Incidents like the one that severely injured a 6-year-old girl at a wading pool in Minneapolis are unlikely if a newer generation of drain cover is installed, said Tim Shiek, owner of a Fargo pool ...

The Portage Community Pool may be forced to close indefinitely if a mechanical part, needed to bring the pool's drain into compliance with new federal safety standards, isn't obtained and installed ...

The parents of a 6-year-old girl disemboweled by a pool drain at the Minneapolis Golf Club have sued the club and the manufacturer of the pool’s faulty drain cover, claiming their daughter will ...

Members of Congress target regulators they say weakened pool-drain safety law. June 11, 2010 — -- On Thursday, four members of Congress sent letters of protest to the federal commissioners who ...

Laise Pegorini Franzen suffered cardiac arrest this week when she became trapped underwater for a long time at her home. @liane.cortinare/Newsflash A 10-year-old Brazilian girl was reportedly killed ...

Drains in 1 million backyard pools may pose drowning risk, say feds. May 26, 2011 — -- In its largest ever pool drain cover recall, the government's lead consumer watchdog has recalled almost 1 ...

Abigail Taylor, the 6-year-old disemboweled by an uncovered pool drain last summer, is recovering from a multi-organ transplant at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Surgeons transplanted a small ...

DECATUR – Decatur Park District officials will examine the Fairview Park pool drainage system after a routine backwash led to excessive chlorine being dumped into Stevens Creek. While the pool has ...

ROCKFORD — The Illinois Department of Public Health has closed up to two dozen public and commercial swimming pools in Winnebago and Boone counties that it says are not in compliance with federal and ...