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Kevin Roderick • April 20 2006 10:07 AM

Exhilarated after an AA meeting, Daniel Barth celebrated two years of sobriety by jumping off the Manhattan Beach pier, intending to swim to shore. He didn't make it.

Runner up: A four-year-old girl drowned in a backyard swimming pool in Riverside while her mother was at Bible study.

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