Sports People

Coast Guard aircraft suspended the search in the Pacific Ocean off Morro Bay, Calif., for outdoors writer Jim Bertken. The writer, from The Daily News of Los Angeles, is missing from a fishing charter. … Franzi van Almsick won her fifth gold medal at the European swimming championships in Vienna, Austria, as she anchored the German medley relay team to victory. … Seventeen-year-old Kevin Dowling, a Mount Carmel High School football player who received a liver transplant following a heat stroke two weeks ago during football practice, died at University of Chicago Hospital in Chicago.