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The Thousand Oaks teen is reported to be in good health after being plucked from her damaged vessel 2,000 nautical miles off western Australia.
Reporting from Sydney, Australia — —
Abby Sunderland, the 16-year-old solo sailor who ran into trouble in the middle of the Indian Ocean this week, has been rescued.

Sunderland was reported to be in good health after being plucked from her damaged vessel 2,000 nautical miles off western Australia by the crew of the French fishing ship the Ile De La Reunion at 7.45pm AEST.

The crew of the Ile De La Reunion, a considerably larger vessel than Sunderland’s Wild Eyes, dispatched a smaller boat to pick her up.
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UTRECHT, Netherlands – A Dutch court ordered authorities to take temporary guardianship of a 13-year-old girl on Friday, delaying her plan to sail solo around the world until psychologists can assess her capacity to undertake such a risky voyage.

Judges said Laura Dekker would face both mental and physical risks if she were allowed to go ahead with the two-year trip in her 26-foot (8-meter) boat named Guppy.

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A keyboardist for the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd has died at his northeast Florida home.

Keyboard player Billy Powell called 911 about 12:55 a.m. Wednesday saying he was having trouble breathing. Rescue crews performed CPR, but he was pronounced dead at 1:52 a.m., said Orange Park Police Lt. Mark Cornett.

Powell, 56, who has a history of heart problems, missed a Tuesday appointment with his doctor for a cardiac evaluation. A heart attack is suspected. No autopsy will be performed because Powell’s cardiologist will sign the death certificate, Cornett said.

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The Giants suspended superstar Plaxico Burress for the rest of the season yesterday, ending any chance for the troubled wide receiver to help his teammates repeat as Super Bowl champs.

Burress, who shot himself in the leg while drinking in a Manhattan nightclub Saturday morning, is ineligible to play in the team’s remaining four games or the postseason.

“This is an important time for him to take care of his body and heal up, and also deal with the very serious legal consequences and other issues in his life,” Giants President John Mara said.

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As Giants receiver Plaxico Burress was arraigned Monday on two separate counts of a weapons charge, harsh reactions and new questions arose about the events early Saturday morning, when Burress accidentally shot himself in the thigh at a Manhattan nightclub with an illegal handgun.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the Police Department criticized the Giants, who they said neglected to notify the authorities of the shooting, and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where Burress was treated, for failing to call the police about his gun-related injury, as state law requires.

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GOLFER John Daly’s life continues to unravel after the dual major winner spent the night in jail after police responded to calls for assistance with an intoxicated person at a Hooters restaurant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Daly, who had earlier lost consciousness, refused to go to a hospital, leading emergency medical personnel to summon police at 2.17am on Sunday, according to the police report.

Daly “appeared extremely intoxicated and unco-operative,” police said in their report of the incident. Daly is a “regular” at Hooters, one of his sponsors, according to the golfer’s website.

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The Dave Matthews Band brass has been silenced.

Saxophonist LeRoi Moore, one of the founding members of the Virginia-based jam band, died Tuesday afternoon at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, E! News has confirmed. He was 46.

Exact cause of death is unknown, but it was due to complications from critical injuries that Moore sustained in a June 30 ATV crash on his farm near Charlottesville, Va.

Moore, who suffered a punctured lung and broken ribs at the time, had not performed with DMB since his accident, but had returned to L.A.—where the band is performing tonight at Staples Center—to begin an “intensive physical rehabilitation program,” according to a statement released by DMB, which also said that Moore’s fellow bandmates are “deeply saddened” by the loss.

(CNN) — Comic actor Bernie Mac died early Saturday of complications from pneumonia, according to a family member and his publicist. He was 50.

He had been hospitalized in Chicago, Illinois, for more than a week with the lung infection.

Danica Smith, the comedian’s publicist, had said Thursday that Mac’s condition was “stable,” The Associated Press reported.

“When I got the call this morning, it was just devastating news,” said Chicago Sun-Times columnist Stella Foster. “Let’s face it: Bernie Mac was one of a kind. He was the best of the best in terms of giving you a good laugh.”

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TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP)- The lifeguards on Tybee Island were
kept busy over the weekend.

In a two-hour period Sunday, lifeguards rescued 20 to 25 swimmers caught in dangerous rip currents. There were no injuries.

Rip currents form when powerful water currents flow away from
shore and become trapped in a gap between the beach and a sandbar.

Experts say that instead of fighting the current swimmers should
swim parallel to the shore. Once clear of the outgoing riptide, swimmers can go straight in to shore.

Rip currents have been a problem for the past several days along the east coast of the U.S. as swells from what was once Hurricane Bertha have increased the surf.