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Deputies said Stanley Wayman, 54, and Michael Katchuk, 31, both from Binghamton, were out fishing around 5:30 Saturday night when the ice gave way beneath them and they fell into the frigid water.

St. Landry Parish sheriff's deputies say a 15-year-old teenager accidentally shot himself in the head and died.

A missing hiker and his dog have been rescued from the foothills of the Sierra on the southwest edge of Reno thanks to deputies in a sheriff's helicopter that spotted smoke from his small signal fire.

A sheriff's deputy photographs an airboat that was carrying sheriff's deputies Wednesday afternoon when it collided with a tour boat.

A northwest Wisconsin man has been arrested after deputies found animal skeletons and malnourished animals on property he was supposed to be tending.

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and firefighters have rescued nine teenage hikers who got stuck in mountains above Pasadena, including one who fell into a waterfall and had to be airlifted out.

Mendocino County Sheriff's deputies say a local surfer and an abalone diver died in the ocean over the weekend.

Alameda County sheriff's deputies are combing through missing person reports and learning about local transients after human remains were found Sunday afternoon in the hills of unincorporated Pleasanton.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies are searching for a teenager who went "street surfing" on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.

A Marin County man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he threatened to shoot sheriff's deputies and wildlife rangers.