ST. LOUIS – The fish are gone, and a sinkhole is being blamed for the empty Benton Park Lake. Where did the water go, and the fish that swam in it? The City of St. Louis and the Missouri Department of ...

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...

In June 2025, a rumor (archived) circulated online that mysterious sinkholes had appeared in Lake Superior. One posting from a Facebook page named End Time News began: "BREAKING NEWS — June 18, 2025.

A maintenance worker clears away debris from the bottom of Benton Park Lake with a bulldozer in St. Louis on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, after the 1-acre body of water drained. ST. LOUIS — By late last ...

Numerous sinkholes have been swallowing the park and the 1-acre lake for at least the past year, and officials don't know why. Workers previously told 5 On Your Side that the city was planning to hire ...

Discover the incredible story of Lake Peigneur, a drilling site turned disaster zone. In 1980, Texaco's accidental drill hit an underground salt mine, creating a vortex that swallowed the entire lake!