Ohio water park says staffing OK when boy drowned

An Ohio indoor water park that bills itself as the nation's largest says lifeguard staffing was appropriate when a 3-year-old boy disappeared from his mother's sight and drowned in 3-foot-deep water.

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Brawl at Fla. Water Park Wounds 2 Teens

Gunfire erupted during a brawl in the parking lot of a central Florida water park Sunday in which two teenage brothers were injured, police said.

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Huge Water Park Planned for Ariz. Desert

By tapping rivers and sucking water from deep underground, developers have covered Arizona with carpets of Bermuda grass and dotted the parched landscape with swimming pools, golf courses and lakeshore homes.

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Authorities closed the Big Splash Water Park for the night after hundreds of youths brawled inside the park and in its parking lot Wednesday evening, police said.

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An Osceola County man is in the Orange County Jail after three girls said he touched them inappropriately while they were at the Aquatica water park.

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A 14-year-old girl says she was sexually assaulted in the wave pool at Wet 'n Wild just after midnight Sunday and, so far, police don't know who did it.

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New "Family-friendlier" water park to open.

Provo-Lony, UT Catering to the conservative tastes of the upper-mid-southwest, AquaGroup Corp plans to open a "family-friendlier" water park that will feature not just separate pools for men and women, but also clothed sea mammals.

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As a veteran of the amusement and water park business, Bill Koch is very much aware of the trend toward indoor water parks. But for now, the president of award-winning Holiday World and Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus, Ind., prefers his water fun to be in the sun.

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