, who are notorious for holding such parties in the beach belt,' Mapusa Police Inspector C.L.