The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US A murder investigation has been launched after a paddleboarder’s body was mysteriously discovered in rural Maine.

Sunshine "Sunny" Stewart, 48, was found dead at Crawford Pond in Union on Thursday after police were contacted to say she had gone missing, Maine State Police said. An autopsy was then conducted, which determined her death was a homicide, police said.

A woman who disappeared while paddleboarding in Maine was murdered, authorities have ruled. Sunshine Stewart, 48, was reported missing on Thursday, July 3, after she went paddleboarding on Crawford Pond in Maine’s Knox region, Maine State Police said in a statement this week.