At least 65 migrants drowned on Friday when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian coast after they had left Libya hoping to invade Europe, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said. The state-run Tunis Afrique Presse agency gave a death toll of at least 70 people. It was one the deadliest shipwrecks involving migrants trying to reach Europe this year. “This is a tragic and terrible... 

At his deceased 19 year-old daughters’ eulogy, Dr. Clemens Ladenburger, a lawyer for the European Commission, was asking for donations to be made to Bangladesh. The prime suspect in the raping and drowning of his daughter is a “17 year-old” Afghan man, who illegally came into Europe in 2015. Apparently even Afghanistan didn’t want him, as he was expelled from the country, or so he claims. Ladenburger’s... 

Hero: Tristin Saghin sits in his grandmother's back yard where he saved his two-year-old sister's life when she was found floating in the pool. ‘I would do anything for her’: Boy, 9, saves two-year-old sister from drowning by giving CPR. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. And though pint-sized hero Tristin Saghin is still small, his quick-thinking actions that saved his sister’s... 

The Rockland area is mourning the loss of the man who had hoped to make the city the heart of a new energy industry. Matthew Simmons, a longtime summer resident of Rockport, died Sunday night at a summer house on North Haven island. He was 67 years old. According to the Medical Examiner’s office, Simmons drowned. A statement earlier in the day from the Ocean Energy institute in Rockland,...