Crime

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) An investigation into the drowning of an 18-year-old freshman on Northern Michigan University’s varsity women’s soccer team confirms that no one saw or heard her in distress in the water.

The school released preliminary Thursday information from its investigation into the Nov. 30 death of Arianna Alioto at the school’s Physical Education Instructional Facility in Marquette. Officials say autopsy results are expected in January and there’s no indication of foul play.

The school has said Alioto was alone in the pool when she was discovered after a team workout and a lifeguard had left when the workout ended.

Public safety director Mike Bath says investigators interviewed soccer team members, the coach, the lifeguard and rescuers.

The freshman midfielder from Columbia, Mo., redshirted this fall while recovering from a knee injury.

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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) A coroner in southwestern Illinois has ruled that the death of a 62-year-old highway worker was accidental.

Madison County Coroner Steve Nonn says Dennis Goebel of Dorsey died of asphyxia Oct. 3 when he was accidentally backed over by a Fort Russell Township dump truck. Nobody saw the accident, but his co-workers found him under the truck. Goebel died at the scene.

Nonn says a screening of Goebel’s blood showed only a prescription drug at what the coroner called “therapeutic levels.”

Goebel was working on a township highway department crew that was repairing culverts in the community of Meadowbrook, about 20 miles northeast of St. Louis.

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