By Associated Press - Tuesday, October 15, 2019

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Yellowstone County officials say a Billings man drowned in the Yellowstone River over the weekend.

Deputy Coroner Richard Hoffman says 67-year-old James Karls died Sunday. He had been fishing with a child.

The Billings Fire Department and Yellowstone County deputies responded to a report of an unconscious man in the water at about 8:15 a.m. Sunday. Efforts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.



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